Dominique Licops

Dominique Licops, Lecturer in French, has a Licence in Germanic Philology from Université Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium), an M.A. in Literture from Commonwealth Countries from Leeds University (UK), a PhD. in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University, and a gradutate certificate in Gender Studies, also from Northwestern University. Her dissertation is a study of metaphors of identity in Caribbean Francophone and Anglophone Literature. She has published articles on issues of identity and its representation in images and metaphors, and on the work of Aimé Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gisèle Pineau, Assia Djebar, Brigitte Roüan in among others, Thamyris and Women's Studies Quarterly.

Dominique is currently teaching a wide range of courses in the French department and for the School of Continuing Studies, and occasionally for the Gender Studies Program.