Nicolas Noé, PhD Candidate (ABD)
Nicolas Noé
PhD Candidate & Dissertation Fellow
My name is Nicolas Noé. I am a scholar of modern and contemporary French and Francophone literature, specializing in Francophone Caribbean literature, literary form, and critical theory.
I am a PhD candidate (ABD) in French and Francophone Studies at Indiana University Bloomington and a 2026–27 College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Completion Fellow. I will defend my dissertation in April 2027.
My scholarship has appeared in Revue des Sciences Humaines, Nouvelles Études Francophones, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: SITES, and Migrating Minds. My work has been recognized by the William Slaymaker Graduate Essay Prize in Critical Theory, the Haitian Studies Association Merit Grant for Outstanding Research, and an honorable mention for the Prix Jeune Chercheur of the Conseil International d’Études Francophones. I have also received a departmental award for excellence in teaching.
Research Interests
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Francophone Caribbean Literature
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Aesthetics & Literary Form
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Ecocriticism
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Critical Theory & Interpretation
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Memory, Language & Colonial Afterlives
I study how Francophone Caribbean writers make literary form resistant to fixed categories, and how these moving forms require us to rethink the critical practices through which we read them.
My research centers on modern and contemporary Francophone Caribbean literature and thought (1970 to the present), with particular attention to Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana. I study novels, essays, poetry, and manifestos, as well as intermedial works that combine writing with painting, drawing, and other visual forms.