Oana Sabo

Associate Professor - French and Italian

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Region
  • Europe
Oana Sabo

Courses

Migrant, Diasporic, and Transnational Literatures, Literature and Political Engagement from Sartre to the Present, The ‘Extreme Contemporary’ Novel

Research

French Literature, Diaspora & Transnational Studies, Comparative Literature, Immigrant Writers in the Francophone World

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Southern California, Comparative Literature, 2011
  • M.A., University of Southern California, Comparative Literature
  • B.A., University of Timisoara, English and French

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor of French, Tulane University, 2018-
  • Assistant Professor of French, Tulane University, 2012-2018
  • Postdoctoral Distinguished Teaching Fellow, University of Southern California, Departments of French & Italian and Comparative Literature, 2011-2012

Distinctions

  • Lucy Grant, Tulane University, 2013
  • Newcomb Faculty Research Grant, Tulane University, 2013
  • Learning Environments Grant, USC Center for Scholarly Technology, 2012
  • Josephine de Kármán Fellowship, 2008-2009

Languages

  • French
  • Romanian
  • Spanish
  • Italian

Overseas Experience

  • Haiti

Selected Publications

  • 2022. “The Expediency of Literature: French Humanitarian Narratives Between Politics and the Market” French Cultural Studies 33 (4): 361-375.
  • 2020. “Documenting the undocumented: Valeria Luiselli’s refugee children archives.” Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture 11 (2): 217-230.
  • 2018. The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France. University of Nebraska Press.