Research

RESEARCH INTEREST OVERVIEW

Black popular culture (Music, social media); Creolistics (the study of creole languages); Black France; Caribbean Identity; Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Caribbean; Language and Racialization; Language and globalization; African Diaspora Theory; Black and Third world Feminist thought; Queer Theory.

ONGOING PROJECTS

  •  Transnational linguistic and embodied stylization of the rude bwoy and bad gyal personas in the French Caribbean (Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana)

  •  Twitter discourses of affiliation and disaffiliation the win of Miss Guyane 2017 and Miss Guadeloupe as Miss France 2020

  •  Theorization of a Black France Musicscape

METHODOLOGIES

Ethnography (including online), Ethnographic and semi-structured interviews, and, Critical and Multimodal Discourse Analysis.

PUBLICATIONS
Edited Volumes

Lydner, R. (2023). Decolonizing Creolistics Through Popular Culture: The Case of Guyanais Dancehall. In A. C. Hudley, C. Mallinson, and M. Bucholtz, Decolonizing Linguistics. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.

Manuscripts

Lydner, R. (2022). S’habiller Sexy en Body String: The Bamby Controversy and the Image of French Caribbean Women. Manuscript Submitted for Initial Review.

Manuscripts in Progress

Lydner, R. (2022). Mwen enmé-w/I love you: Legitimatizing queer love in French Caribbean Zouk. Manuscript in Preparation.