‟Comment résister à l’imposture? Des voix engagées au cœur de la tourmenteˮ, Alternative Francophone, Issue : Fictions du terrorisme dans l’espace francophone, Vol. ‟Témoignages de la génération post-génocide au Rwanda : Transmission et quête dans Un papa de sang de Jean Hatzfeldˮ, Voix plurielles, Vol. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2018, pp. ‟Le viol de guerre vu par Koffi Kwahulé: entre thérapie et divertissementˮ, in La mémoire de la blessure au théâtre, Isabelle Ligier-Degauque et Anne Teulade (eds.). New York: Peter Lang, 2020 Journal Issue EditedĬo-editor (with Adina Balint) - Online journal issue (50%): ‟Écritures modernes et contemporaines de la peur et de la résistance”, nalyses, Vol. “Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literatureˮ. Loula Abd-elrazak et Valérie Dusaillant-Fernandes (dir.) La répétition dans les textes littéraires du Moyen Âge à nos jours, New York: Peter Lang, coll. Inscription du trauma dans la littérature contemporaine au féminin, New York: Peter Lang, 2020. Despite the range of political and social contexts and the different traumas experienced, it becomes clear in these texts that the child occupies a specific semiotic position in testifying to the cultural and moral crisis of post-colonial Africa. In the literature of sub-Saharan French African novels that I propose to study, the child is depicted as an observer, a victim, and sometimes an actor. The specific focus of this project will be narratives that represent the lived reality of marginalized African youth who are exploited and victimized by forces outside the law. In working on Mukasonga’s text, I decided to focus on the plight of children in situations of armed conflict and urban violence, more particularly in the literature of sub-Saharan French Africa. While maintaining my interest in the representation of trauma in literature, I am expanding the scope of my research to include the notion of collective trauma, as expressed, for example, by the author Scholastique Mukasonga, who writes about the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. I am also interested in the narratives of illness and intergenerational and transgenerational transmission in literature.
My research focuses on the field of contemporary autobiographical/autofictional narratives, particularly those related to personal and collective traumas. I specialize in 20th/21st French and Francophone Literature at the French Studies Department where I am active in both the undergraduate and graduate programs.
I explored the textual inscription of childhood trauma in the works of six contemporary French authors and analyzed how each author articulated the traumatic scene within the context of the narrative and which textual strategies were used to convey the obsessive memory of a private childhood traumas such as incest, mistreatment or the loss of parents. After completing this degree, I headed to the University of Toronto and successfully finished a PhD dissertation on the inscription of trauma in female autobiographical narratives in France since 1980.
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I returned to academia and developed a professional interest in 20 th and 21 st century French Literature during my Master at the University of Waterloo French Studies Department where I completed a thesis entitled : “Writing on the Body and Violence: Study of Selected Texts from Amélie Nothomb and Sylvie Germain”. in Paris (Sorbonne Nouvelle), before I moved to Canada where I started my career first as a teacher at the Alliance Française of Hamilton and then as a Marketing Coordinator/Translator in an environmental company in Guelph, specializing in impact assessment along with eco-toxicity testing and environmental technologies. I spent my childhood in France and completed a D.E.U.G.