Associate Professor, Comparative Literature

Queens College
Kissena Hall 259
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367
718-997-5684
andrea.khalil@qc.cuny.edu

Professor, Ph.D. Program in French

The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016 

Primary concentrations:

Literature and Film from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt, Postcolonial studies, Twentieth Century French Literature, Modern Painting of North Africa and Middle East.

Education:

• Ph.D. Harvard University, French Language and Literatures, November 1998
• M.A. Harvard University, French Language and Literatures, May 1993

Books:

North African Cinema in a Global Context: Through the Lens of Diaspora. London: Routledge, 2008.

The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2003.

Selected articles:

• “Abdelkebir Khatibi,” Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East. Thomson Gale Publishers, 2007.
• “Women, Gender and Women’s Fiction Writers: North Africa,” Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Brill Academic Publishers, 2007.
• “A Writing in Points: Autobiography and the Poetics of the Tattoo”, The Journal of North African Studies, Frank Cass Publishers, Volume 8, No. 2, summer 2003.
• “Another Image of Tunisia: A Film Short Trilogy by Moncef Dhouib” in The Journal of North African Studies, Frank Cass Publishers, volume 7, number 2, summer 2002.
• “Images that Come out at Night: Moncef Dhouib” in CELAAN Journal "Centre d’Etudes des Littératures et des Arts d’Afrique du Nord” special issue “Cinéma Maghrébin/Maghrebian Cinema” vol.1, n.1, summer 2002.
• “Affect and Ruin in Assia Djebar’s ”Vaste est la prison” in ALIF journal of Comparative Poetics, volume 20, “The Hybrid Literary Text: Arab Creative Authors Writing in Foreign Languages”. Cairo, Egypt. Spring 2000.
• “The Myth of the False: Ramses Younan and post-structuralism avant la lettre”, in The Arab Studies Journal, “Language and Culture in the Arab World”, Washington DC, winter 2000.
• “The Suture: Tahar Ben Jelloun’s La Prière de l’absent”, in LittéRéalité “Diaspora Maghrébine”, University of York, Toronto Winter 2000.
• “Returning and the Body in Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Talismano” in Itineraires, volume 27, “Nouvelles approaches des texts littéraires maghrébins ou migrants”. Paris: Harmattan, fall 1999.
• Translation of “Sociologie et Identité en Egypte et au Maroc: Le travail de deuil de la colonisation”, by Alain Roussillon, for Cambridge History of Social Sciences. Issue: “The Internationalization of the Social Sciences”, 1998.

Edited Volume:

• Editor of Special Issue of The Journal of North African Studies (Volume 12, No. 3, September, 2007): “Through the Lens of Diaspora: North African Cinema in a Global Context”. Author of article: “The Myth of Masculinity in the Films of Merzak Allouache”, (30pp); Author of Introduction.

Award:

• Mellon Fellowship for Mid-Career faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center

Professional Activities:

• Member of Mellon Interdisciplinary Committee for the Study of Religion
• Board of Directors and Program Officer, American Institute for Maghreb Studies, 2009-present
• Faculty Fellow (2008-2009) “Great Issues Forum: Power in the Contemporary World” at The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, sponsored jointly by the Chancellor’s Office and the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Member of the Faculty of Middle Eastern Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
• Director of the ‘Centre d’études maghrébines à Tunis’ (CEMAT) (Center for Maghreb Studies), Tunis, Tunisia (October 2001-October 2002).