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About Amber Bal
I am a fifth year PhD Candidate at Cornell University. My dissertation centers on the representation of rural spaces in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Literature and is organised through a place-based chapter structure (1. The Village, 2. The Catholic Mission, 3. Serer Agricultural Hinterlands 4. The Railway) . As such, my broader research interests include twentieth and twenty-first century Francophone and Wolophone literature, environmental studies and ecocriticism, political economic analyses of empire (primitive accumulation), visual culture (representations of landscape), nineteenth to twenty-first century French anthropological literature, travel writing, ethnographic surrealism. Prior to commencing at Cornell, I received a BA with first-class honours from the University of Oxford in French and Classics. For this reason, a large portion of my research still treats on Classics and classical reception (most especially tragedy and pastoral poetry).
Amber Bal is a PhD Candidate at Cornell University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Amber:
October 24, 2023
Transnational French Studies
On the 16th October 2023, I met with Claire Launchbury and Charles Forsdick to discuss the recent publication of Transnational French Studies (Liverp…