Dr. Ren茅e Altergott
Assistant Professor of Black French Thought
Ph.D. in French and Francophone Literature, Princeton University
Email: ralter1@lsu.edu
Biography
Ren茅e Altergott is Assistant Professor of Black French Thought in the Department of French Studies at 蘑菇tv. Dr. Altergott is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research examines the intersections between French imperialism, media history, sound studies, and the cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Her recent articles on voice, technology, and listening have appeared in Le Temps des M茅dias, Contemporary French Civilization Intersections, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and French Forum. Dr. Altergott is co-editing a special issue of Modern & Contemporary France on sound studies and ecocriticism, forthcoming 2027.
Selected Publications
鈥溾�楧e la terre inconnue鈥�: le r么le subversif des chants de guerre des colonis茅s dans la propagande sonore de l鈥橢xposition Coloniale de 1931.鈥� Le Temps des M茅dias, 2025, n掳 44, 鈥淧honographies politiques,鈥� edited by Jonathan Thomas, Jedediah Sklower, and Alexandre Borrel, pp. 85-98. DOI:
鈥溾�楨lles n鈥檕nt pas la voix blanche鈥�: Colorblind Listening and the French Podcast.鈥� Special issue of Contemporary French Civilization Intersections, 鈥淧odcasting Disruptive Voices: New Narratives of Race, Gender & Sexuality,鈥� co-edited by Thomas Muzart and Audrey Brunetaux, 2023, pp. 45-61. DOI: 10.3828/cfci.2023.4
鈥淪amori Tour茅 and the Portable God: Imagining the Phonographic Conquest of West Africa.鈥� Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol. 50, nos. 3-4, Spring-Summer 2022, pp. 151-69. DOI: 10.1353/ncf.2022.0008
鈥淢ediated Martyrdom in Marjane Satrapi鈥檚 Persepolis.鈥� Comics & Intermediality, edited by Fabrice Leroy, Jan Baetens, and Hugo Frey, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2022, pp. 147-171.
鈥淯ne Machine 脿 gloire? Legacies of the French Inventor(s) of Sound Recording Through the Ages.鈥� French Forum, vol. 46.1, Spring 2021, pp. 19-35. DOI: 10.1353/frf.2021.0001
鈥淧arasitic Reproduction: Recording the Female in the Early Works of Patrick Chamoiseau.鈥� Women in French Studies, 2019, pp. 203-13.
Areas of Interest
Caribbean and Sub-Saharan African literatures and cultures
Colonial and Postcolonial studies
Music and Sound Studies
Media History and Film
Archive Studies
19th-century novel