Dr. Claire Fouchereaux

Claire Fouchereaux is Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Wabash College (Indiana, USA). She holds a Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies from Indiana University Bloomington. Her research interests are generally centered on French-language popular media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and their relationship to collective consciousness, ideologies, and norms within various cultural contexts. Her doctoral dissertation interrogated the relationship between rap in the French-speaking Canadian province of Québec, mainstream popular music and its structures there, and the construction of community from the mid-2000s to the late 2010s. Themes of her current research pertain to French-language public discourse on politics and identity, the reception of 20th century hip-hop in Québec, and, as former coordinator of the Early African Cinemas Lab at Indiana University (2024-2025), early African cinemas.