Biographie

"Romain Delaville is a Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Oberlin College and Conservatory. Winner of Le Prix Recherche au présent 2017, he received his Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. In his dissertation, entitled “Face Value: Physiognomy, Portraiture, and the Making of Subjectivity in Francophone Literature and Visual Culture,” he examines how recent Afro-Caribbean artists have approached the face as a site to redefine racial difference and explore what it means to be human [...]" (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17409292.2018.1500121 - 02.2019)