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Curriculum Vitae Nabil Boudraa Department of World Languages and Cultures, Tel: (541) 737 3938 Oregon State University Cell: (541) 704 5403 210 Kidder Hall Corvallis, OR 97331 [email protected]

EDUCATION Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Ph.D. in French and Francophone studies, May 2002 Specialization in French, North African, Sub-Saharan and Caribbean literatures and cultures

Queens College & the Graduate Center of the City Universities of New York, NY Master’s degree in French Literature, December 1998

Queens College & the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Micefa Certificate (2-year exchange program between the Universities of Paris and the City Universities of New York), August 1995-June 1997

Paris VIII University, Paris, France Maîtrise (Master’s degree level) in American Studies, September 1993-June 1995 Degree completed at the Université de Caen, December 2008.

Bouzaréa University, Algiers, Algeria. Bachelor of Arts in English, September 1993

FELLOWSHIPS Fulbright Scholars Fellowship, Fall 2011 University of Algiers, Algeria,

Visiting Scholar fellowship, Sept.2001-Jun.2002 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts CMES (Center for Middle East Studies)

Selected participant in the Summer Institute of French Cultural Studies, June-July 2001 Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (Designed for junior faculty and advanced graduate students). Major theme: Visual Cultures and Curriculum Development

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (U.S.)

Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, 2009-present Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, 2003-2009

Visiting Assistant Professor, Purdue University, Indiana, August 2002- May 03 Introductions to Francophone Literatures and Advanced French courses

Teaching Assistant, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, January 1999-May 2001 Nabil Boudraa, Page 2

Intermediate and Advanced French courses

Lecturer, (Center for Unlimited Enrichment) Queens College, New York, January-Dec. 1998 Courses: American writers in Paris; a Journey through African literature

Adjunct lecturer at St John University and the New School for Social Research, New York January-December 1997 Intermediate and Advanced French courses

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (INTERNATIONAL)

 Fulbright Scholar at the University of Algiers, Algeria, September-December 2011. I taught courses in American studies, including “Special skills” and “Literary genres.”  Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France), February-March 2010. I gave a series of lectures on North African literature and culture to doctoral students and professors.  Selected Faculty and Academic Director, AHA Program in Fez, Morocco, June-July 2009. Advanced course on American representations of North Africa.  Visiting Professor of Francophone Studies at l’Université Lumière (Lyon II), France, September-October 2008. Intensive graduate seminar on Francophone North African literature. 10 graduate students.  Selected faculty, NCSA Angers Program (Université Catholique de l’Ouest, France), Fall 2007. Upper division French literature course, taught in both French and English on the French writers of the Loire Valley (19 students).

PUBLICATIONS Book manuscripts: Nabil Boudraa and Cécile Accilien, Francophone Cultures through Film (Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2013).

Edited Volumes: North African Mosaic: a Cultural Re-appraisal of Ethnic and Religious Minorities. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, England. July 2007. Co-editor with Dr. Joseph Krause.

Hommage à Kateb Yacine. Paris: Editions l’Harmattan, 2006.

To Topos/Poetry International: Guest editor for a special issue, entitled “North African Voices”, Volume VII. Corvallis: Poetry Enterprises, Spring 2005.

Book chapters: “Was Edward Said Right in Depicting Albert Camus as an Imperialist?” in Paradoxical Citizenship. Lanham: Lexington Books, May 2006, 187-200. (Editor: Sylvia Nagy-Zekmy).

Peer-reviewed Articles: “Les écrivains francophones du Maghreb face au problème de la langue,” in a special issue of the International Journal of Francophone Postcolonial Studies on Multilingual Francophone African Identities, edited by Charlotte Baker and Delphine Grass. Date of publication: Forthcoming, January 2015.

“Zebra” (Translation of a short story by Mouloud Mammeri, with introduction and notes), The International Journal of Francophone Studies. Fishponds: Intellect, volume 17, No 1, 2014, pp. 93-107.

“Intouchables” (Dossier pédagogique), The French Review, Vol. 88.2, December 2014.

