Jacqueline Couti

Jacqueline Couti is the Laurence H. Favrot Associate Professor of French Studies and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University.

Education
Dr. Couti received her MA in 2004, and her PhD in 2008 from the University of Virginia in French Language and Literatures with a specialization in Francophone and New World Studies.

Career
Dr. Couti came to Rice University's Department of Classical and European Studies, which is now the Department of Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures, in 2018. In 2019, Dr. Couti organized a three-day international symposium on black feminism entitled Can We Talk About Black Feminisms in a French (Post-)imperial Context? In the spring of 2020 Dr. Couti was awarded a Conference and Workshop Development Fund grant for In the Path of Disaster(s) with Luis Duno-Gottberg, as well as a Scholarly and Creative Works Subvention Fund grant for Sex, Sea, and Self: Nationalism and Sexuality in French Caribbean Discourses, 1924-1948.

Dr. Couti joined the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Kentucky in 2010 as an associate professor of French and Francophone Studies. While there, she also taught in Gender and Women Studies as well as African-American and Africana Studies, and served as an advisor for the Caribbean Student Association. Dr. Couti, who is a native of Martinique, was the first scholar given access to Aimé Césaire's home office documents when she conducted a research trip in 2010 in preparation for a critical edition on the Martinican politician and poet.

Awards

 * 2013-2014 College of Arts & Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Kentucky
 * 2016 College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Awards: Award for Diversity and Inclusion, University of Kentucky