Women's Studies Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Maya Boutaghou (a French and Algerian citizen) practices four languages (Arabic-English-French-Spanish), she completed her dissertation in Comparative Literature at the University of Limoges (France) exploring the link between the emergence of the novel and the construction of national and cultural identity in four major colonized areas (Australia-Bengal-Egypt-Mexico) at the end of the 19th century [Roman historique, novation littéraire et identité culturelle à l’aube du XXème siècle : autour de quatre romans historiques (Australie-Bengale-Égypte-Mexique) ]. She also gave talks and published papers on Francophone-Anglophone postcolonial female writers such as Assia Djebar, Anita Desai, Anada Devi. While completing her dissertation, she taught for some years in Tunisia (Univ. of Gabès) in the Department of French and Francophone Studies. She wrote a novel (Voyage d’Alger) —hopefully to be published in a not too far distant future— and is now involved in a new book-length research project, Emergent Female Voices.