Publications
BOOK
Contesting the Classroom: Reimagining Education in Algerian and Moroccan Literatures. Liverpool University Press, November, 2019.
Contesting the Classroom is the first scholarly work to analyze both how Algerian and Moroccan novels depict the postcolonial classroom, and how postcolonial literatures are taught in Morocco and Algeria. Drawing on a corpus of contemporary novels in French and Arabic, it shows that authors imagined the fictional classroom as a pluralistic and inclusive space, often at odds with the narrow nationalist vision of postcolonial identity. In illuminating this literary corpus, Contesting the Classroom shows that novels about the school are an important source of counter-narrative about education and national identity. At the same time, by demonstrating how education has influenced writing styles, this work reframes the classroom as a necessary cultural context for scholars of postcolonial literature.
ARTICLES
“Gender, genre, and literary firsts: the case of Zhor Wanisi and Ahlam Mosteghanemi,”
The Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, 2019. pp 286-306.
“Multiplying Women’s Voices: Writing Across Language Boundaries in Leila Abouzeid’s The Last Chapter,” Research in African Literatures, vol. 48, no.4, 2017. pp 209- 224.
“Satiric Literature for an Education System in Crisis: Mohamed Nedali’s Grâce à Jean de la Fontaine!,” French Forum. Vol 42, No 2. 2017, pp 281-297
“Literature and Amazigh Language Debates: The Case of Moroccan Amazigh Literature in ‘Other’ Languages,” The Journal of North African Studies, vol. 22, no. 4. 2017, pp 536-559.
“Authorial Positioning Systems: Abdelhak Serhane and Moroccan Intertext,” Francosphères, vol. 5, no. 2, December 2016, pp 137- 150.
“Investigating a Disappearance: Multilingualism and Language Erasure in Assia Djebar’s La disparition de la langue française,” Romanic Review, vol. 106, no. 1-2, Jan-Nov 2015, pp. 93-102.
