Branding the ‘Beur’ Author: Minority Writing and the Media in France, 1983-2013

Kathryn Kleppinger completed her PhD in French literature and French Studies at New York University in 2011, and is assistant professor of French and Francophone Studies at George Washington University. Her first book, Branding the Beur Author: Minority Writing and the Media, 1983-2013 (Liverpool University Press, 2015) studies the television and radio reception of novels written by the descendants of North African immigrants to France.

Presentation in English.