Mat Fournier

Associate Professor, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
School: School of Humanities and Sciences
Office: Muller Faculty Center 404, Ithaca, NY 14850
Specialty: XXth Century French Literature; Transgender Studies; Continental Philosophy

Mat Fournier (he/him) is an Associate Professor of French and an affiliate member of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. His research focuses on trans studies, with a particular interest in the articulation between queerness and political theory. Fournier's essays have been published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing; Simone de Beauvoir Studies; L'Esprit Créateur; Transgender Studies Quarterly, and in edited volumes such as Deleuze on Children and Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment. 

His book, Dysphoric Assemblage: Writing Gender in the Interwar Years, looks at French modernist literature to explore the emergence of modern gender. 

Before pursuing an academic career in the US, Mat worked as a freelance author and journalist in France for National Geographic France (Paris) and Milan Presse (Toulouse). In French, he has published Quand la Nature inspire la science [When Nature Inspires Science], a book on ethnobiology.