Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon: (Ph.D 2002) 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-colonialism, feminist literature and theory, Francophone film and literature, and the literatures of Africa with a specific emphasis on Maghrebian studies. Prior to her current appointment at UAB Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Dr. Ben Youssef Zayzafoon had been teaching American and British Literature at the University of Carthage and the University of the Center (Sousse) in Tunisia.
ACADEMIC INTERESTS
Tunisian Women during W.W.II.
The Holocaust in Maghribi Literature
The Jew and the Arab as Native Other in the Battle of Tunisgrad
The Jew and the Arab in Western Literature, Arts and Popular Culture
The Pitfalls of Cultural Diversity in U.S. Higher Education
Foreign Culture Pedagogy
Creative Writing
PUBLICATIONS
Books
1. The Production of the Muslim Woman: Negotiating Text, History and Ideology. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005
2. The Harlot with a Ph.D.: 30 Testimonies from Around the Globe. Co-edited volume with Dr. Sheri Spaine Long, under review.
3. The Women of Algiers Gaze Back (a postcolonial feminist play), under review.
4. Filles de Charles de Gaulle, Filles de Bourguiba, work in progress.
Scholarly Articles:
1. “Anne Frank Goes East: The Algerian Civil War and the Ad Nauseam of Postcoloniality in Shurufat bahr al shamal (Balconies of the North Sea)," Embargoed Literature: The Case of Arabic, Editor Mustapha Marrouchi, Special Issue of College Literature, Winter 2010. Forthcoming.
2. “When L’Essence Arrose de Haine: The Reinvention of Identity in Francophone Tunisian Literature,” The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in the Francophone World, Editor Nathalie Debrauwere-Miller, Routledge Publication, 2009. Forthcoming.
3. “Memory as Allegory: The Specter of Incest and the (Re)naming of the Father in Moufida Tlatli’s The Silences of the Palace (1994),” Critical Arts: A Journal for South-North Cultural and Media Studies 21.1 (July 2007): 47-67, Special Issue by Routledge Publications, Editor Lena Jayyusi.
4. “The Violence of Remembering and Forgetting: Gender, Nation and Narration in the Aesthetic Reception of Dido/Elissa.” Intellect: The International Journal of Francophone Studies 8.1 (2005): 71-84.
5. “On the ‘Raciness of Wit,’ Domesticity and Imperialism in George Eliot's Adam Bede," Published in English Studies Series of Sousse: Procedures of the English Department’s 2003 Annual Conference on “Irony,” Vol 3 September 2005, Editor Hedi Sioud.
6. “Race, Gender, and Islam in Two North African Folktales: Marguerite Taos Amrouche’s Le Grain Magique and Abdelaziz Aroui’s The Black Merchant.” Published in African Images: Recent Studies in Cinema and Text, Published Proceedings of the Twenty-third Annual Conference of the African Literature Association,” "FESPACO Nights in Michigan,” April 1997 in East Lansing, MI, Africa World Press, 2000.