Senior Faculty Fellow for Arts and Humanities Research, CFE
Assistant Director for Grants and Fellowships, Arts and Humanities Forum, University of Oklahoma
Education:
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Comparative Literature, 2009
Contact:
Email: julie.tolliver-1@ou.edu
Her first book, The Quebec Connection: A Poetics of Solidarity in Global Francophone Literatures (University of Virginia Press, 2020), was supported by a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Comparative Literature Association’s Helen Tartar First Book Subvention. It examines the textual connections linking French-language writers from Quebec, Africa, and the Caribbean from the 1950s through the 1970s. Tolliver has also co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing titled “Alternative Solidarities: Black Diasporas and Cultural Alliances During the Cold War.” She has published articles on the work of Louise Archambault, Yamina Bachir-Chouikh, Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Nouri Bouzid, Aimé Césaire, Marie Vieux Chauvet, Paul Gury, Dany Laferrière, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Chloé Leriche, Ousmane Sembene, Kim Thúy, and Denis Villeneuve. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled “Burning History: Fire in North American Literature and Film,” which provides a much-needed humanistic examination of North America’s wildfire crisis.
World literature (early, 20th-century, and contemporary), world cinema, postcolonial studies, North American studies, translation studies.
Helen Tartar First Book Subvention (2020)
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2017-2018)
The Quebec Connection: A Poetics of Solidarity in Global Francophone Literatures. University of Virginia Press, 2020.
