Hugo Bujon

Hugo Bujon received his Ph.D. in Francophone studies with a certificate in Psychoanalysis studies at Emory University. He specializes in 20th- and 21th-century Sub-Saharan literature and philosophy from decolonial, ecocritical and psychoanalytic angles. Focusing on the writing of childhood in colonial and postcolonial contexts, he is currently working on a manuscript entitled Inventing Otherwise: Black Childhood and African Francophone Literature.

Publications:

• In Excess of Decolonization: the Sovereignty of Childhood in The Wretched of the Earth of Frantz Fanon,” Theory, Culture & Society (December 2023).

• “Writing resilience: an interview with Véronique Tadjo,” with Véronique Tadjo & Ninon Vessier, to be published at Francosphères (June 2023.)

• “Écologie, clôture métaphysique et négritude senghorienne,” Éthiopiques 104-105 (2020). 175-189.

Media Appearances/Speaking Engagements:

• “Sentimental (Mis)Educations: Joys and Sorrows of Childhood,” roundtable presided by Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Modern Literature Association, Philadelphia, January 7th, 2024.

• "Les Misérables" of Ladj Ly, a Screening with Hugo Bujon

• “In Excess of Decolonization: Childhood in Les damnés de la terre,” Fanon Unbound, University of Pennsylvania, March 17, 2023.

Previous Organizations: 

• Emory University

• Freedom University

Accomplishments:

• Laney Graduate School Student Award for Excellence in the Humanities: inclusion and diversity (2022)

• Kristin Mann Award in African Studies (2022)

Upcoming Projects:

• Writing Otherwise: Childhood in African Francophone Literature (Book Manuscript)

• Proposition for Global and Interdisciplinary Black Studies Symposium (organizer)

• Speaking About Children: For a Decolonial Ethics of Childhood Studies (Manuscript)

Social and racial justice is the core of my work, my research, my teaching, and my activism. Born and growing up in the French Banlieues, racial and social injustices were strikingly obvious. The problem became to understand why they were there, how did they work, and what could be done to bring justice, equity, and reparation. My work attempts to bring its small participation to these three objectives by focusing on Social and racial justice is the core of my work, my research, my teaching, and my activism. Born and growing up in the French Banlieues, racial and social injustices were strikingly obvious. The problem became to understand why they were there, how did they work, and what could be done to bring justice, equity, and reparation. My work attempts to bring its small participation to these three objectives by focusing on Social and racial justice is the core of my work, my research, my teaching, and my activism. Born and growing up in the French Banlieues, racial and social injustices were strikingly obvious. The problem became to understand why they were there, how did they work, and what could be done to bring justice, equity, and reparation. My work attempts to bring its small participation to these three objectives by focusing on childhood; that is the figure, the time and the notion at which all of this started for me, a figure too often subjugated, in fact the figure for which subjugation comes as a given fact.

"Just Takes" is an Op-Ed/thought piece/writing initiative at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice. Affiliated-faculty and Rutgers Researchers on Race can submit pieces of writing of 500 words or less pitched to orient their research towards a more public audience and/or as relevant for a current issue in the broad area of global racial justice. 

See Dr. Bujon's "Just Take" here: https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/Just-Takes

The Francophone, Italian, & Germanic Studies and the Philosophy Departments at the University of Pennsylvania are hosting an interdisciplinary workshop to discuss the work of Martinican philosopher, psychiatrist, and revolutionary Frantz Fanon, and its continued relevance in the 21st century.

https://globalracialjustice.rutgers.edu/event/fanon-unbound-interdisciplinary-encounters-frantz-fanon