About

Luc Bonhomme is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies. His research explores the postcolonial bourgeoisie and its legacy across Sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean, and France. Working across postcolonial theory, environmental humanities, and cultural studies, he examines how literary and cinematic works give shape to ecological destruction and uneven spatial power. His current conceptual framework brings Rob Nixon’s notion of slow violence into dialogue with Édouard Glissant’s poetics of relation, formulating a geopoetics of collective indignation that centers marginalized voices within degraded environments.

Grounded in the critical genealogies of Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, Pierre Bourdieu, and Didier Eribon, Bonhomme’s scholarship addresses affect theory, necropolitics, and the aesthetics of disgust. His work draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Jacmel, Haiti, and spans both academic prose and poetry.

Selected Publications

● Monograph (in preparation): Nausée postcoloniale: écrire la honte pour ne pas mourir de la vérité.
● Poetry Collection: Tant que les lucioles illuminent la nuit. Éditions Baudelaire, 2024.
● Journal Article: « Géographie de la persécution et de la révolte dans Les Villes assassines d’Alfred Alexandre ». Nouvelles Études Francophones, vol. 38, no. 2, 2023, pp. 163–175.
● Journal Article: « L’Esthétique de la dégradation dans la littérature africaine: une lecture de L’État Honteux et de Xala ». Nouvelles Études Francophones, vol. 36, no. 1/2, 2021, pp. 240–254.
● “Repenser les élites haïtiennes: de la Vocation de l’élite de Jean Price-Mars à nos jours.” Le Nouvelliste, 8 June 2026, lenouvelliste.com/article/268083/repenser-les-elites-haitiennes-de-la-vocation-de-lelite-de-jean-price-mars-a-nos-jours.