“William Faulkner and the Francophone World.” The French Review (under review).

“Women in Algeria,” Women's Lives around the World: A Global Encyclopedia, (forthcoming, winter 2015). Nabil Boudraa, Page 3

“La Poésie Orale Berbère au Maroc.” Studi Magrebini. Vol. No. 2 (2004): 223-235. (Co-author Tassadit Yacine)

“Conversation autour de la littérature algérienne d’expression française: entretien avec Tassadit Yacine.” (interview), Mots Pluriels, No. 24 (June 2003).

Book Reviews: Najib Rédouane. Les Ecrivains Maghrébins Francophones et L’islam. NEF-Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, (forthcoming, winter 2015).

Brian T. Edwards. Morocco Bound. Journal of North African Studies, vol. 12, number 1, March 2007, 132-134.

Jane Goodman. Berber Culture on the World Stage. International Journal of African Historical Studies. Volume 40, 1, 2007, 168-169.

Aida Bamia. The Graying of the Raven: Cultural & Sociopolitical Significance of Algerian Folk Poetry. Arab Studies Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 2003), 147-149. http://www.arabstudiesjournal.org/book_reviews.cfm?reviewid=9

Translations: Collaborated with Jeff Humphries on his translation of The Collected Poems of Edouard Glissant. University of Minnesota Press, 2005. “The Writing of Tamazight.” Amazigh Voice, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 2003): 3-5. “The Berber dialects in Tunisia,” Amazigh Voice, Vol. 10, Nos. 3 and 4 (Winter 2002): 7-9.

Book manuscript under review: La poétique du paysage dans la littérature française et francophone.

Book manuscript in progress: Re-visioning History in North African Francophone Literature and Film.

Articles to be submitted soon: “The French Press and the U.S. Civil War, (perhaps to French Historical Studies, Duke University Press).

Other Publications: Eight film study guides for Applause Learning, June-September 2010. “Andrée Chédid.” Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (2004). Editor of a special issue on Berber francophone authors in Amazigh Voice. Volume 14, Issue 2. Boston: Publication of the Amazigh (Berber) Cultural Association in America, Spring 2006. Preface to Hacene Mariche’s taazzult iw (a poetry collection), Algiers, April 2008. Preface to Hacene Mariche’s Voluble Nights (a poetry collection), Algiers, May 2007. “Jean Amrouche.” Limag.com (September 2002). . “Tamazight and the Makhzen: One step forward, Ten steps backward.” Amazigh Voice, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Fall 2003):13. “Juba II, a Learned Amazigh King.” Amazigh Voice, Vol. 10, Nos. 3 and 4 (Winter 2002): 18. “Homage to Gabriel Camps.” Amazigh Voice, Vol. 11, Nos. 1 and 2 (Fall 2002): 10. Co-published a report with Christa Lex on the Social Development of Women in Swaziland. Presented by DDSMS (Unit at the United Nations) at the Beijing International Conference on Women, October 1996.

PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS INVITED TALKS  “North Africa Today: texts and contexts”, Oregon State University Cascades, Bend, November 6, 2014.

 “Un été à la Goulette,” University of Minnesota in Duluth, in film and speaker night series on equity, diversity and social justice, April 17, 2014. Nabil Boudraa, Page 4

 “Mouloud Feraoun and Kabylia”, Willamette University, French Department, March 31, 2014.

 “Black girl,” Oregon State University Academy for Lifelong Learning, Corvallis, February 11, 2014.

