Véronique Bragard

Professeure

SSH/FIAL -- Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Letters

SSH/FIAL/ELAL -- Ecole de langues et lettres

SSH/INCA -- Institut des civilisations, arts et lettres (INCA)

Postmail address

FIAL
Place Cardinal Mercier 31/L3.03.31
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

veronique.bragard@uclouvain.be

INCA

Phone

+32 10 47 49 32

Other

+32 10 47 49 32

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