Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon (Ph.D. Michigan State University 2002) is Assistant Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities and the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Birmingham at Alabama. In addition to her Ph.D. in English, she holds a B.A. in English from L’Ecole Normale Supérieure of Sousse in Tunisia. Her areas of specialization are postcolonialism, feminist literature and theory, Francophone film and literature, and the literatures of Africa with a specific emphasis on Islamic and Maghrebian studies. She has previously taught postcolonial, Maghrebian, and feminist literature at the University of Carthage and the University of the Center in Tunisia. She is author of The Production of the Muslim Woman: Negotiating Text History and Ideology (Lexington Books, 2005). Dr. Zayzafoon has also published articles, reviews, and poetry in various scholarly journals and anthologies including The International Journal of Francophone Studies, Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry, African Images: Recent Images in African Cinema and Literature, and Research in African Literature. Dr. Zayzafoon's article “Memory as Allegory: The Specter of Incest and the (Re)naming of the Father in Moufida Tlatli’s The Silences of the Palace (1994.)” will appear this fall in Critical Arts: A Journal of South -North Cultural and Media Studies. She is currently engaged in 3 interrelated research projects: Tunisian women under W.W.II.; the Holocaust in North African Literature and Film; and an autobiographical metaherstory entitled Filles de Charles de Gaulle, Filles de Bourguiba.
Foreign Languages and Literatures at UAB
