Kieron Cindric is a PhD candidate in French Literature at Yale University. His research focuses on contemporary Francophone literature, visual culture, and performance studies, with particular attention to migrancy, masculinity, queerness, and representations of sex work within broader structures of capitalism. Kieron also works on 19th-century French literature, especially the intersections of theatricality, spectatorship, and the Gothic. His planned dissertation, tentatively titled “Night Shifts: Masculinity, Temporality, and Nocturnal Life in Contemporary France,” examines “the night” in contemporary French film and literature and across contexts such as work and nightlife; it traces how nocturnal environments shape both liberatory and disciplinary narratives of gender, labor, migration, and desire while reimagining the Republic.
Before coming to Yale, Kieron spent several years touring North America, Europe, and Asia as an actor and dancer. He also taught French at an independent school in Northeast Ohio. At Yale, Kieron co-founded and co-runs Yale’s first-ever undergraduate French-language theater troupe, Yatelier.
Kieron holds a B.A. in French and Art History from Columbia University and an M.Ed. in World Language Teaching & Education from The Ohio State University. His writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from Modern & Contemporary France, Journal of African Cinema, Romanic Review, French Forum, and Modern Drama.