Notes on Contributors
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Anne Donadey is Professor of European Studies and Women’s Studies at San Diego State University. She is the author of a book on Assia Djebar and Leila Sabbar, Recasting Postcolonialism: Women Writing Between Worlds (Heineman 2001), co-editor with H. Adlai Murdoch of Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies (University Press of Florida, 2005) and editor of a special issue of L’Esprit créateur on the works of Assia Djebar (Winter 2008). She has also published articles on the current state of feminist literary studies, and on the works of Fatima Mernissi, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Maryse Condé, Daniel Maximin, Azar Nafisi, Octavia E. Butler, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Recent articles have appeared in Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Research in African Literature, College Literature, The International Journal of Francophone Studies, and the French Review.
Katherine Gantz is Associate Professor of French at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Her published work includes “‘Une langue étrangère’: Translating Sex and Race in Rachilde’s La Jongleuse,” The French Review 81.5 (April 2008): 944–954. Her chapter, “Concrete Criticism: Annotation and Transformation in Haussmannized Paris,” will appear in the forthcoming Hexagonal Variations: Diversity, Plurality and Reinvention in Contemporary French Studies (eds. Jo McCormack, Murray Pratt, Alistair Rolls. New York: Rodopi, 2010).
Mary Jean Green is Professor of French, Comparative Literature, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College, where she has held the Edward Tuck Chair of French. She has written extensively on women writers of the francophone world, having participated in editing the 1996 essay collection, Postcolonial Subjects: Francophone Women Writers. Founding editor of the journal Québec Studies, she has focused on Quebec women writers in her last two books, Marie-Claire Blais and Women and Narrative Identity: Rewriting the Quebec National Text. More recently, building on her experience directing foreign study programs in Morocco, she has published on novels and film from the Maghreb. Her current book project, on the rewriting of history in fiction by francophone women, will focus on Assia Djebar, as well as Maryse Condé and Régine Robin.
Mohammed Hirchi teaches Arabic and French languages, literatures and cultures at Colorado State University. He is involved with Colorado State’s Middle East/North Africa Option and Study Abroad. His research focuses on the literatures and cultures of North Africa, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and France. He has published articles on topics including panafricanism, negritude and political Islam, and authors such as Assia Djebar, Driss Chraïbi, Abdelhaq Serhane, Abdourahman Waberi, Mohamed Hmoudane. He has also written on films such as Indigènes, Ali Zaoua, and Casanegra.
Brian Martin is an Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Williams College. His book Napoleonic Friendship was published by UPNE in 2010. [End Page 133]
Valérie Orlando is Professor of French & Francophone Literatures in the Department of French & Italian and Director of Honors Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of four books: Nomadic Voices of Exile: Feminine Identity in Francophone Literature of the Maghreb (Ohio University Press, 1999), Of Suffocated Hearts and Tortured Souls: Seeking Subjecthood Through Madness in Francophone Women’s Writing of Africa and the Caribbean (Lexington Books, 2003), Francophone Voices of the ‘New Morocco’ in Film and Print: (Re)presenting a Society in Transition (Palgrave-Macmillan 2009), and Screening Morocco: Contemporary Film in a Changing Society (forthcoming, Ohio University Press, 2011). She has written numerous articles on Francophone women’s writing from the African diaspora, African Cinema, and French literature and culture. She was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Grant to Morocco and Tunisia in Spring 2007 and an American Institute of Maghrebi Studies (AIMS) grant for May–June 2009.
Mireille Rosello teaches at the University of Amsterdam in the comparative studies program and the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Her most recent publications are The Reparative in Narratives: Works of Mourning in Progress (2009), France and the Maghreb: Performative Encounters (2005) and Postcolonial Hospitality: the Immigrant as Guest (2001). She is currently working on a collection of essays on European multilingualisms and on “What’s queer about Europe” (co-edited with S. Dasgupta).
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