Olivier Bourderionnet

Olivier Bourderionnet is Professor of French and Graduate Coordinator for Romance Languages. He teaches courses on contemporary French literature and culture, French cinema and pop culture. His first book, Swing Troubadour. Vian, Brassens, Gainsbourg: les Trente Glorieuses en 33 tours (Summa Pub, 2011), examines the transformation of post-Second World War France through the prism of popular music and the impact of jazz on French chanson. His new book, Serge Gainsbourg an International Perspective (Bloomsbury 2024), co-edited with Olivier Julien (Sorbonne Université), is the first English-language academic study devoted entirely to French artist Serge Gainsbourg.

Bourderionnet has contributed numerous book chapters to French and American volumes on the topics of French popular music and French cultural studies. His articles have appeared in Research in African Literatures, French Cultural Studies, Volume! La revue des musiques populaires, CFFS, and The World Journal of Popular Music.

Olivier Bourderionnet received a Licence d'anglais from the University of Paris III (La Sorbonne Nouvelle), a Master of Arts from the University of New Orleans, and a Ph.D. from Tulane University.