Véronique Bragard received a M.A. from the University of Warwick and her Ph.D. from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium). She is currently a Lecturer in Contemporary and Comparative Literature at the Université catholique de Louvain. Her work Transoceanic Dialogues: Coolitude in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Literatures (Peter Lang, 2008) establishes new comparative dialogues between the Caribbean and the Mascarene Islands and between francophone and anglophone literatures. She has published on Indo-Caribbean literature, coolitude and the creative works of Ananda Devi and Khal Torabully in several journals in English and French. Her research interests include postcolonial literatures, cultural encounters in literature and the representation of trauma and exile in literary texts/graphic novels.
Véronique Bragard - Université Catholique de Louvain
