Research Interests

  • Immigration, ethnicity, and national identity in modern and contemporary France
  • 19th-, 20th-, and 21st-century French literature
  • Francophone Literature of the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa
  • Intersections of media studies, urban studies, and visual culture 
  • Narratives of war, revolt, and revolution
  • Colonial, Post-Colonial, and Diaspora Studies

Articles

  • “Staging Masculinity for the Lens: Performing ‘les jeunes de banlieues’ in Mohamed Bourouissa’s Directorial Photography,” Contemporary French Civilization 41.1 (2016): 69-93.
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  • “Fashioning the ‘Born Criminal’ on the Beat: Juridical Photography and the Police municipale in Fin-de-Siècle Paris,” Modern and Contemporary France 21.3 (2013): 281-96.

Projects in Progress

  • Book project on the intersections of engaged photography with other cultural production in the French banlieues
  • Articles on Azouz Begag’s political memoirs,Yasmina Reza’s « Art », and engaged photographic representations of contemporary French urban space

Selected Recent and Upcoming Conference Presentations

  • “Parergon Shift: Architecture-as-Frame as Subject in JR’s 28 millimètres” 20th and 21st Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Mar. 2016, St. Louis, MO

  • Discussant, Round table on “French Cultural Studies: A View from the Field(s),” 40 Years of Contemporary French Civilization Conference, Sep. 2015, Baltimore, MD

  • “The Alternate Reality of the Banlieue 13 Duology: Ripple Effects of the 2005 Riots”
    20th and 21st Century French & Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Feb. 2015, Baton Rouge, LA

  • “No Fate But What We Make? Questioning Free Will and Destiny in the Bande Dessinée Diptych L’Alternative”
    The 42nd Annual Conference of the Western Society for French History, Nov. 2014, San Antonio, TX