Dorothée Boulanger

Dr Dorothée Boulanger is a Career Development Fellow in Women's, Gender and Sexualities Studies and Junior Research Fellow at Linacre College, University of Oxford. She holds a Lecturer position in the Portuguese Sub-Faculty, specializing in African Literatures in Portuguese. Her academic roles include teaching core modules for the MSt in Women’s, Gender and Sexualities Studies and leading research initiatives like the African Languages, Literatures and Cultures TORCH network. Her research interrogates the intersection of African literatures, histories, and cosmologies, challenging Western academic frameworks through studies of Angolan postcolonial literature and ecocritical perspectives.

Her major publication Fiction as History: Resistance and Complicities in Angolan Postcolonial Literature (2022) examines Angolan novels as historical sources, while her current project ‘Contemporary Griots’ explores postcolonial literary legacies across Africa. Awards include the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and a Humanities Division Excellence Award. She co-edits Sources: Materials and Fieldwork in African Studies and has pioneered queer and ecocritical approaches in African literary studies.

• Education: PhD from King's College London
• Key Projects: ‘Luso-Ecologies’ special issue, ‘Queer African Arts’ edited collection
• Grants: Leverhulme Fellowship, Junior Research Fellowship

Her work bridges literary analysis with activism, emphasizing decolonial methodologies and environmental justice. Dorothée’s research networks include Linacre College, Jesus College, and the TORCH initiative, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration across Oxford.