Cédric Courtois

Cédric Courtois is Senior Lecturer in Anglophone studies at the University of Lille, France. He specialises in Nigerian literature, which was the focus of his PhD dissertation on the contemporary Nigerian rewritings of the Bildungsroman. He has published various articles and book chapters on mobility studies, refugee literature, LGBTQIA+ studies, etc. Among his recent publications are "'I have wanted nothing but to be seen': In/visibility and Power Dynamics in Suyi Davies Okungbowa’s Lost Ark Dreaming (2024)" (2025) for e-Rea, “‘[C]losure is something I may never obtain’: (In)consolation in Yewande Omotoso’s An Unusual Grief (2022) and Onyi Nwabineli’s Someday, Maybe (2022)” (2024) for e-Rea, and “Politics and Poetics of (De)colonization in Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift (2019)” (2023) for Journal of Postcolonial
Writing.