Yohann Lucas

Yohann Lucas is a Lecturer at the University of Rouen Normandy's UFR Letters and Human Sciences, holding an Associate Professor title since 2013. His research focuses on African American cultural history, book history, and media studies. He received a Doctorate in Anglophone Studies (2021) from Gustave Eiffel University, examining Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement publications’ role in canon formation.

His academic work explores intersections of race, cultural production, and literary archives through analyses of anthologies (e.g., Black Fire), periodicals (Negro Digest/Black World), and editorial practices. He has co-organized interdisciplinary workshops on knowledge hierarchies and disciplinary formations in U.S. academia.

Recent contributions include studies on Black Arts Movement drama and Harlem Renaissance poetry anthologies, forthcoming in TIES and RFEA. He has presented at conferences including the Caribbean Philosophical Association and European Society for Periodical Research events.

• PhD: "Producing, Reproducing, and Preserving: Magazines and Anthologies of the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement" (2021)
• Co-organizer of AFEA congress workshops on epistemological resistance and minoritized knowledge
• Published in Quaderna, proceedings of Saint Étienne's ‘Invisibility to Visibility’ symposium