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Caroline Fache

Caroline Fache

Associate Professor

CONTACT

Rayzor Hall, 226 | caroline.fache@rice.edu

Education

  • PhD, Indiana University

 

Research and Teaching

  • Francophone Studies
  • Black French Studies
  • Film Studies
  • Francophone Sub-Saharan Africa and diaspora

 

Upcoming Courses

  • Black Paris
  • France: the Soccer Empire
  • Africa Shoots Back

 

Caroline Fache is a French and Francophone Studies interdisciplinary scholar and teacher whose work examines representations of immigrant characters and their children in film, TV series, and literature. Fache’s current book project, Immigration Comedy In France: Race Relations on Screen looks at immigration comedy as a subgenre in French film, and more specifically at the evolution of the representation of immigrants from tragic figures to comedy agents. Her recent scholarship focused on francophone film production with her latest articles “Beur and banlieue TV comedies: new perspectives on immigration” (2018) and “Dis-integration: New Identity Formation Processes in 30° Couleur” (2020). Her teaching interests span a vast array of topics, including Black Paris, West African Cinema, and Translation courses. Fache has also been very involved with study abroad programs taking students to France, Morocco, and Reunion Island.

Before coming to Rice, Fache taught at Davidson College in North Carolina where she chaired the departments of Africana Studies, and French and Francophone Studies, and served as the Assistant Dean for Curricular Innovation. In 2023, she was selected as one of ten ACS/Mellon leadership fellows of the first cohort of fellows in the South.   


Fache is the new president of the Conseil International d’Études Francophone (CIEF/ International Council for Francophone Studies), which will hold its next international conference in 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa.

 

Selected Publications

 

1. Translations and Edited Volumes

·  Diop, Boubacar Boris. Africa

beyond the Mirror. Translated by Caroline Fache & Vera Leckie, introduction by Souleymane Bachir Diagne.Banbury: Ayebia Clarke, 2014.

·  Crossroads Of Memory, Laila Amine, Caroline Fache (Eds.) Culture, Theory and Critique, July 2012. 53:2.

 

2. Journal Articles and Book Chapters

·  Fache, Caroline, and Linsey Sainte-Claire. “French Dis-Integration: New Identity Formation Processes in 30° Couleur.” International journal of Francophone studies 23, no. 1–2 (2020): 49–72.

·  Fache, Caroline. “Beur and Banlieue Television Comedies: New Perspectives on Immigration.” In Reimagining North African Immigration: Identities in Flux in French Literature, Television, and Film, edited by Véronique Machelidon and Patrick Saveau, 97–115. Manchester University Press, 2018.

·  Amine, Laila, and Caroline Fache. “Crossroads of Memory: Contexts, Agents, and Processes in a Global Age.” Culture, Theory and Critique 53, no. 2 (2012): 99–109.

·  Fache, Caroline. “Transnational Heritage in Boualem Sansal’s The German Mujahid.” Culture, Theory and Critique 53, no. 2 (2012): 163–179.

·  Fache, Caroline. “The Métis Body: Double Mirror,” In Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility edited by Cybelle Wilkens-McFadden and Sandrine Teixidor, 99-124. Peter Lang, 2009.