University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition

Since I moved to the United States to join Penn State as a Francophone studies scholar, the multilingual literature of my native island Mauritius has always allowed me to “travel back” to home, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, via a simple book. Malcolm de Chazal, a Mauritian writer and painter, was a visionary whose work continues to change one’s perspective on the world. It’s an honor for me to have one of his most extraordinary texts be gifted to Penn State’s library.