The French Center of Excellence and Department of French & Italian are pleased to announce the speaker for the 2025 Jules Verne Lecture in Creative Writing: Professor Chase Cormier.
Chase Cormier holds a PhD in Francophone Studies from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he also served as editor of Feux Follets, an in-house review of creative writing and visual art from 2018 to 2023. His research examines literary trends in Francophone North America, with a particular interest in Louisiana French literature and food. He is the founder and host of Louisiane en vers, a bilingual podcast that explores current poetic trends in Louisiana and pays special attention to the therapeutic role of poetry in the region by responding to intergenerational trauma with community healing.
The Jules Verne Lecture in Creative Writing will take place on Thursday, March 20 from 4:00pm-5:00pm in Thompson Library, Multipurpose Room 165. Light refreshments will be served after the talk. To register, click here or call 614-247-4105.
If you are interested in pre-ordering Professor Cormier's most recent publication, Mal (Snowdrop Publishing, 2024), please click here.
The Jules Verne Lecture in Creative Writing is held each year to showcase authors and their creative writing work. These authors feature themes of French and Francophone culture, literature, poetry, music, art, and innovation. They share their work with students and faculty to foster interest and understanding in literary excellence and creativity.
This event is sponsored by the Department of French and Italian’s French Center of Excellence, which receives funding from French Cultural Services in the US and the Consulate General of France in Chicago. This series is also supported by the following departments and centers at Ohio State African American & African Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, Germanic Languages & Literatures, English, the Humanities Institute, and the Center for Languages, Literatures, & Cultures.
In December of 2020, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States selected the Department of French and Italian at The Ohio State University to join its prestigious network of Centers of Excellence. OSU’s Center of Excellence has the goal of promoting French and Francophone culture in the Midwest and beyond.
