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Professor Andrianarivo Rakotobe joined the American University of Paris from Emory University听where he received听his PhD in French听in 2021. He also studied at听the Universit茅 de La R茅union, the University of Sheffield, and听the Universit茅 Fran莽ois Rabelais of Tours, where he obtained an MA in English studies.听Before beginning his doctoral work at Emory, Andrianarivo taught听for six years at Harvard University as a Teaching Assistant in French.

Andrianarivo鈥檚 research听interests include Francophone Indian Ocean, African, and Caribbean literatures, cultures, and films. His current book project investigates听famadihana, an ancestral exhumation practice from Madagascar, which he employs metaphorically as a framework for analyzing multigeneric insular narratives of La R茅union, Tromelin, and Martinique, which he studies alongside Madagascar. Using a minor transnational approach to connect these islands with a shared history of transoceanic migration, he analyzes stories of unburials in contemporary fictions, poetry, bande dessin茅e, and films, in which authors exhume the bodies of insurgents, revolutionaries, slaves, and maroons from the desecrated tombs of oblivion so as to transfer their remains into a new, textually constructed burial site. His articles appear in peer-reviewed journals听French Forum听补苍诲听L鈥橢sprit Cr茅ateur.