Education and teaching experience:

Olivier Bourderionnet received a Licence d’anglais from the University of Paris III (La Sorbonne Nouvelle) a Masters of Arts from the University of New Orleans and a Ph.D. from Tulane University.

Before joining the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of New Orleans he taught for one year at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City as a visiting-assistant professor and for two years at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA as an assistant professor.

Bourderionnet is currently revising his dissertation for publication under the working title: Une poésie de l’irrévérence: la chanson à texte dans la société française des “Trente Glorieuses” à nos jours.

Professional interests:

Teaching French language at all levels via contemporary popular culture, internet and video technology. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature and culture, French Cultural Studies, literary criticism and theory. French poetics, French song from the troubadours to techno, jazz studies, Post-colonial theory, cinema and film theory.

Publications:

Articles

“Displacement in French/Displacement of French: The Reggae and R’n’B of Tiken Jah Fakoly and Corneille.”
Research in African Literatures - Volume 39, Number 4, Winter 2008

“Brassens et Gainsbourg: contemporains? Métamorphoses de la chanson au cœur des ‘Trente Glorieuses.’”
Contemporary French Civilization. Winter/Spring 2006
Vol. XXX, number 1

Book Reviews

Paris Africain: Rhythms of the African Diaspora by James A. Winders
Contemporary French Civilization. Summer/Fall 2008
Vol. XXXII, number 2

The André Hodeir Jazz Reader. Jean-Louis Pautrot, ed.
Contemporary French Civilization. Winter/Spring 2007
Vol. XXXII, number 1

La France de Zebda 1981-2004: faire de la musique un acte politique. by Danielle Marx-Scouras
Contemporary French Civilization. Summer/Fall 2007
Vol. XXXI, number 2

Brel and Chanson, by Sara Poole.
Contemporary French Civilization. Summer/Fall 2005
Vol. XXIX, number 2.

Translations

“L’image comme image: le (possible) triomphe du simulacre dans l’univers de Beigbeder.” by Bill Cloonan.
Alain-Philippe Durand, ed. Frederic Beigbeder et ses doubles.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008.

Papers given:

“Vian, Brassens, Gainsbourg: pour une poésie swing.”
20th Century French Studies Colloquium. Cultural Capital: Canons, Cultures and Contexts. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

“Brassens et Gainsbourg, contemporains? Des sabots d’Hélène à Melody Nelson, visages changeants d’une musique populaire résolument hexagonale.”
20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. University of Florida, Tallahassee.

“Post-colonial Pied-Noir Identities and Cinema: L’autre Côté de la Mer by Dominique Cabrera and Là-bas Mon Pays by Alexandre Arcady.
20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. University of Florida, Gainesville.

“Displacement in French / Displacement of French: The Francophone World Music and R’n’B of Tiken Jah Fakoly and Corneille”
20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. University of Miami, Florida.

“Amadou et Mariam, Manu Chao, Keren Ann and Carla Bruni: A few ‘French Exceptions’ on the American Pop Music Market!”
20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium.
University of Texas A&M. College Station.

“Making Hip-Hop “Respectable”: Abd Al Malik, a Picture-Perfect Banlieue Artist?” Organizer of Special Session: “Chanson and Social   Malaise in France” at the 2007 MLA conference in Chicago, Ill.