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Mona El Khoury

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Mona El Khoury

Assistant Professor

  • Department: French Studies and Modern Languages

Before joining AUP in 2024, Professor El Khoury was an Assistant Professor of French Studies at Tufts University.ÌęHer research deals with twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and Francophone cultures, literature, and theory (philosophy, psychoanalysis) with special emphasis on North Africa and the Middle East, as well as Metropolitan France. Her publications include her bookÌę(published in 2020 by Lexington Books), aÌęÌęon postcolonial ecocriticism (published in 2024 byÌęNouvelles Etudes Francophones), and several articles. She is a contributor of the online magazineÌęK. Jews, Europe, the XXIst century.

In addition to her academic career, Professor El Khoury is trained in clinical psychology.



Education/Degrees

- Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures. Harvard University, 2016.

- M.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures. Harvard University, 2010.

- Master in Philosophy. Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne/ ENS Ulm, 2006.

Publications

Books

- Migrations humaines et mutations environnementales. Convergences et divergences du postcolonialisme et de l’écocritique. Co-edited with Dr. Nikhita Obeegadoo. InÌęNouvelles Etudes Francophones,ÌęUniversity of Nebraska Press, 2024.

- Remnants of the Franco-Algerian Rupture: Archiving Postcolonial Minorities, Lexington Books, series “After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France,” 2020.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

- “Lampedusa, ou la nuit de l’Europe.ÌęĂ  ce stade de la nuitÌęde Maylis de Kerengal.”ÌęFrench Cultural Studies. Volume 30:1 (2019): 65-79.

- “ ImpĂ©rialismes alternatifs: Le cosmopolitisme dansÌęKamal JannÌęde Dominique EddĂ©.”ÌęInternational Journal of Francophone Studies. Volume 21, Numbers 1&2 (2018): 69-86.

- “To Be or Not To Be ‘MĂ©tis:’ Nina Bouraoui’s embodied memory of the colonial fracture.”Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities: “Women Writing Across Cultures: Present, Past, Future,” 22.1 (2017): 123-135.

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Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

- “Seeking Paths to Existence in Rachid DjaĂŻdani’s filmÌęRengaine.”ÌęMaghrebi immigration in French literature and film: Transmediterranean conversations. Ed. Patrick Saveau and Veronique Machelidon. Manchester: Manchester University Press (2018): 77-96.

- “To Be or Not To Be ‘MĂ©tis:’ Nina Bouraoui’s embodied memory of the colonial fracture.”ÌęWomen Writing Across Cultures. Present, Past, Future. Ed. Pelagia Goulimari. London: Routledge (2018): 123-135. [Reprint]

- “PagliÌęd’Ananda Devi. La recherche d’un sol hybride insulaire.”ÌęFert-Ăźles 2. L’occupation littĂ©raire des sols insulaires. Ed. Jacques Isolery (CNRS Laboratoire LISA – UMR 6240). Bastia: Stamperia Sammarcelli-UniversitĂ  di Corsica (2014): 125-138.

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Book Reviews

- CalargĂ©, Carla.ÌęLiban.ÌęMĂ©moires fragmentĂ©es d’une guerre obsĂ©dante. L’anamnĂšse dans la production culturelle francophone (2000-2015). Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2017. InÌęNouvelles Études Francophones, Volume 34, Numéro 2, 2019, pp. 196-200

- Connolly, Aoife.ÌęPerforming the ‘Pied-Noir’ Family: Constructing Narratives of Settler Memory and Identity in Literature and On-Screen. Lanham, MD: Lexington, “After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France,” 2020. InÌęFrench Studies, Vol. LXXVI, No. I, 1, 2021.Ìę

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Conference Proceedings

- “Une mise en rĂ©cit multidirectionnelle: La filiation harkie dans Moze de Zahia Rahmani.”ÌęDĂ©racinĂ©s, exilĂ©s, rapatriĂ©s? S’organiser, transmettre, mettre en rĂ©cit. Ed. Olivier Dard and Anne Dulphy. London: Peter Lang (2022).

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Creative Writing

- “Mamie-louche.”ÌęK. Les Juifs, l’Europe, le XXIe siĂšcleÌę(K. Jews, Europe, the XXIst century). May 2021.Ìę[English translation:ÌęÌę]

- “Jonas.”ÌęK. Les Juifs, l’Europe, le XXIe siĂšcleÌę(K. Jews, Europe, the XXIst century). January 2022.ÌęÌę[English translationÌę:Ìę]

- “Lignes de failles.”ÌęK. Les Juifs, l’Europe, le XXIe siĂšcleÌę(K. Jews, Europe, the XXIst century). December 2022.Ìę[English translation:Ìę

Affiliations

Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones, African Literature Association, Woman in French, Etudes Françaises et Francophones des 20iùme et 21iùme siùcles, Society for the Study of French History, Modern Languages Association.

Research Areas

  • 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone Literatures and Cultures
  • Migrations
  • Jewish and Arab Diasporas and Minorities
  • Trauma and Memory
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Creative Writing
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Cultural Studies

Awards, Fellowships and Grants

  • Visiting Scholar in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. 2018-2020.
  • Center for the Humanities at Tufts Faculty Fellowship. 2017-2018.
  • Nominations for “Best course” and “Significant Impact.” Senior Survey 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. Office of Institutional Research, Tufts.
  • Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Harvard. 2014-2015.
  • Merit/Term Time Research Fellowship, Harvard. 2014.
  • Romance Languages and Literatures Traveling Fellowship at the Ecole Normale SupĂ©rieure, rue d’Ulm (Paris, France). Harvard. 2012, 2013, 2014.
  • Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Teaching Prize. Harvard University. 2012.
  • Departmental Summer Grant, Harvard. 2012. 2013
  • Derek Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. 2011, 2012, 2013.
  • Harvard Graduate Society Summer Predissertation Fellowship, Summer 2010.
  • Middlebury College Scholarship, 2007-2008.