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Global Studies: Paris, France
Global Challenges in Postcolonial France

June 29 - August 2, 2008

Global Studies-Paris, France Instructor Bio

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Dominic Thomas is the Chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at UCLA, and is a member of the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Inter-Departmental Program in Global Studies. In Spring 2005, Professor Thomas was the Lead Instructor for the first ever Global Studies course taught at UCLA. In Winter and Spring 2006, he will team-teach Global Studies 100A and 100B. He also teached courses in French, Comparative Literature, the Honors Program, European Studies, and Fiat Lux (for which I received a Faculty Recognition Award in 2005). He is a specialist of sub-Saharan African literatures and cultures and of immigration in Europe. He has published "Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa" (Indiana University Press, 2002), and his new book "Black France" is forthcoming from Indiana University Press.