Foreign Languages and Literature Faculty at SUNY Plattsburgh - Jean Ouedraogo

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Foreign Languages and Literature Faculty - Jean Ouedraogo

Assistant Professor and Chair

Dr. Jean Ouedraogo teaches French language as well as African and Caribbean Francophone literatures and cultures. His current research interests include African Cinema, literary translation and Quebec oral traditions.

Education

• Ph.D. in Romance Languages, The University of Georgia, Athens, June 1997
• Graduate Certificate in Translation (English>French), Georgia State University, Atlanta, June 1993
• M.A. in French, The University of Georgia, Athens, June 1992
• Maitrise es Lettres d'Anglais, Universite de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, July 1989
• Licence es Lettres d'Anglais, Universite de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, June 1988

Teaching and Research Areas

• French language
• Francophone African and Caribbean Literatures and Cultures
• Francophone African and Caribbean Cinemas
• Interdisciplinary issues across La Francophonie and Literary Translation

Scholarly Publications

Dr. Jean Ouedraogo has published two books, two book chapters, and many refereed articles in Canada, France, Burkina Faso, and the United States. He is currently coordinating a dossier on the late Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma for Research in African Literatures and co-editing a book on Pan-African Cinema.

• Books
  • Cinema et Litterature du Burkina Faso. De la Singularite a l'Universalite. Montreal: editions CIDIHCA, 2005; Ouagadougou: editions Sankofa & Gurli, 2005. 328 p.
  • Maryse Conde et Ahmadou Kourouma: Griots de l'indicible. Peter Lang: New York, 2004. 192 p.
• Articles, book chapters, and book reviews:
  • "Un fleuve metis: Entretien avec Mama Keita." L'Afrique fait son cinema. Montreal, Memoire d'encrier, 2006, 175-190.
  • "Entretien avec Ben Diogaye Beye." The French Review (special issue on Cinemas) 79:6 (May 2006), 1298--1308.
  • "Entretien avec Jean-Marc Massie." The French Review (special issue on Quebec) 78:6 (May 2005), 1216-1226.
  • "Ahmadou Kourouma and the Ivorian Crisis." Research in African Literatures 35:3 (Fall 2004), 1-5.
  • "Baliseurs du conte. Portraits de conteurs." Spirale Magazine 192 (Septembre-Octobre 2003): 34-35. (Quebec)
  • "Le jeu de l'ici et de l'ailleurs: discours sur la condition postcoloniale dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Kourouma." in Identites postcoloniales et discours dans les cultures francophones (Ed.) Marie-Ange Somdah. L'Harmattan: Paris, 2003. pp.65-81.
  • "Toponymie thematique et reperes topographiques du roman burkinabe." in Ecritures du Burkina Faso (Ed.) Marie-Ange Somdah. L'Harmattan: Paris 2003. pp.99-126.
  • "L'espace scriptural chez Kourouma ou la tragicomedie du roman," in Ahmadou Kourouma, ecrivain polyvalent, a special issue of Presence Francophone, No. 59 (2002): 69-91.
  • Nine (9) entries on African authors in the Routledge Encyclopedia of African Literature (winter 2002/2003).
  • "Le vrai et l'ivraie dans Le diseur de verite d'Ahmadou Kourouma." L'Annuaire theatral: Revue Quebecoise d'etudes theatrales, 31:1 (May 2002), 45-64.
  • "Compte rendu de En attendant le vote des betes sauvages." Etudes Francophones XV:2 (2000): 255-260.
  • "Entretien avec Ahmadou Kourouma." The French Review 74:4 (March 2001): 772-785.
  • "Interview with Ahmadou Kourouma." Callaloo 24:3 (Fall 2000):1338-1348.
  • "Rescuing the Human in Poller's Humanism." The American Translator Association Chronicle, June 1999, pp. 44-47.
  • "Translating the politically and culturally sensitive." The American Translator Association Chronicle, May 1998, pp.27-32.
  • "Dissimulation et revelation dans le theatre de Paul Scarron." Cahiers du Dix-septieme siecle,VII, 1 (1997): 11-22.
  • "Defis de traduction et delits d'interprete dans deux romans africains." Etudes Francophones XI, 1 (1996): 53-69.
    

Awards & Distinctions

• UUP Joint Labor-Management Campus Grant (Fall 2005) to train SUNY (Plattsburgh, Potsdam, Delhi) French and Spanish faculty members in ACTFL OPI. Execution April 24-27, 2006. Value $ 24,000
• Chancellor's Award for Internationalization (Fall 2005) for study abroad in Martinique (Spring 2006). Value $ 8,000
• NEH Summer Institute (2005) to study African Cinema in Dakar, Senegal. June 8-July 6, 2005. Value $ 3,000
• Presidential Research Award (Summer 2005) to support research in African Cinema and Literatures activities. Value $ 3,600
• Nuala Drescher Award, SUNY-wide and UUP sponsored, this sabbatical leave (Spring 2003) allowed me to conduct interviews with Burkinabe filmmakers and writers in Ouagadougou, Boston, and Montreal.
• AATF Quebec Summer Research Scholarship, awarded by the American Association of Teachers of French and the Quebec government. (2001)
• Blue Key Honor Society, University of Georgia, 1997.
• Life Member of Pi Delta Phi Societe d'Honneur Francaise. Since May 1991.

Professional Memberships

Dr. Jean Ouedraogo is member of the American Association of Teachers of French, the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, the African Studies Association, and the African Literature Association. He serves as a Canadian Studies Associate.

Contact Jean Ouedraogo

Office: Champlain Valley Hall 315
Phone: (518) 564-3833
E-mail: jean.ouedraogo@plattsburgh.edu