About
Larbi Touaf Hold a PhD and a Master’s (DEA) degrees from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (1997). He is currently Professor and former chair of the English Department at Mohammed I University, Oujda, Morocco. Dr. Touaf has studied, taught and lectured in Morocco, France and the USA. He is a 2011 Maxwell School of Public Affairs Fellow (Syracuse University) and a Fulbright visiting Scholar at SUNY Cortland for 2013-14. He founded and coordinates The Identity and Difference Research Group at his university. In addition to many articles and book chapters, Dr. Touaf has published a number of co-edited books among which Minority Matters: Literature, Theory, Society (2005), Representing Minorities: Studies in Literature and Criticism (2006), The World as A Global Agora: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (2008) and North African Women after the Arab Spring: in the Eye of the Storm (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Dr. Touaf is also a translator; his latest work in this field is Lucy Melbourne’s An American In Morocco/ Une Americaine au Maroc (2008).
Education
Sorbonne University, Paris. Publications
Minority Matters: Literature, Theory, Society (2005),
Representing Minorities: Studies in Literature and Criticism (2006),
The World as A Global Agora: Critical Perspectives on Public Space (2008)
North African Women after the Arab Spring: in the Eye of the Storm (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
