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Comparative Literature

Chloé Brault MacKinnon

I am a 4th year PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature. I teach French as a Second Language and French-language literature at Stanford. I argue in my dissertation that any effective reading of 20th- and 21st-century francophone literature must consider both the history of French language standardization and the history of imperial legal writing going back to the 17th-century. As of late I've been preparing writing on my choice to substitute the word "n_gre" by "le mot en N" in my classroom, as well as collaborative research on how specific French grammar lessons are prone to promote racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, fatphobic or ableist norms.