Jeanne Devautour Choi

Department of French and Romance Philology

Jeanne Devautour Choi is a PhD candidate in French and Romance Philology at Columbia University, where she is also an affiliate of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. Her dissertation research delineates new transnational literary practices arising from transgenerational collective trauma in contemporary post-dictatorial and post-war societies, with a thorough analysis of the Argentine, Haitian, and Vietnamese contexts. Prior to joining Columbia University, Jeanne received her BAs from Paris-IV Sorbonne and was a “normalienne” at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, where she earned two MAs, conducting research on contemporary French visual and conceptual art, and on Caribbean postcolonial literature.