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Place Cardinal Mercier 31/L3.03.31
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Véronique Bragard
Professeure
Veronique Bragard is an Associate Professor in Contemporary and Comparative Literature at the Universite catholique de Louvain. She received a M.A. from the University of Warwick and her Ph.D. from the Universite catholique de Louvain (Belgium). After a post-doctoral stay at UCLA with a BAEF fellowship, she published her work Transoceanic Dialogues: Coolitude in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Literatures (Peter Lang, 2008) which establishes new comparative dialogues between the Caribbean and the Mascarene Islands and between francophone and anglophone literatures. She has edited with Srilata Ravi Ecritures mauriciennes au féminin: penser l'altérité (L'Harmattan, 2011) and with Christophe Dony and Warren Rosenberg Portraying 9/11: Essays on Representations in Comics, Literature, Film and Theatre (McFarland, 2011). Her current projects include the Belgian colonial past and Congolese diaspora literature, as well as the representation of waste in world literatures.
I must confess I love what I do. It is a real challenge to have the opportunity to research and teach about questions that I think are of crucial importance to today's world. One of my over-riding goals as a teacher is to help students have a better understanding of the complexities and nuances related to the colonial past of Belgium and the way monuments memorialize the past. I also believe our world needs new dreams and nuances. Literature can teach us new ways of seeing the world. That is why I created the "Gender and Sustainability: Utopian/Dystopian literatures" class in which we look at how literature can imagine other futures. I try to show my students that they as individuals have an impact on the world around them, both positively and negatively. I want to help them grow and know what their values are
- Courses
Name ID Analyse de pratiques culturelles LCCR1211 Reading English literature LENG1124 American Landscapes and Memory LENG1125 The History of English Literature II LGERM1524 American literature and its Environments LGERM2724 Gender and Sustainability in Utopian/Dystopian Literatures in English LGERM2726 Comics, Adaptation and Decolonization LGERM2826 Interdisciplinary thematic seminar in literature LLMOD2802
2021
Bragard, Véronique ; Lambert, Alicia. (Un)drawing Belgium’s colonial monuments: Comics’ engagement with decolonial debates. In: Memory Studies, Vol. 14, no.6, p. 1185-1207 (2021). doi:10.1177/17506980211054292.
2020
Bragard, Véronique. Dévoiler les ténèbres de Conrad : à propos de l’oeuvre spectrale de Michael Matthys. In: collateral: Online Journal for Cross-Cultural Close Reading, Vol. 26 (2020).
2020
Bragard, Véronique ; Parent, Sabrina ; Amuri Mapala-Lutebele, Maurice. Entre évitement et ressassement : le spectre colonial belge dans les productions littéraires, artistiques et culturelles. Numéro thématique consacré au Passé colonial belge dans la littérature, les arts et la culture de l’extrême contemporain.. In: Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire, Vol. 97, no.3, p. -- (2020).
2018
Bragard, Véronique. Reclaiming the future: (In)visible dirt borders in Sammy Baloji’s mining photomontages. In: Social Dynamics : a journal of african studies, Vol. 44, no.1, p. 000-000 (2018).
2018
Bragard, Véronique ; Lindo, Karen. The sensorial redemption of the perpetrator’s tale Confession and social reintegration in Wilfried N’Sonde’s Le Silence des esprits. In: Journal of Romance Studies, Vol. 18, no.1, p. 1-23.
2017
Bragard, Véronique. Entre ambivalence et éthique :Les ténèbres conradiennes en bande dessinée. In: outre-mers: revue d'histoire, Vol. 104, no.392-393, p. 143-159 (2016).
2016
Bragard, Véronique ; Fabry, Geneviève. A Parrot without Feathers? Ventriloquy, Orality, and Nostalgia in Vargas Llosa's The Storyteller and pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale. In: Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 53, no.3, p. 454-477 (2016).
2016
Bragard, Véronique. Belgo-Congolese Transnational Comics Esthetics: Transcolonial Labor from Mongo Sisse's Bingo en Belgique to Cassiau-Haurie and Baruti's Madame Livingstone: Congo, la Grande Guerre (2014). In: Literature Compass, Vol. 13, no.5, p. 332-340 (2016).
2015
Bragard, Véronique. Out of Darkness? Bofane's Afropean Ndombolo Trickster Resistance in Mathematiques congolaises. In: Essays in French Literature and Culture, Vol. 52, no.1, p. 63-78 (2015).
2019
Sparks and Lustrous Words: Literary Walks, Cultural Pilgrimages. Essays in Honour of Guido Latré, éd. Arblaster, Paul ; Bertrand, Ingrid ; Bragard, Véronique ; Delabastita, Dirk (Transversalités; 9), Presses universitaires de Louvain: Louvain-La-Neuve, 2019. 9782875588487. 475 p.
2024
Bragard, Véronique. The Women behind the Woman behind the Man Women: Drawing Plural Collective Voices onto the Page in Emilie Plateau’s Noire. In: Margaret C.Flinn, Drawing (in) the feminine: Bande dessinée and women, 2024, p. 239-252. 978-0-8142-1514-2 (Accepté/Sous presse).
2022
Bragard, Véronique. Reading Testimony: Congolese Civil War and the Trauma of Rape in Dramatic Performances and Fiction. In: Rebecca Romdhani and Daria Tunca, Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World (Routledge Research in Poscolonial Literatures), Routledge: New York, 2022. 9781003110231.
2020
Bragard, Véronique. Between Communicative and Cultural Memory: The Figure of Lumumba as Decolonial Counterpoint in Nicolas Pitz’s Comics Les Jardins du Congo (2013). In: De Groof, Matthias, Lumumba in the Arts, Leuven University press: Leuven, 2020. 9789462701748 (Soumis).
2018
Bragard, Véronique ; Thewissen, Catherine. Expressionism, deformity, and abject texture in bande dessinée appropriations of Frankenstein. In: Véronique Bragard & Catherine Thewissen, Adapting Frankenstein: The monster's eternal lives in popular culture, Edited by Dennis R. Cutchins and Dennis R. Perry, 2018. 978-1-5261-0891-3.
2016
Bragard, Véronique. Le métissage afro-américain et expérimental de Mufuki Mukuna. In: Sarah Demart et Gia Abrassart, Créer en postcolonie 2010-2015 Voix et Dissidences belgo-congolaises, 2016. 9789074816496.
2015
Bragard, Véronique ; Tshitungu Kongolo, Antoine. Vus/Vues du Fleuve Congo: des écrits coloniaux aux voix congolaises contemporaines. In: Espaces Portuaires: L’Europe du Nord à l’interface des économies et des cultures 19e-20e siècle., Septentrion: Villeneuve d'Ascq, 2015, p. 177-188. 978-2-7574-0904-6.
2015
Bragard, Véronique. “Melancholia and Memorial Work: Representing the Congolese Past in Comics” . In: Binita Mehta & Pia Mukherji (Ed.), Postcolonial Comics: Text, Event, Identities, Routledge: London, 2015, p. 92-110. 978-0-415-73813-2.
2015
Bragard, Véronique ; Vanasten, Stéphanie. Lieve Joris and Jeffrey Tayler’s Journeys into the Congolese Interior: Travel writing and New modes of Enunciation. Congo Research Network (Cambridge University (African Studies Centre & Emmanuel College), du 11/06/2015 au 12/06/2015).
2022
Lahouste, Corentin ; Bragard, Véronique. Liv Strömquist, une bédéiste hors cases, 2022.