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Professor Andrianarivo Rakotobe joined the American University of Paris from Emory UniversityÌýwhere he receivedÌýhis PhD in FrenchÌýin 2021. He also studied atÌýthe Université de La Réunion, the University of Sheffield, andÌýthe Université François Rabelais of Tours, where he obtained an MA in English studies.ÌýBefore beginning his doctoral work at Emory, Andrianarivo taughtÌýfor six years at Harvard University as a Teaching Assistant in French.

Andrianarivo’s researchÌýinterests include Francophone Indian Ocean, African, and Caribbean literatures, cultures, and films. His current book project investigatesÌýfamadihana, an ancestral exhumation practice from Madagascar, which he employs metaphorically as a framework for analyzing multigeneric insular narratives of La Réunion, Tromelin, and Martinique, which he studies alongside Madagascar. Using a minor transnational approach to connect these islands with a shared history of transoceanic migration, he analyzes stories of unburials in contemporary fictions, poetry, bande dessinée, and films, in which authors exhume the bodies of insurgents, revolutionaries, slaves, and maroons from the desecrated tombs of oblivion so as to transfer their remains into a new, textually constructed burial site. His articles appear in peer-reviewed journalsÌýFrench ForumÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýL’Esprit Créateur.