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After completing his PhD in literature in Great Britain, Johann Sadock taught at Harvard and then came to MIT in 1998. In 1999, 2000 and 2001, he received three successive grants from the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning to develop a Web project, Au-delà du regard: rencontres multiethniques, that deals with cultural diversity in France in relation to the Francophone world. In1999-2000, he completed a documentary, Black, Blanc, Beur: parlons-en!, based on the interviews that he conducted and filmed in Paris for this Web project. Johann’s film was shown as one of the “Highlights” of the 2006 AATF National Convention: “Vues sur le monde francophone: cinéma et société”. At this convention, he also led a panel on the 2005 crisis in the suburbs of France. Johann has participated in conferences on transnational cultures, diasporas and immigrant identities; race and racism in literature and film; cultural memory; economic discourses in literature; diversity and difference in France and the Francophone World.
He was recently guest co-editor of an issue of Contemporary French and Francophone Studies (formerly SITES) : Séfarade-Francophone/Sephardic-Francophone (Vol. 11.2 , 2007). His articles have appeared in L’infini (Gallimard), Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Contemporary French Civilization and Paragraphes. His forthcoming articles include an essay on youth in France for the volume France in the Twenty-First Century. His interest in teaching with technology also led him to develop a Metamedia project, Contempor@rt, on the creation and interpretation of contemporary art.
Johann Sadock is currently Study Abroad Advisor for the French Group at MIT.
