Lucy Swanson

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Swanson, L. (2023). The Zombie in Contemporary French Caribbean Fiction. Liverpool University Press.

Chapters

• Swanson, L. (2018). A Case of the Zombies. In Literature, History, and the Zombie: French-Language Narratives of the Living Dead in Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe (book manuscript in progress).
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  First draft of new chapter for book manuscript.
• Swanson, L. (2018). Revenge of the Living Dead. In Literature, History, and the Zombie: French-Language Narratives of the Living Dead in Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe (book manuscript in progress).
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  First draft of an entirely new chapter for forthcoming book manuscript, anticipated completion mid-Feb. 2019.
• Swanson, L. (2015). “De retour d’entre les morts (encore). [Back from the Dead (Again): Zombies and the Spatial Imaginary in Contemporary Haitian Fiction].”. In Z pour Zombies, eds. Samuel Archibald, Antonio Dominguez Leiva and Bernard Perron(pp 101-113). Montreal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal.
• Swanson, L. (2013). “Digging Up the (Living) Dead: The Roots of Antillanité and Créolité.”. In Antillanité, créolité, littérature monde(pp 137-147). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Journals/Publications

• Swanson, L. (2020). Magical Thinking in Chamoiseau’s Chemin-d’école: From Quimbois to the Mission civilisatrice. Small Axe, 24(3), 16-30. doi:https://doi-org.ezproxy2.library.arizona.edu/10.1215/07990537-8749746
• Swanson, L. (2016). ‘“La Sorcellerie du savoir-faire technologique’: Sorcery and Knowledge in Kourouma’s Monnè, outrages et défis (1990).”. Contemporary French & Francophone Studies: SITES, 20(4-5), 632-639. doi:10.1080/17409292.2016.1216353
• Swanson, L. (2014). “Blankness, Alienation, and the Zombie in Recent Francophone Fiction.”. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 17(2), 177-197. doi:10.1386/ijfs.17.2.197_1
• Swanson, L. (2012). “Zombie Nation?: The Horde, Social Uprisings and National Narratives.” 34 (Fall 2012): n.p. http://www.cromrev.com/volumes/vol34/002-vol34-swanson.pdf. Cincinnati Romance Review, 34, 13-33.

Presentations

• Swanson, L. (2021, March 11, 2021.). “History and horror in Bonello’s Zombi Child.”. 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. Online.
• Swanson, L. (2021, October 22, 2021.). “Revolutionary Women & Literary Praxis in Evelyne Trouillot’s Désirée Congo”. Haitian Studies Association Conference. Online.
• Swanson, L. (2020, March). “Deconstructing Myths of Diaspora and Enslavement in Fabienne Kanor’s Humus (2006).”. 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. Cancelled due to COVID-19: 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies Association.
• Swanson, L. (2020, October). Power to the People?Tracing the Zombie in Gary Victor’s La Piste des sortilèges. Haitian Studies Association Conference. Online: Haitian Studies Association.
• Swanson, L. (2019, October). Ripple Affect: Echoes of Resistance in Evelyne Trouillot's Rosalie l'infâme (Infamous Rosalie, 2003). Plenary Panel at the Haitian Studies Association Conference. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida.
• Swanson, L. (2019, Spring). (Un)becoming Zombie: Adaptation and Revival in Whipping Zombie. 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies Conference. Oklahoma City: University of Oklahoma.
• Swanson, L. (2018, April 12). “Eagle Vision: Conspiracy Theories and Alternative Readings in the Assasssin’s Creed Series.”. Sous les pavés, 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. Providence, RI: Brown University.
• Swanson, L. (2018, Nov 8). “‘Un régiment de zombies’: The Revolutionary Walking Dead in Fignolé’s Aube tranquille.". Haitian Studies Association Conference: Haitian Studies at the Crossroads: Integrating the Humanities, Arts, Religions, Technology, and Sciences. Université Quisqueya, Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Haitian Studies Association.
• Swanson, L. (2017, April 8). “Gaming at the Margins: The (Post)Colonial Exotic in Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry.”. Le Sens et les sens / Sense and the Senses, 20th- and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Bloomington.
• Swanson, L. (2017, Nov 4). “Disability and Pathologization in Nonfiction Narratives of Zombification.”. Haiti: Paradoxes, Contradictions, Intersections in the Making of a People, Haitian Studies Association Conference. New Orleans: Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Xavier University of Louisiana and Tulane University.
• Swanson, L. (2016, May 14). “Beyond Commemorations: Remembering January 12, 2010 in the Literary and Visual Arts.”. Haiti: Beyond Commemorations and Boundaries, Joint Graduate and Faculty Conference. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Reviews

• Swanson, L. (2021. Architextual Authenticity: Constructing Literature and Literary Identity in the French Caribbean. By Jason Herbeck.(pp 121-123).
• Swanson, L. (2018. Undead Uprising: Haiti, Horror, and the Zombie Complex. By John Cussans.(pp 165-168). Journal of Haitian Studies.