She recently taught at Wagner College as visiting professor in the English Department and gave classes at New York University in the Media, Culture and Communication Department. She earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the New Sorbonne (Paris III) in 2005. Dr. Brezault's research focuses on the emerging trends in francophone African literature. She is the Assistant Editor of the academic journal, Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, and has published a collection of interviews with African writers as well as a book on Congolese writer Emmanuel Dongala’s novel, Johnny Mad Dog, about the recent civil war in Congo. She will be teaching French language classes and African francophone literature classes exploring various issues in colonial and post-colonial Africa.