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)