Adrien Mbar Pouille

Adrien Pouille’s research focuses on French-speaking or Francophone artists’ relationships with narrative genres, especially novels and films. He studies their endeavors to express hybrid worldviews and paradigms through multivocal and multimodal texts. He has taken part in several collaborative research projects and publications among which African Cultural Production & the Rhetoric of Humanism (Lexington Books, 2020), and A Saafi-Saafi & English/French Dictionary (Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2016). His papers “Ambivalent Relation with the Divine in Wole Soyinka’s The Road” and “A Philosophical, Cultural and Literary Critique of Mental Illness in Birago Diop’s Sarzan” were respectively published by Ufahamu in 2016 and The African Journal of Religion, Philosophy and Culture in 2021. He is also the author of Human Journeys and the Quest for Knowledge in African Writing (Academica Press, 2021).

Pouille graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a Ph.D. in comparative literature, and two Ph.D. certificates in African studies and global studies. Before joining DKU, Pouille taught at St. Mary’s College of Maryland as a French teaching assistant, Indiana University Bloomington as an associate instructor, and Wabash College as a visiting assistant professor of French.

Adrien Pouille的研究聚焦于法语或法语区艺术家与叙事体裁（尤其是小说和电影）之间的关系。他探讨这些艺术家如何通过多声部、多模态的文本表达混合的世界观和范式。他参与了多个协作型研究项目及出版工作，其中包括《非洲文化创作与人文主义修辞》（African Cultural Production & the Rhetoric of Humanism, Lexington Books, 2020）以及《萨菲语-英语/法语词典》（A Saafi-Saafi & English/French Dictionary, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 2016）。他的学术论文《沃尔·索因卡〈道路〉中的神性矛盾关系》（”Ambivalent Relation with the Divine in Wole Soyinka’s The Road“）和《比拉戈·迪奥普〈萨尔赞〉中的哲学、文化与文学对精神疾病的批判》（”A Philosophical, Cultural and Literary Critique of Mental Illness in Birago Diop’s Sarzan“），分别发表于2016年的《Ufahamu》和2021年的《非洲宗教、哲学与文化杂志》（The African Journal of Religion, Philosophy and Culture）。此外，他还是《人类旅程与非洲写作中的知识追寻》( Human Journeys and the Quest for Knowledge in African Writing, Academica Press, 2021) 的作者。

Pouille毕业于印第安纳大学布鲁明顿分校，获得比较文学博士学位，并取得非洲研究和全球研究的两个博士研究证书。在加入昆山杜克大学之前，普伊耶曾在马里兰州圣玛丽学院担任法语助教，在印第安纳大学布鲁明顿分校担任助理讲师，并在瓦巴什学院担任法语客座助理教授。