graduate research
these are some of the doctoral dissertations that I supervise(d).
Tales of the Civil Service:
Bureaucracy, Democracy, & Justice
in Francophone African Literature
PhD thesis, Imane Terhmina (2020)
(co-directed with Christopher Miller)
The Suicide Archives :
Literary Resistance in the Wake
of French Empire.
PhD thesis, Doyle Calhoun (2022)
Winner of the 2021 Ralph Cohen Prize, New Literary History
Speaking Sovereignties:
Multilingual Literature in Israel & the Maghreb
PhD thesis, Lital Abazon (in progress)
Sortir de l’urgence :
Esthétique et politique du roman algérien des années 90 et 2000
PhD thesis, Walid Bouchakour (in progress)
(co-directing with Alice Kaplan)
undergraduate research
these are the undergraduate theses that I have supervised.
Poetics of Silence :
Yamina Mechakra & Ananda Devi
Elias Bartholomew, French (BA 2016)
Writing Reconciliation :
Visions of Progressive Algerian Nationalism in al-Zilzal & Le dernier été de la raison
Alejandra Padín-Dujon,
Modern Middle East Studies (BA 2017)
Culinary Colonialism :
Writing Food in French Algeria
Nicholas Radell, French (BA 2018)
17 October 1961
& Agents of Archive
in Rachid Boudjedra’s Theater & Prose
Stella Shannon, Literature (BA 2018)
Memory Avenue :
French postcolonial identities
in Maillardville, BC
Vicky Liu, French (BA 2019)
Imperfect Circles :
Carceral textualities in Nedjma &
Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement
Griffin Berlin, Literature (BA 2021)
Politicopoetics of Relation :
Antillean Writers After Man
Irene Vásquez, Ethnicity, Race, & Migration / English (BA 2021)
Bouchet Undergraduate Fellow
La Seine au coeur de Paris
Fiona Benson, French (BA 2022)