2023-24 New Faculty

Eric (he/they) is an interdisciplinary scholar of global francophone island literatures whose research examines queer, trans, and Indigenous gender studies in the areas of embodiment, storytelling, and communal care studies. He teaches courses on francophone LGBTQIA+ and women’s writing, comparative island/archipelagic studies, creolization, trans and queer studies, and maritime epistemologies. Their writing has appeared in Women in French Studies, The French Review, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and ASAP/Journal. His dissertation complies and examines narratives of queer and trans representation from Mauritius, Madagascar,Kanaky/New Caledonia, and Te Ao Mā’ohi/French Polynesia while analyzing queer and trans influences on concepts of transition, intimacy, and care access. These Indigenous or creolized knowledges find resonance with maritime epistemologies nascent in archipelagic locales to implicate gender-diverse ways of being at the heart of the planet’s modes of survival and continuance.
 
Before arriving at Williams, Eric taught at the Pennsylvania State University before completing their dual-title PhD in French and Francophone Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies in 2023. In addition to their academic work, Eric enjoys film, live theater and drag, food documentaries, crochet, playing the piano, and team trivia.