Valérie Loichot

Valérie Loichot is a French-American academic, writer, and professor originally from Damprichard, France, currently serving as the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of French and English at Emory University, where she chairs the Department of French and Italian and is a core member of Comparative Literature. She earned her Ph.D. in French from Louisiana State University in 1996 and specializes in Francophone and Anglophone literature, culture, theory, and aesthetics of the Americas, including the Greater Caribbean and U.S. South, with a focus on authors like Édouard Glissant. An award-winning teacher and author, she has published three books: Orphan Narratives (2007), The Tropics Bite Back (2013, winner of the MLA Scaglione Prize), and Water Graves (2020).