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Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon The University of Alabama at Birmingham Book reviewer for H-Gender-Mideast |
| List Affiliations: | Advisory Board Member for H-Gender-MidEast List Editor for H-AfrLitCine Reviewer for H-Gender-MidEast |
| Reviews: | Postcolonial, Feminist, and Islamic Studies Portrait of the Artist as a North African Man |
| Interests: | Archaeology Colonial and Post-Colonial History / Studies Film and Film History Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Islamic History / Studies Literature Oral History Religious Studies and Theology Visual Studies Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
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Bio: (Ph.D. 2002) is an assistant professor at UAB Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. She holds a B.A. in English from L'École Normale Supérieure of Sousse in Tunisia and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University. Her areas of specialization are post-coloniality, feminist theory and African literature with a specific emphasis on the Maghreb. Prior to coming to UAB, she taught British, American, and postcolonial Literature at the University of Carthage and the University of the Center (Sousse) in Tunisia. Her current research projects are: the Holocaust in North African Literature and Tunisian women during W.W.II. Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon is Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is author of the Production of the Muslim Woman: Negotiating Text, History and Ideology (Lexington Press 2005). Her most recent article is “Anne Frank Goes East: The Algerian Civil War and the Nausea of Postcoloniality in Waciny Laredj’s Balconies of the North Sea” (2010) and “Teaching about Women and Islam in North Africa: Integrating Postcolonial Feminist Theory in Foreign Culture Pedagogy” (2011). Her most recent paper came out in summer 2012: “Is it the End of State Feminism? Tunisian Women During and After the January 14 Revolution” in a collection of essays on the Tunisian Revolution published in Melbourne University Press. |
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