 “Les écrivains francophones du Maghreb face au problème de la langue,” at the ‘Multilingual French Identities’ Conference, Lancaster University, UK, January 24-25, 2014.  Invited to participate in a panel on Albert Camus at the North Eastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA), March 23, 2013.  Invited to participate in a panel on the Algerian Revolution, the Center for Middle East Studies, Portland State University, October 25, 2012.  Invited in a panel “Focus on North Africa” the Center for Middle East Studies, Portland State University, April 14, 2011.  Invited to lead a workshop at the Center for Middle East Studies, Portland State University, on July 20th, 2012, as part of their summer institute for middle and high school educators, entitled "Global Education through Film.”  Invited for a presentation “Peoples and Cultures of North Africa” by the OSU Lifelong Learning Academy, Corvallis,  April 29, 2011. Also “France and the Francophone World: Where is the Center now?” on January 27, 2011.  Invited to participate in a panel on African classics at the North Eastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA)  Annual Conference in New Brunswick, April 6, 2011. My talk is on Kateb’s Nedjma (as a founding text).  Invited as a speaker at a panel “La culture francophone: paroles et images,” CCFLT Conference, Denver, Colorado, February 26, 2009.  Invited for a presentation in the French department on “The Maghreb and globalization,” United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, February 27, 2009.  Invited as a keynote speaker by Willamette University to talk about the Franco-Algerian film, Indigènes (Days of Glory), November 5, 2008. The film deals with the North (and sub-Saharan) soldiers in World War II.  Guest lecturer at the UCLA Summer 2008 Workshop, designed for California teachers: “North Africa and Its Neighbors: A Dynamic Crossroads”, July 31, 2008. Title of presentation: Francophone Women's Writing of North Africa and the Diaspora.  Invited by the African Film Festival as keynote speaker to present and discuss the newly released film Indigènes, Portland, February 1, 2008.  Invited for a presentation to the graduate students in French, entitled “North African literature in French: from Kateb Yacine to Assia Djebar”, University of Washington, Seattle, January 15, 2007.  Invited for a talk “From the Local to the Universal: North African Mosaic in the Global World” at Linfield College, Oregon, May 4, 2006.  Invited for a presentation on the Berber Culture at the International Amazigh Festival, Santa Cruz, California, May 7, 2006.  Invited for a presentation on the “Francophone minority cultures and globalization” by the OSU Alumni Association, Corvallis, February 6, 2006.  Invited for a talk, “The Poetics of Landscape in Edouard Glissant, Kateb Yacine and William Faulkner” at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, April 19, 2002.

PUBLIC LECTURES  “Les écrivains maghrébins et le multilinguisme,” Congrès Mondial du Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 11-17, 2012.  Lecture on Algeria’s Berber issue, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer 2007 Institute, Oregon State University, July 11, 2007.  Berber Cinema, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer 2007 Institute, Oregon State University, July 12, 2007.  “The Natural World and Literature: from Albert Camus to Edward Abbey,” OSU Center for the Humanities, Corvallis, Oregon, April 23, 2007.  Chaired a panel at the International Conference “The Berbers and Other Minorities in North Africa: Nabil Boudraa, Page 5

