PUBLICATIONS

  • “Fictionalizing Fiction and Kamel Daoud’s Metaphor of (De)Construction in Meursault: contre-enquête” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature Vol. 43: Iss. 2, Article 39. 2019. https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.2039
  • “Maternal Metaphor in Kamel Daoud’s Recasting of Camus’s L’Étranger. Postcolonial Text. Vol 15, No 1 (2020) https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/article/view/2417/2352
  • “Palimpsest in the Rap Lyrics of Abd Al Malik: Rejuvenating the Study of Poetry.” Co-authored with Rider senior honors student, Cameron Cook. The French Review 4 (May 2017): 159-70.
  • “Reframing Guy de Maupassant’s ‘Allouma’ through the Lens of Assia Djebar: Postcolonial Algeria Confronts Colonial France.” Dalhousie French Studies 94 (spring 2011): 141-8.
  • “Landscape, Identity, and Sexuality: Tituba as Candide in Maryse Condé’s Moi, Tituba, sorcière. . . Noire de Salem.” In Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature. Eds. Magali Compan and Kashia Pieprzak. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
  • “Moving Beyond the Real: Maupassant’s Aborted Flight to Mars.” The French Review3 (February 2004): 538-47.
  • Voices of Authority: The Criminal Obsession in Guy de Maupassant’s Short Works. New York: Peter Lang Press, 1994.

PUBLISHED REVIEWS  Book reviews published in The French Review, L’érudit franco-espagnol, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, Dalhousie French Studies, Nineteenth Century French Studies, The South Atlantic Review:

  • Githire, Njeri. Cannibal Writes: Eating Others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women’s Writing. Chicago: U. Illinois Press, 2014. In The French Review 4 (May 2017): 232-3.
  • Brix, Michel. Histoire de la littérature française: Voyage guidé dans les lettres du XIe au XXe siècle. In The French Review 1 (October 2016): 193-4.
  • Julien, Anne Yvonne, éd. Littératures québécoise et acadienne contemporaines: Au prisme de la ville. Presse universitaire de Rennes, 2014. In The French Review 1 (May 2016): 194.
  • Khordoc, Catherine. Tours et détours: le mythe de Babel dans la littérature
  • contemporaine. Ottawa: PU d’Ottawa, 2012. In The French Review1 (October 2014), 233-4.
  • El Nossery, Névine. Témoignages fictionnels au féminin: Une réécriture des blancs de la guerre civile algérienne, by Névine El Nossery. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. In L’érudit franco-espagnol, 4 (fall 2013): 101-2.
  • François, Anne M. Rewriting the Return to Africa. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 2011. In The French Review1 (October 2013): 221-2.
  • Diop, Papa Samba. La poésie d’Aimé Césaire: propositions de lecture accompagnées d’un lexique de l’oeuvre. Paris: Champion, 2010. In The French Review2 (November 2012): 384.
  • Connon, Daisy. Subjects Not-at-home: Forms of the Uncanny in the Contemporary French Novel—Emmanuel Carrère, Marie NDiaye, Eugène Savitzkaya. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. In The French Review4 (March 2012): 749-50.
  • Paban, Gabrielle de. Le Nègre et la créole, ou Mémoires d’Eulalie D***. Marshall C. Olds. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008. In The French Review 84.3 (February 2011): 581-2.
  • Simonet-Tenant, Françoise. Journal personnel et correspondance (1785-1939) ou les affinités électives. Louvain-La-Neuve: Academia Bruylant, 2009. In Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 3 (Summer 2010): 567-9.
  • Salvodon, Marjorie Attignol. Fictions of Childhood: The Roots of Identity in Contemporary French Narratives. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. In The French Review.3 (February 2010): 647-8.
  • Birkett, Mary Ellen and Rivers, Christopher. Approaches to Teaching Duras’s Ourika. New York: MLA, 2009. In Dalhousie French Studies. (2010).
  • Popkin, Debra, ed. Francophone Women Coming of Age: Memoirs of Childhood and Adolescence from France, Africa, Quebec and the Caribbean. Cambridge UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. In The French Review1 (October 2009): 150-1.
  • Simek, Nicole. Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation. Francopolyphonies 7. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2008. In The French Review5 (April 2011): 1049-50.
  • Reviewed first English translation of Balzac’s The Centenarian: Or, The Two Beringhelds. Chatelain, Danièle and George Slusser. In Nineteenth Century French Studies1/2 (fall-winter 2007-08): 160-1.
  • Guenther, Beatrice Martina. The Poetics of Death: The Short Prose of Kleist and Balzac. In Nineteenth Century French Studies. 26.1/2. (fall-winter 1997-98): 222-224.
  • Giacchetti, Claudine. Maupassant: Espaces du roman. The South Atlantic Review2 (May 1994): 164-6.