Fania Noël
Fania Noël is an Afrofeminist scholar, writer, and organizer. She is a Research Scholar at the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her work bridges political sociology and Critical Black Cultural Studies, focusing on the legitimacy battles surrounding Blackness, political identity formation, and mobilization in France; Black feminist theories of “homeplace”; and the representation of racialized gender in speculative fiction. Fania Noël earned an M.A. in Sociology from Paris V René Descartes University, and an M.A. in political sciences from Panthéon-Sorbonne University before earning a PhD at The New School for Social Research. She is currently completing two manuscripts: In the Name of the Dead Black Wife: Absenting, Blackness, and Gender in Science Fiction (expected 2026) and Noir in Place: Black Politics, Gender, and Space in Contemporary France, based on her doctoral dissertation. Her third book, 10 Questions sur les Féminismes Noirs, was published in 2024 by Libertalia Press. Fania Noël is the creator and editor-in-chief of ALASO, a trilingual (Haitian Creole, French, English) Haitian feminist anthology revue published by the Haitian feminist organization NÈGÈS MAWON.
Collected Work
“Partner, Not Comrade: Blackness, Cross-Racial Coalition, and Power in France”
This article investigates how Black organizations in France are navigating the space of encounter with predominantly white leftist organizations. Using interviews conducted with white leftist organizers and Black organizers, the author shows how they crafted an alternative answers to key movement questions, building upon specific ways of doing/being in the face of fraternalisme and anti-Blackness.