Delphine Gras's Profile

Gras, Delphine (Ph.D.)

Associate Professor, French

Department of Language & Literature

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Delphine Gras is an Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Literature, where she teaches a variety of language and literature courses. A dedicated educator, she has earned FGCU’s 2016 Teaching in Excellence Award and the 2022 Student Success Champion Award. In her research, Dr. Gras specializes in literature of the Americas and the African Diaspora. She was a finalist for the 2011 Vanderbilt ICI book competition on the African Diaspora and has published on various topics including service learning, Shay Youngblood, Nicolás Guillén, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and Gisèle Pineau. Dr. Gras recently coedited Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works—a book, which explores the unique ways in which this prominent francophone author redefines the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to gender, race, history, and Antillean identity. Her latest project is a monograph examining the contributions of francophone, hispanophone, and anglophone Black women writers during the first half of the twentieth century.

Education
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- Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle
- M.A. University of Washington, Seattle and Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
- B.A. Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
Specialties
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- Twentieth-century literature of the Americas and the African Diaspora
- French and Francophone culture and Literature
- Critical Race Theory
- Gender Studies
Publications
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Books
- Connell Lisa and Delphine Gras, eds. Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023.
- New World Griottes: A Comparative Study of Black Women Writers during the New Negro Era. In progress.
- Revisiting the Past in the Age of Posts: Re-memory in the Works of Contemporary African American and Caribbean Women Writers. In progress.
Book Chapters
- “No Inspection, No Outrage: Shifting Moral Cartographies in Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Without Inspection.’” American Fury: Collective Action and the Politics of Moral Outrage. McFarland Press, forthcoming.
- “More Than a Phrase: Fighting Silence and Objectification in Danticat’s Claire of the Sealight (2013).” Narrating History, Home, and Nation. University Press of Mississippi, 2022: 212-227.
- "How to promote Cultural Awareness Through Service-Learning in a Non-Required Course.” Language Beyond the Classroom: A Guide to Service Learning for World Languages Curriculum. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2018.
- “In the Steps of Hughes and Baldwin: Traveling Griots in Shay Youngblood’s Black Girl in Paris.” Diasporas, Cultures of Mobilities, ‘Race’” African Americans and the black Diaspora. Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2016: 209-225.
Journal Articles
- “Revisiting the Past in the Age of Posts: Rememory in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child and Gisèle Pineau’s Femmes des Antilles.” Contemporary Women's Writing, Special Issue: Global Morrison 13.3 (2019): 270-286.
- "Post What? Disarticulating Post-Discourses in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child” Humanities 2016, 5.4 (2016): 80. Available.
- “El son de los preteridos y los olvidados: Reimagining Blackness in Nicolás Guillén’s Early Poetry.” CLR James Journal 21 (Fall 2015): 17-36.
- “Hearing Voices, Writing Music: Shay Youngblood’s Reconfiguration of the Griot.” JEAL 3 (2013): 96-126.
- “‘I’ll Rise’:Rememory, Hope and the Creation of a New Public Sphere in Ben Harper’s Music.”NAES Ethnic Studies Review 31.1 (Summer 2008): 19-31.
Reviews
- Review of Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial by Raphael Dalleo and Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age by Lara Putnam. Kritikon Litterarum 43.3–4 (2016).
- Review of Darker than Blue by Paul Gilroy. Kritikon Litterarum 1-2 (2012).
- Review of Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood. Afro-Americans in New York Life and History. Afro-American Historical Association of the Niagara Frontier, 29.1 (January 2005): 91-94.
Grants & Awards
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- Student Success Champion Award. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2022.
- Dr. Helen Mamarchev Distinguished Advisor Award Nominee. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022.
- “Emerald Overall Best Course-Based Award.” Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2022, 2021, 2017.
- “Standing For Social Justice” Award.” Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2022, 2021.
- "Most Engaged Award." Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers –2019.
- Student Associates for a Greener Environment (S.A.G.E.) Mini-grant Program, 2017-2018, 2018-2019 and 2020-2021.
- Diversity and Inclusion Award. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2017, 2018.
- The National Society of Leadership and Success Excellence in Teaching Award – Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2017.
- "Children Are Our Future Award." Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers –2017.
- "Emerald Overall Best Course-Based Award." Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers –2017.
- Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2016.
- Individual Faculty Service Excellence Award. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2016.
- "Outstanding One Class-One Project" Service Learning Award. Office of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2014.
- Tournées Festival Grant. Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers – 2011-2012, 2012-2013.
- Finalist for the Issues in Critical Investigation: Manuscript Competition. Vanderbilt University Press with The New Negro Flow: Musical Discourse of the Literary Griots of the Americas– 2011.

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