A Cultural Re-appraisal” May 13-15, 2005, Portland, Oregon.  “Violence, métissage et partage dans Nedjma de Kateb Yacine” in 20th-21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Florida State University, Tallahassee, April 1, 2004.  Organized a lecture and a roundtable discussion with Dr. Tassadit Yacine on North African Women at Oregon State University, March 5th, 2004.  “The Poetics of Landscape” Symposium on Cryptic Cartographies, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oct. 2002.  “Algérie: textes et contextes” Department of Foreign Languages, Purdue University, February 19, 2003.  “History, Land and Identity in William Faulkner, Kateb Yacine and Edouard Glissant”, Cincinnati Romance Languages Conference, Cincinnati, May 11, 2002.  “The Theme of Identity in Algerian literature” at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Georgetown University, Workshop organized by the American Institute for Maghreb Studies, April 6, 2002.  “Cross-Cultural Poetics: William Faulkner, Edouard Glissant and Kateb Yacine.” Center for Humanities, Harvard University. November 14, 2001.  “Paul Bowles and the Beats in Tangier.” Class Presentation in Coolidge Hall, Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, November 15, 2001.  “Poétique et écriture: le cas de Kateb Yacine” Session President, Congrès Mondial du Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones, Portland, Maine, May 31, 2001.  “La poétique du Paysage dans l’oeuvre romanesque de Kateb Yacine” Congrès Mondial du Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones, Portland, Maine, May 31, 2001.  “Le sentiment de la nature chez Kateb Yacine” Cincinnati Romance Languages Conference, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, May 12, 2001.  “Histoire et Culture au Maghreb.” Guest speaker, Phi Beta, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, April 19, 2001.  “On Maghrebian Literature” at the University of Chicago, Dissertation Workshop organized by the American Institute for Maghreb Studies, April 21, 2001.  “La poétique du Paysage dans l’oeuvre d’Edouard Glissant”, at the Third International Conference on Caribbean Literatures, Ponce, Puerto Rico, October 31-November 4, 2000.  “Culture et tradition orale chez les Berbères au sud du Maroc,” talk at the Tangier American Legation Museum, Tangier, Morocco, August 16, 2000.  “L’oeuvre de trois écrivains francophones: Kateb, Glissant et Mudimbé.” Session President, Congrès Mondial du Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones, Sousse, Tunisia, May 31st, 2000.  “La fonction de l’opacité dans l’oeuvre de Glissant.” Congrès Mondial du Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones, Sousse, Tunisia, May 31st, 2000.  Panelist in the International Conference on the United Nations “The United Nations and the New Millenium”, International Cultural Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, November 1999.  Led a group discussion during a workshop “Kateb Yacine: Quête de l’identité et création artistique” at the Alliance Française, New York City, November 19, 1999.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION  Co-Director (with Joseph Krause), National Endowment for the Humanities Summer 2014 Institute “Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: Guiding Themes in Literature, Cinema and Other Arts since Independence” at Oregon State University, June 23-July 11, 2014.  Co-Director (with Joseph Krause), National Endowment for the Humanities Summer 2007 Institute on Berber Culture at Oregon State University, June-July 2007.  Co-organizer (with Joseph Krause), International Conference, entitled “The Berbers and Other Minorities.” Portland, Oregon, May 14-17, 2005.

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES  Reviewer and literary critic for NEF-Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, journal of CIEF- International Council of Francophone studies, 2013-2014.  Reviewer for French Colonial History, October 2013. Nabil Boudraa, Page 6

 Referee for L’Érudit franco-espagnol, an Electronic Journal of French and Hispanic Literatures, Sept. 2012- present.  Reviewer and evaluator for Hackett Publishing, December 2012-present.

AWARDS National and International Awards  National Endowment for the Humanities Summer 2014 Institute Award, August 2013, co-PI ($178,000).  National Endowment for the Humanities Summer 2007 Institute Award, August 2006, co-PI ($162,000).  American Institute for Maghrebi Scholars Fellowship, June 2000 ($2,000)  Dartmouth Fellowship Award, French Studies Department, Louisiana State University, May 2001 ($1,000).

State and Regional Awards  Cynthia Withycomb Writing Fellowship (complimentary attendance, Willamette Writers Conference, July 2008).  Oregon Council for the Humanities Grant, May 2005, co-PI ($4,000).  Scholarship for Teachers, Northwest Film Center, Portland, May 2004 (screenwriting course, summer 2004). University and Community Awards  OSU Global Learning Initiative Grant, Winter 2013, ($2,000).  OSU College of Liberal Arts Bill Wilkins Faculty Development Award, September 2007, ($1,000).  OSU Trillium Project fellowship (a 3-day writing residency in the Shotpouch Cabin), March 2008.  OSU Valley Library Research Travel Grant, 2007 (and also 2004), ($4,000).  OSU Rural Studies Program Faculty Fellowship, October 2006.  OSU Center for the Humanities Fellowship, February 2006 and February 2014.  OSU Faculty Release Time Grant, Research Office, June 2004 and June 2010.  OSU WIC Stage One Grant- (Development within a Department), May 2004.  Supplemental award for the best graduate student and teaching assistant. Graduate School, Louisiana State University, August 1999.

MEMBERSHIP AFFILIATION  Conseil International d'Etudes Francophones  North East Modern Languages Association  American Institute for Maghreb Studies  American Association for Literature and the Environment  Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa