Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
nikhitao@uchicago.edu
Wieboldt 105A
773.834.2836
PhD, Harvard University, 2022
Teaching at UChicago since 2024
Research Interests:
Contemporary francophone and world literature, critical race studies and decolonial theory, archipelagic studies, environmental humanities (including oceanic humanities), and medical humanities
Selected Publications
- "Archipelagic Stories, Anguilliform Resistances." Monsoon: Journal of the Indian Ocean Rim, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 48-57, 2024.
- “Les Enjeux de la chair corallienne chez Khal Torabully.” Nouvelles Études Francophones, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 119–131, 2023.
- “Rencontres du postcolonialisme et de l’écocritique.” Special issue of Nouvelles Études Francophones, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 17-145, 2023. Co-edited with Dr. Mona El-Khoury.
- “An Archipelagic Node in Global Migration? The Stakes of Comparison and Irony in Nathacha Appanah’s Tropique de la violence.” Comparative Literature, vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 219–232, June 2022.
Recent Courses in RLL
- FREN 24555/34555, CEGU 24555/34555, RDIN 24555/34555 Ecological Explorations of the Francophone World (Winter 2025)
- FREN 26770, CEGU 26770, CMLT 26771, RDIN 26770 Stories of Oceans and Archipelagos (Spring 2025)
Subject Area:
French and Francophone Studies