Aude Dieude, Doctoral Student Romance Studies/French

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Specialties:

French Studies
Diaspora Studies
Caribbean Studies
Cultural Studies
Decolonial and Post-colonial Studies
Gender Studies, Feminism, Women Studies, Queer Studies
Comparative Studies: Translation, Travel Narratives, Trans-Culturality

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Born in Paris, Aude Dieudé is bilingual in English and French and has worked within academia, U.N. organizations and NGOs in the United States, Japan, and Switzerland. Passionate about bridging the humanities with human rights and humanitarian action, she decided to collaborate with a wide range of professional actors across these fields. After receiving her PhD from Duke University in the US, she joined the team of the Research and Right to Development Division of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights based in Geneva and thereafter the United Nations University in Tokyo. Aude is currently working in Lausanne with Terre des hommes, the largest Swiss NGO focusing on children’s rights, and has recently participated in the first leading international conference on humanitarian innovation in Oxford, UK. Throughout these professional experiences, Aude Dieudé has honed her advising, communication, research and teaching skills. During the spring of 2013 for instance, she has taught at Duke University a self-designed interdisciplinary seminar titled "Black France: An Unveiled Story." This course explored the ambiguous and complex relationship of metropolitan France toward its black population in law, literature, films, music, sport, and the visual arts. “Black France: An Unveiled Story” was noticed for its teaching excellence, and its course evaluations were among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors at Duke University in the categories of “Intellectual Stimulation” or “Quality of Course.” Aude Dieudé has presented her research in Canada, Switzerland, South Africa, the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. She has recently published a book chapter focusing on “Defending Freedom and Human Rights: Teaching Toussaint Louverture and Haiti’s History” in Reimagining the Caribbean: Conversations among the Creole, English, French, and Spanish Caribbean (2014). For more information, feel free to contact Aude Dieudé at: aude.dieude@gmail.com

Areas of Interest:

• French and Francophone Literature
• Gender, Race, and Slavery in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
• Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Writings in French and Caribbean Corpus

Curriculum Vitae

Aude Dieudé has taught in the spring of 2013 a self-designed interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar titled "Black France: An Unveiled Story." This course explored the ambiguous and complex relationship of metropolitan France toward its black population from the seventeenth century to the present in literature, films, music, sport, and the visual arts. “Black France: An Unveiled Story” was noticed for its teaching excellence, and its course evaluations were among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors at Duke University in the categories of “Intellectual Stimulation” or “Quality of Course.” For more information about Aude’s research and teaching experiences, feel free to visit her website: http://sites.duke.edu/aude/ and to contact her directly at: aude.dieude@duke.edu Thank you!