Ryan Joyce is Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at The Ohio State University in the Department of French and Italian and is affiliated with the Center for African Studies and the Center for Latin American Studies at Ohio State. His research brings a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective to French, francophone, and creole studies, with a particular focus on the Atlantic World and wider Western Hemisphere, including Haiti, the Caribbean, Louisiana, and the Amazon. He examines the histories, literatures, and philosophies of colonialism and decolonization through literary and cultural analysis and multi-site archival work that engages sound, image, film, oral history, and digital archives. His scholarship foregrounds the study of creolization, gender and sexuality, diaspora and migration, performance, and marronage. 

Some of his recent work has appeared in Études francophones, on 19^th-century francophone Louisiana writer and missionary Adrien Rouquette, Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory, on Haitian-American poet and performance artist Assotto Saint, and The Journal of Haitian Studies, on nocturnal marronage in Vodou and Haitian literature and culture. A forthcoming essay on Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé will appear in Maryse Condé and Caribbean Crossings (Liverpool University Press). 

He also works on removing barriers and widening access to language, literature, and cultural education. At Ohio State, he runs a working group on decolonial pedagogies, which aims to foster critical reflection on how knowledge is produced and shared in the classroom. He organized and teaches Kickstart Kreyòl, a Haitian language and culture course for Ohio K-12 educators, many of whom work with students from the state’s large Haitian diaspora. 

He teaches French language classes and courses on francophone literature, decolonization and postcolonial thought, Caribbean cultural studies, and the history of Paris.