Jennifer Howell
She earned her doctorate in French and Francophone World Studies in 2010 from the University of Iowa and is currently an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Illinois State University. Her research and teaching primarily focus on the Francophone literatures and cultures of North Africa and of the Vietnamese diaspora, the graphic novel, photography, and crime fiction. She is specifically interested in how political trauma is historicized, remembered, and transmitted via popular culture and the visual arts. Her articles have appeared in various journals, including Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Journal of North African Studies, Modern and Contemporary France, Women in French Studies, European Comic Art, French Review, and French Cultural Studies. In 2015, she published her first book, The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity, with Lexington Books. At present, she is working on a second monograph, which explores the representation of social justice in contemporary North African crime fiction.
She earned her doctorate in French and Francophone World Studies in 2010 from the University of Iowa and is currently an Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Illinois State University. Her research and teaching primarily focus on the Francophone literatures and cultures of North Africa and of the Vietnamese diaspora, the graphic novel, photography, and crime fiction. She is specifically interested in how political trauma is historicized, remembered, and transmitted via popular culture and the visual arts. Her articles have appeared in various journals, including Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Journal of North African Studies, Modern and Contemporary France, Women in French Studies, European Comic Art, French Review, and French Cultural Studies. In 2015, she published her first book, The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity, with Lexington Books. At present, she is working on a second monograph, which explores the representation of social justice in contemporary North African crime fiction.