Valerie Orlando
Professor, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Professor & Chair, French
Professor, Cinema and Media Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center
3106C Jiménez Hall
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Education
Ph.D., French and Francophone Literatures, Brown University
Research Expertise
Africa
Caribbean
Colonialism
Valérie K. Orlando is Professor of French and Francophone Literatures at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received a Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award for 2023--2024. She is the recipient of the Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Award (Université de Lyon-Lumière II, Lyon, France, fall 2019) and was Research Fellow at the Collegium de Lyon (L’institut d’études avancées de l’université de Lyon, spring 2020). She is the author of six books, the most recent of which include: The Algerian New Novel: The Poetics of a Modern Nation, 1950-1979 (2017), New African Cinema (2017), and Screening Morocco: Contemporary Film in a Changing Society (2011). She has published with Cécile Accilien Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New Narratives (2021), with Pamela Pears, Paris and the Marginalized Author: Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile (2018) and with Sandra M. Cypess, Reimaging the Caribbean: Conversations among the Creole, English, French and Spanish Caribbean (2014). She publishes articles in French and English on a wide variety of subjects in the areas of Literary Studies, Women’s Studies, African Cinema, and French and Francophone Studies, specifically focusing on Africa and the Caribbean. Since 2004, she has worked as Series Editor for After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France with Lexington Books.
