Education

B.A. Rice University (1995)
M.A. University of Michigan, Comparative Literature (1998)
Ph.D. University of Michigan, Comparative Literature (2001)

Areas of Expertise

Contemporary Literature from North Africa
Clandestine Migration in Literature and Art
Museums in Africa and the Middle East
Contemporary Art from North Africa
Postcolonial Theory from the Francophone World

Scholarship/Creative Work

Books

Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Morocco, (University of Minnesota Press, January 2010).

Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature: Remapping Uncertain Territories, co-edited with Magali Compan, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).

Edited Journal Issue

Africanity in North African Visual Culture. Special Issue of Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture 5 (Spring 2010). Co-edited with Jessica Winegar.

Selected Articles

“Art Museums and Memories of Modernity: Crumbling National Discourses of the Modern in Contemporary Morocco” in A Companion to Modern African Art edited by Monica Visona and Gitti Salami (London: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming).

“Actions sur le corps social: Engagements, invitations et rencontres” in Hassan Darsi: L’action et l’œuvre en projet (Casablanca: Editions Le Fennec, 2011).

“Nostalgia and the New Cosmopolitan: Literary and Artistic Interventions in the City of Casablanca” Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature 33.1 (Winter 2009).

“Art in the Streets: Modern Art, Museum Practice and the Urban Environment in Contemporary Morocco” MESA Bulletin (forthcoming Summer 2008).

“Ruins, Rumors and Traces of the City of Brass: Moroccan Modernity and Memories of the Arab Global City” Research in African Literatures 38.4 (Winter 2007): 187-203

“Bodies on the Beach: Youssef Elalamy and Moroccan Landscapes of the Clandestine,” Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature: Remapping Uncertain Territories, Katarzyna Pieprzak and Magali Compan ed, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007): 104-122.

“Citizens and Subjects in the Bank: Corporate Visions of Modern Art and Moroccan Identity”
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa: Essays on Contemporary History, Culture and Politics, James McDougall ed. (London: Frank Cass, 2003) and Journal of North African Studies 8.1 (Spring 2003): 131-152.

“Whose Patrimony Is It Anyway? The Quarrel between Ali Baba’s Cave and the National
Museums of Morocco,” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature No. 49 (Fall 2001): 155-174.

Awards, Fellowships & Grants

Getty Foundation Summer Institute Fellowship in Istanbul on “Constructing the Past in the Middle East” (2006)

Committees

Comparative Literature Program (2011-2012)