2006-present

FREN242: Francophone Writers of Africa and the African Diaspora in Translation (taught in English)

FREN243: Masterpieces in French and Francophone Cinema (taught in English)

FREN301: Style et Composition (taught in French)

FREN302: French Practicum in Translation I (taught in French)

FREN404: “Beur & Banlieue Literature & Cinema in Contemporary France” (taught in French in Nice, France, Maryland-in-Nice Program)

FREN488a: “Imaginary and Memory in the Reality of Francophone African Film from 1960 to the present” (taught in English)

FREN488b: Topics in Francophone Literature (Taught in French)

FREN699A: La folie dans la littérature des femmes de l’Afrique et des Caraïbes (Graduate Seminar, taught in French)

FREN699B : Théories, Philosophies et Textes Révolutionnaires du Monde Francophone (Graduate Seminar, taught in French)

FR899: Independent Study on Literature of the Mashreq with PhD student (taught in French)

 

External Grants

(National and International Institutions, Foundations, and Organizations)

 

“Making Connections Grant,” Michigan State University (2009)

Senior Scholar advising and working with Professor Safoi Babana-Hampton on the translation 

into English of “Correspondance: Abdellkébir Khatibi et Rita El Khayat” ($1,000 honorarium)

 

The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) & Tangier American Legation 

Museum (TALM) 

Grant (for May 25-June 30, 2009)

Title of Project: “Screening Morocco: Filmic Depictions of a Changing Society” ($3,375)

 

Fulbright Grant, (Middle East/South Asia Regional Research Program) to Morocco & Tunisia (Jan-July, 2007)

Title of Project: “Publishing Women: The Space and Place of Feminine Francophone Writing in Contemporary Morocco and Tunisia” ($29,000)

 

NEH 2005 Summer Institute on African Cinema, Dakar, Senegal 

(June 8-July 6, 2005)

Directors: Manthia Diawara and Mbye Cham

Title of individual project: “Women in African Cinema: Challenges and Triumphs” (course/syllabus development project; $5,000)

 

Fulbright-Hays 2004, Morocco, Summer Seminar Award, Morocco (June 29-August 14, 2004), “The Challenges and Triumphs of Moroccan Women,” MACECE (Moroccan-American Commission for Education and Cultural Exchange);  Title of Individual Project: “Femin(ine)ist Dialogues: Women and the Role of the French Language in Contemporary Morocco”, See: http://macece.bizland.com/FHS2004/Projects.html ($4,500)

 

Internal Grants

(University of Maryland)

International Travel Award Grant to Morocco, $1,401 (Spring 2009)

DRIF award, for the organization of a Colloquium on Francophone Literature of the Maghreb, $5,000 (Fall 2007)

International Activities Grant to invite Algerian Playwright, Alek Toumi Baylee, 2007, $2,000 (Spring 2007)

Driskell Center Award for Course Competition 2007, $1,500 (Fall 2007)

GRB Award, $4,375 (Summer 2007)

GRB Award for Research Materials, $500 (Summer 2007)

DRIF award, for the organization of a Symposium on Haiti, $6,800 (Fall 2006)

 

Chelea, Rabat, Morocco, 2007