Alice Chaudemanche, winner of an SHS Île-de-France research chair
IDwoloF - 'bitim-réew' (out-of-country) Wolof literature: places, links and practices around Wolof literature in Île-de-France
Starting from the observation that, on the one hand, the Wolof community is very present in IDF but highly fragmented and little studied, and that, on the other, a growing number of students and learners are interested in the Wolof language and culture, the IDwoloF project aims to gain a better understanding of the literary practices of the Wolof diaspora in the IDF and to create links and exchanges between the various publics involved and interested in Wolof literature in this territory.
The research team, made up of a senior lecturer from Inalco, student interns and a postdoctoral fellow, will work to document literary practices via field surveys and organize cultural events around Wolof literature at Inalco and beyond, in partnership with cultural spaces in the region.
The expected results are both scientific (articles, online research notebook) and in the realm of general public dissemination (events, documentary film).
An alumna of the Ens de Lyon, agrégée de Lettres Modernes, Alice Chaudemanche gradually specialized in African literature. An international civic service in 2015 led her down the path of learning Wolof, which she began in Senegal and consolidated at Inalco. In 2021, she defended her doctoral thesis at Sorbonne Nouvelle University entitled Romans (en) wolof : traduction et configuration d'un genre, awarded the prix de thèse Afrique et diasporas 2022. After teaching at Sorbonne Nouvelle University as a temporary teaching and research associate in the didactics of literature for FLE, since 2022 she has been teaching at Inalco as a lecturer in Wolof language and literature.
In an interview from the I-DEA collection (Illustration et Documentation audiovisuelles des Études Aréales), Alice Chaudemanche looks back on her career and research themes.
Directed by Kexin Zhang (DIRVED, Inalco) and Duncan Frénéhard (TICE) (02/02/2023, 25 mn)