Pierre-Philippe Fraiture

Pierre-Philippe Fraiture is a Professor in the Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first century French and Belgian literatures, particularly colonial writing and discourses, francophone postcolonial literature from Sub-Saharan Africa, African philosophy, and the intersection of African literature with visual arts and extractivism. He has secured significant funding from the AHRC, British Academy, and European Research Council, and serves as a Research Associate at the CNRS-funded 'Les Afriques dans le monde' team at Sciences Po, Bordeaux.

• Research areas span colonial memory, African philosophical traditions, and extractivist narratives
• Recipient of ERC Consolidator Grant (2020-2025) and Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2025, 15 months)
• Editorial roles: Regional editor for Belgium in A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures, co-editor of special journal issues
• Teaches modules including Postcolonial Literatures in French, Colonial Memory, and French Crime Fiction

His recent publications examine Congolese cultural production, extractivism in African art, and translations of African thought. He has supervised doctoral research on postcolonial theory, political Islamism in Algeria, and Caribbean-Haitian literary analysis, while currently guiding five theses on topics ranging from Conan Doyle's reception in China to contemporary crime fiction. As Corresponding Fellow of the Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer (Brussels) since 2015, he contributes to international academic networks.

His ERC-funded project (2020-2025) investigates African philosophy and genres, while his Leverhulme-funded monograph DRC Extractivism across the Arts and Literature analyzes resource exploitation narratives. He has presented research at institutions like Cornell, Amherst, and the University of Edinburgh, and served on university committees including the Equality and Inclusion Forum.

• Key Awards:
  • European Research Council Consolidator grant (2020-2025)
  • Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2025)
  • British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
  • Corresponding Fellow, Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer (2015)