Crafting Identities, Remapping Nationalities

Cécile Coquet-Mokoko has been Associate Professor of African American and American Studies at the University of Tours, France for the past ten years. She received her PhD in African American Studies under the supervision of Prof. Geneviève Fabre (University of Paris 7) in 1998 and her work, Le prédicateur afro-américain et l’art du sermon: une poétique de l’élection, was published by Presses du Septentrion (Lille, France) in 2000. Her publications focus on African American religious traditions, oratory, and gender relations. After teaching African American Studies for a year and a half at the University of Alabama, where she did sociological fieldwork in 2009–2010, she is currently working on a comparative study of the representations and self-representations of interracial couples in Alabama and in France.

Trevor Harris is Professor of British Civilisation in the Department of English Studies at the University of Tours, France. He has worked extensively on the political and the intellectual history of Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and on British foreign policy, as well as the relationship between these in the construction and evolution of British national identity. His most recent book is Une Certaine idée de l’Angleterre in the collection “L’Histoire au présent” (Paris: Armand Colin, 2006).