Department of English and Comparative Literature/Department of Romance Languages
Courses Taught
CMPL 131 (Savage, Native, Stranger, Other)
ENGL 142 (Film Analysis)
FREN 101/FREN 102 (Elementary French) [Course Coordinator 2007-2008]
FREN 105 (French for Advanced Beginners)
FREN 203 (Intermediate French I)
FREN 260 (Introduction to Literature)
FREN 308 (Languages Across the Curriculum)
Research Interests
Racial Passing
Creole Identities
Race and Gender in Orientalist Literature
Violence, Eroticism, and Healing in Literature of War
Conference Presentations
"(De)Gradations of Alterity: Race, Masculinity, and the Africanist Presence in The Thousand and One Nights and Voyage en orient" 2005 Carolina Conference on Romance Literatures
"Warfare and Welfare: The Female Body as Locus of Communal Healing in Assia Djebar and Hanan al-Shaykh" 2006 SCLA Conference
"Pasé Pou Blan, Pasé Pou Nwè/Passing for White, Passing for Black: The Creole Woman and the Narrative of Racial Passing in Martinique" 2007 SAMLA Conference
"Goophers and Graves: Nomadism and Witchcraft in Charles Chesnutt and Isabelle Eberhardt" 2007 SCLA Conference
“L’enseignement de l’arabe et de l’arabofrancophonie aux États-Unis,” co-authored with Martine Antle, Franco-Arabic Cultures Today, April 2008.
"The Veil as Public Space in Ferid Boughedir's A Summer in La Goulette" 2008 MESA Conference
"LAC as a Means of Teaching Franco-Arab Cultures" 2008 CLAC Conference