Arlette Frund

Arlette Frund is Professor Emerita at the University of Tours, France. 

Her scholarly and teaching specializations are in African American literature and culture. She is the author of Phillis Wheatley et Olaudah Equiano: Figures pionnières de la diaspora atlantique (Michel Houdiard Editeur 2006) and of numerous significant articles on African American women writers. She is the editor of the volume Politiques du sensible dans le monde afro-américain et diasporique (L’Harmattan 2015).

She has organized numerous international conferences and symposiums for the Center of African American and Diasporic Studies, Paris and the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University.