Rate Professor Jean-Christophe Cloutier

Academic Background

Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University; M.A., SUNY Buffalo; B.A. in Liberal Arts and English, Concordia University, Montréal.

Research Interests

20th- and 21st-century American literature; comics studies; film; Jack Kerouac's bilingualism and biculturalism; African American literature lifecycles; Harlem Renaissance.

Appointments

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania; Undergraduate Chair, English.

Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for 'Continental Kerouac: Bilingualism, Translation, and the Franco-American Experience'; MLA’s Matei Calinescu Prize; MSA 2019 First Book Prize.

Publications

• Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature, 2019.
• Editor, La vie est d'hommage, Éditions du Boréal, 2016.
• Translator, Kerouac's French novellas in The Unknown Kerouac, Library of America, 2016.
• Contributor to Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem, Steidl, 2016.

Additional Contributions

Consultant for Gordon Parks exhibition; PoemTalk on Kerouac's poetry; 60-second lecture on comics and pandemic living; quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer on comics collections.