Patricia Angele Siewe Seuchie
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
Senior Lecturer
McMurran Hall 111
(757) 594-8200
patricia.sieweseuchie@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in French and Francophone Studies, Pennsylvania State University
- DEA in African Literature, University of Yaounde I (Cameroon)
- Maitrise in Francophone Women's Literature, University of Yaounde I (Cameroon)
- Licence in French Literature, University of Yaounde I (Cameroon)
Teaching
Francophone Culture and Literature
Hexagonal French Literature and Culture (20th & 21st Century)
French language
Research
Francophone Literature
Migration studies (Culture and Identity)
Postcolonial Theory
Biography
Patricia S. Seuchie holds degrees from the Université de Yaoundé and The Pennsylvania State University. Trained to teach French, her fields of interest range from Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literature and Culture of French Expression to Postcolonial Studies and Literary Theory. She has presented papers at national and international meetings on the questions of identity, culture, gender and human rights with a connection to hexagonal France and the (former) French colonies, including Sub-Sahara Africa, North Africa and the Caribbean. As a result of that, she has published articles and book reviews in prestigious journals. She currently teaches French Language, Francophone Literature and Culture at Christopher Newport University.
Selected Accomplishments
- Patricia Siewe Seuchie, The Politic of Critic, the Critic of Politic, "“ The children of the Postcolonie in the African Novel of French Expression: Challenges and Prospects"," Yaoundé - Cameroon. (2024)
- Patricia Siewe Seuchie, Recasting Black Global Studies, "“Michel-Rolph Trouillot's Silencing the Past : The told and untold in the Narration of Black People's History"," Yaoundé - Cameroon. (2023)
- Patricia Siewe Seuchie, African Literature Association, ""Mobility, migration and transnationalism: a postcolonial projection beyond the borders "," Knoxville, Tennesee. (2023)
- Patricia Siewe Seuchie, International Colloquium: Re-imagine the Postcolonial City: The City as a Place of Reading Postcolonial Events., ""The dynamic of Relationships in Urban Milieu: Challenges, Paradoxes, and Projections in Nathalie Etoke’s Postcolonial City," Winnipeg, Canada. (2022)
- Patricia Siewe Seuchie, African Literature Association, "“The role of the intellectual in socio-political challenges in postcolonial sub-Saharan African”.," Virtual. (2022)
- Patricia Siewe Seuchie, Mongo Beti International Colloquim, "African writers' intellectual commitment in the society," Yaoundé- Cameroon. (2021)
- Patricia Siewe Seuchie, American Association of Teachers of French, "Writing and Discourse of Migration in Illegal Context. Socio, Political and economic Challenges of Immigrants across Mediterr," Quebec- Canada. (2020)
- Patricia Siewe Seuchie, African Literature Association, "The Role of the Intellectual in the Socio-Political Challenges of Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa," Virtual. (2020)
- Patricia Siewe Seuchie, Conversation on Diversity at CNU, "Conversation on Blackness," Christopher Newport University. (2020)