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Naima Hachad Associate Professor World Languages and Cultures

Additional Positions at AU
Director, French Program
Degrees
PhD, French (with a certificate in Comparative Literature), Emory University.

MA; BA, Universit茅 de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France.

Favorite Spot on Campus
Davenport Coffee Lounge
Book Currently Reading
Politiques de l'inimiti茅 by Achille Mbembe
Bio
Dr. Hachad鈥檚 research focuses on issues of gender and sexuality, autobiography and testimony, and the representation and memorialization of violence in cultural productions of the Maghreb and the Caribbean. Her work in French and English on these issues was featured in journals such as The Journal of North African Studies, Etudes Francophones, Small Axe, Revue des sciences humaines, and The Journal of Middle Eastern Women Studies. She is also the author of Revisionary Narratives: Moroccan Women鈥檚 Auto/Biographical and Testimonial Acts (Liverpool University Press, 2019) and the editor of a special issue of Expressions Maghr茅bines entitled T茅moignage et r茅sistance dans les productions culturelles maghr茅bines (2021). The Journal of Middle Eastern Women Studies, The Journal of North African Studies, Etudes Francophones, Small Axe, and Revue des sciences humaines.
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Imagining the Good Life

  • FREN-323 Advanced French II

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

Selected Publications

BOOK

Revisionary Narratives: Moroccan Women鈥檚 Auto/Biographical and Testimonial Acts. Liverpool University Press (September 2019). 聽258 pages.

REFEREED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

  • 鈥淟a photo-broderie de Carolle B茅nitah : comm茅moration, transgression et r茅invention de soi.鈥 Expressions Maghr茅bines. 19/1 (茅t茅 2020): 49-69.
  • Narrating Tazmamart: Visceral Contestations of Morocco鈥檚 Transitional Justice and Democracy.鈥 The Journal of North African Studies. 23/1-2 (Online publication: November 2017/ Print: Spring 2018): 208-224.
  • 鈥淢onstrous Offspring: Disturbing Bodies in Feminine Moroccan Literature Written in French鈥 in Vitality and dynamism: Interstitial Dialogues of Language, Politics, and Religion in Morocco鈥檚 Literary Tradition, Bratt, Kirtsin Ruth; Elbousty, Youness; Stewart, Devin ed. Leiden University Press, September 2014, 105-135.
  • 鈥淏orders and bridges: configuring the feminine in Lalla Essaydi鈥檚 photography.鈥 贵谤补苍肠辞蝉辫丑猫谤别蝉. 2/1 (June 2013): 87-103.
  • 鈥淧aroles de l鈥檃b卯me聽d鈥橢douard Glissant et d鈥橝bdelk茅bir Khatibi.鈥 Revue des sciences humaines. 309 (January-March, 2013) : 125-140.
  • 鈥溾楧茅gage !鈥 C鈥檈st la r茅volution. En guise de manifeste pour les r茅voltes arabes de 2010-2012.鈥 Revue Lignes. 40 (February, 2013) :131-150.
  • 鈥淰ictor Anicet: Le pays-Martinique; ou, Le bleu de la Restitution.鈥 Co-authored with Val茅rie Loichot. Small Axe聽: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 16聽: 3/39 (November, 2012)聽: 39-57.
  • 鈥淢猫re, m茅moire,聽mort聽: c茅l茅bration et sacrifice du corps maternel dans La M茅moire tatou茅e, Le Livre du sang et Amour bilingue d鈥橝bdelkebir Khatibi.鈥 Centre d鈥櫭塼udes des Litt茅ratures et des Arts d鈥橝frique du Nord Review. 9聽: 2/3 (Fall 2011)聽:103-119.
  • 鈥淎bdelkebir Khatibi聽: la mise 脿 l鈥櫭﹑reuve du corps au service d鈥檜ne 鈥榩ens茅e-autre鈥.鈥 Etudes Francophones. 24聽: 1/2 (Automne 2009) : 127-140.