Romain Pasquer Brochard

  • Assistant Professor of French

Areas of Study

Education

  • PhD, French studies, Cornell University, 2022
  • MA, gender and sexuality studies, Université Vincennes/Saint-Denis, 2016
  • BA, sociology, Université Paris-Diderot, 2014

Biography

Romain Pasquer Brochard’s work is situated at the intersection of Caribbean studies, the trauma of slavery and colonialism in the francophone, and the study of literary theory and psychoanalysis. His research explores the role literary writers and their texts play in the testimony of the trauma of slavery and colonialism in the French Caribbean. In his work, he examines how literature can serve as a mode of testimony that emerges from within a traumatic history that continually repeats itself, even as it resists being recorded in historiographical discourses.

Prior to coming to Oberlin College, he had taught at Cornell University, the Cornell Prison Education Program, and Union College, NY.

Francophone Caribbean studies, Francophone Literature of the 20th- and 21-st centuries, history of French slavery and colonialism, intergenerational trauma, trauma theory, psychoanalysis, and literary theory.

  • Brochard, Romain Pasquer. "Listening to the trauma of slavery: Echoes of a disappeared voice in Le Livre d’Emma by Marie-Célie Agnant." Francosphères 14.1 (2025): 7-22.
  • Caruth, Cathy, Romain Pasquer Brochard, and Ben Tam. "" Who Speaks from the Site Of Trauma?": An Interview with Cathy Caruth." Diacritics 47.2 (2019): 48-71.
  • Brochard, Romain Pasquer. "Gide et l’inattendu de la rencontre: désir et altérité dans L’Immoraliste." Chimères 96.1 (2020): 200-211.

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