College of Arts and Sciences

CULTURAL STUDIES AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE FACULTY

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Mireille Rebeiz

 Assistant Professor

Ph.D. – Florida State University – 2012

mireille.rebeiz@stonybrook.edu | 1147 Humanities

20th- & 21st-century francophone literature from the Maghreb and the Mashreq, contemporary Arabic literature, war literature by women. Literature and human rights, Beur literature, postcolonial cultures in France, critical theory.

In my teaching, I focus on texts from the Levant and North Africa written in Arabic or French and authors like Andrée Chedid, Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Evelyne Accad, Samar Yazbek, Nihad Sirees, Salwa Bakr, Laila Lalami, Albert Camus, Mouloud Feraoun, Assia Djebar, Leila Sebbar, Malika Mokeddem, Yasmina Khadra and others.

I offer courses on: the intersection between law and literature especially in the context of war and terrorism; postcolonial cultures in France and the rise of a hybrid culture and a new generation of street-artists, rap and hip-hop musicians, writers and film-makers.

In my book project, I examine the works produced by Lebanese women writers of French expression in response to the civil war in Lebanon. I draw on a range of theoretical approaches, notably in the fields of women and gender studies, feminist studies and female disability studies, postcolonial studies, trauma studies, narratology and structuralism, postmodernism and magical realism.