Author Biography
Christelle Ha Soon is a Ph.D student in American Literature at Rouen University (ERIAC Research Laboratory), France, working under the supervision of Anne-Laure Tissut.
After working for two years on the works of Toni Morrison, she obtained her Master’s Degree in English in 2010 at La Sorbonne University (Paris IV), before passing the French Teaching Exam (CAFEP-CAPES) in English the following year.
She is currently doing her doctoral thesis while teaching in a high school in Paris. Her research focuses on the construction of identity in ethnic American literature, especially in African-American and Chinese-American literature through the works of Toni Morrison and Maxine Hong Kingston. She is most particularly interested in the cultural conflicts and dilemmas evoked in ethnic American literature, eventually leading to the making of a plural identity through writing and the manipulation of language.
She took part in several international conferences both in French and English, during which she looked at the possible risks and benefits that would result from the invention of a new political, social but also literary identity, through the creation of a new and somehow unknown language.
