Mat Fournier (he/him) is an Associate Professor of French and an affiliate member of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
His essays have been published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing; Simone de Beauvoir Studies; L'Esprit Créateur; Transgender Studies Quarterly, and in edited volumes such as Deleuze on Children and Transecology: Transgender Perspectives on the Environment. His book, Dysphoric Modernism: Undoing Gender in French Literature, looks at French literature to explore the emergence of modern gender. Dysphoric Modernism was short-listed for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards for LGBTQ+ Studies.
Before pursuing an academic career in the US, Mat worked as a freelance author and journalist in France for National Geographic France (Paris)and Milan Presse (Toulouse). In French, he has published Quand la Nature inspire la science [When Nature Inspires Science],a book on ethnobiology.