Timothee Valentin

Timothée Valentin holds a MA and a PhD in French and Francophone Studies from Penn State University, where he has taught a wide range of classes from basic language to upper-level thematic courses, in both French and English. His book project considers Guadeloupean women ‘s political activism from the rise of a workers’ movement in Guadeloupe in the 1890s to 1946, 1946, when two women, Eugénie Éboué-Tell and Gerty Archimède, were elected to represent Guadeloupe at the French National Assembly. In January 2022, he also edited and published an 1899 serial novel, La fiancée du maître d’école by Sully Lara, a Guadeloupean writer and then schoolteacher.

Degree: PhD, 2023, Penn State University

Research Interest: Antillean history and literature; labor history; hip hop studies; democracy studies; French popular culture.