Specialty: XXth Century French Literature; Transgender Studies; Continental Philosophy
Mat Fournier (he/him) is an Associate Professor of French and an affiliate member of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. His research focuses on modernist literature, with a particular interest in the articulation between trans studies and political theory. His research has been published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing; Simone de Beauvoir Studies; L'Esprit Créateur; Transgender Studies Quarterly , and in edited volumes such as Deleuze on Children and Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment.
His book, Dysphoric Assemblage: Writing Gender in the Interwar Years , forthcoming at Columbia University Press, looks at French modernist literature to explore the emergence of modern gender.
Before pursuing an academic career in the US, Mat worked as a freelance author and journalist in France for National Geographic France (Paris) and Milan Presse (Toulouse). In French, he has published Quand la Nature inspire la science [When Nature Inspires Science ], a book on ethnobiology.