Eraste Kossa

Eraste is a second-year PhD student in the French and Italian department at The Ohio State University. Originally from Côte d’Ivoire, he is passionate about Francophone African literature and cinema. For his current research, he is interested in questions regarding Francophone and afro-diasporic identity, memory, and belonging. His emerging research interests focus on the affective legacies of post colonialism and the ways Francophone African and diasporic literature and cinema explore experiences of belonging.