Subha Xavier

Assistant Professor of French

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Degrees

• -PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison; French and Francophone Literature, 2007
• -MA, University of Toronto; French Literature, 2000
• -BA, University of Toronto; Philosophy, 1998

 

Research Interests

 

• -Global French Literature (Francophone Literature)

• -Migration and Diaspora Studies

• -Postcolonial Theory

• -Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism

 

Selected Publications

 

• -“Entre féminisme et voyeurisme: L’éros migrant chez Calixthe Beyala,” Zizanie 1.1 (Forthcoming 2012).

• -La littérature migrante subsaharienne/Migrant Sub-Saharan Literature, ed. Subha Xavier and Papa Samba Diop, Editions Dominique Guéniot, Forthcoming 2012.

• -“Mehdi Charef and the Politics of French Immigration,” The French Review 84.2 (December 2010): 328-341.

• -“From Weltliteratur to Littérature-monde: Lessons from Goethe for the Francophone World,” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 14.1 (January 2010): 57-65.

• -“Le désir militant: Genet, Ben Jelloun et la défense des immigrés”, Transatlantique, Biblioteca della Ricerca Schena Editore, Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne, 2010: 107-114.

• -“La poétique du trauma chez Leïla Sebbar”, Trans 17 (January 2010).

• -“China and its Other: The Economy of Writing in Dai Sijie’s Le Complexe de Di.” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies34 No. 2 (September 2008): 63-85.

• -“Exiled Metaphors: Woman and Nation in Three Novels by Ying Chen,” International Journal of Canadian Studies 31 (Spring 2005): 37-56.

 

Courses taught 

 

• Undergraduate

• -FRE214: Advanced French

• -FRE 300: Nation on the Fault-lines: Haiti, Immigration and the Arts (Service Learning Course)
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  -FRE301: Intro to Literature and Culture in French
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  -FRE321: "L'oralité et la rébellion politique en Afrique" (Special Topics in Francophone Literature)
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  -FRE322: "Le français multi-langue" (Cultural Topics)
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  -FRE442: "La création littéraire en français langue étrangère" (Advanced Writing Workshop)
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  -FRE501: "La France et ses immigrés" (Capstone Seminar)

 

• Graduate

• -FRE675/MLL621: Failed Migrations in Afro-Caribbean Literature and Film
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• -FRE675: Literature from the two Congos
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  -FRE621: La Francophonie en Question
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  -FRE675: Les textes migrants de l'Afrique subsaharienne

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LINKS

• -Africana Studies http://www.as.miami.edu/africanastudies/