2016-2013 Northeast Modern Language Association of America (NeMLA)-French and Francophone Lang. & Lit. Director
2023-2010 The Pirandello Lyceum Association-Board of Governors
2018-2010 Prometheus Dance- Education Advisor
Selected Publications
AUTHORED & EDITED BOOKS
2013-Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives. Rocca, Anna and Kenneth Reeds, eds. Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2011-Frictions et devenirs dans les écritures migrantes au féminin: Enracinements et renégociations. Rocca, Anna and Névine, El Nossery, eds. Éditions Universitaires Européennes. Sarrebruck, Germany.
2005 - Assia Djebar. Le corps invisible: voir sans être vue. Rocca, Anna. Paris: L’Harmattan.
FORTHCOMING
ARTICLE - "From the Margins of Society and Beyond Marginalization: Adrienne Yabouza and la littérature pour la jeunesse." Women in French Studies.
(2022) ARTICLE - “Adrienne Yabouza raconte : ce ne sont pas des murmures, c’est un éclat de voix de femme!” Berthelot-Raffard, Agnès, Elsa Dorlin et Hanétha Vété-Congolo, eds. Recherches Féministes. Special Issue: Penséesféministesnoiresfrancophones:Afrique,Amériques,Europe. Québec City, CA : U Laval, Vol. 34, n. 2.
(2022) CHAPTER - “Assia Djebar’s La Soif: Abortion and Crime.” Infanticide /Mothers Who Kill. Charlotte Beyer and Josephine Savarese, eds. Ontario, CA: Demeter Press. Ch. 13.
(2021) CHAPTER - “Tunisia: Héla Ammar’s Tarz. An Affective and Imaginative Memory Upon Dispossession.”Newbury, Darren, Lorena Rizzo, & Kylie Thomas, eds. Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges. London: Routledge. 249-268.
(2020) ARTICLE - “Adrienne Yabouza’s Co-épouses et co-veuves: Female Exemplary Stories of Hardship and Improbable Alliances.” 2020 Women in French Studies. Special Issue on Francophone Central African Women’s Writing. Vol. 8, 175-189.
(2020) ARTICLE – “Héla Ammar’s À fleur de peau/Body Talks: From Anonymous to Familiar Bodies.” Galis, Polly, Maria Tomlinson, & Antonia Wimbush, eds. Special Issue: Challenging Normative Spaces and Gazes: The Body in 20th- and 21st-Century Francophone Culture. L’Ésprit Créateur, Vol. 60, no. 2 (Summer 2020): 83-98.
(2020) ARTICLE: “Dora Latiri’s Un amour de tn. Textual and Photographic Representations of Attachment in a Minimalistic Tunisia.” Esposito, Claudia ed. Special Issue : Image, Texte, Son: Esthétiques Transmédiales du Maghreb Contemporain. Expressions maghrébines. Vol. 19, nº 1, Summer 2020: 87-99.
(2019) CHAPTER: -“La spiritualité incarnée : Lalla Essaydi et les femmes du Maroc.” Perry, Catherine ed. Spiritualités musulmanes au féminin dans la littérature et les représentations visuelles. Paris: L’Harmattan.
(2019) CHAPTER: -“Héla Ammar: Art & Beyond.” Art from Trauma: Genocide and Healing Beyond Rwanda. Gallimore Rangira and Gerise Herndon, eds. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 93-107.
(2019) CHAPTER: -“Azza Filali et les interférences créatrices.” Hybridations et tensions narratives au Maghreb et en Afrique subsaharienne. Delas, Daniel, Khalid Zekri, & Anne Begenat-Neuschäfer, eds. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang Edition.
Selected Presentations
SESSION PROPOSER, ORGANIZER & CHAIR
(2022) Panel: “From the Margins and Beyond Marginalization: African Women Writers and Children Literature” 10th International Women in French Conference “Margins: Voices and Pathways” Women in French (WIF) Conference, May 12-14;
(2022) Symposium: “Photography & Resistance: Artists in Conversation: Dora Carpenter-Latiri’sTunisian Women of the Book: Creation, Enunciation, and Belonging” MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture Symposium, April 28;
(2022) Panel: “Literature, Cultural Studies, Race, and Gender” 20th and 21st Centuries French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, March 24 – 26.
(2021) Panel: “Les pratiques culturelles et artistiques du vivre-ensemble.” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference, Madeira, Portugal, June 7-13;
(2021) Panel: “Francophone Women Writers Embracing Eco-Feminism (WIF Session).” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Virtual Conference; March 11-14;
(2021) Roundtable: “Visual Africa: Francophone Women’s Aesthetic Representations of Africa (WIF Session).” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Virtual Conference; March 11-14;
(2020) Panel: “Contemporary Francophone Women Authors’ Representations of the Sacred-WIF Session.” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference, Boston, MA; March 5-8;
(2020) Roundtable: “Francophone Women Writers Representing Africa in Children’s Literature (WIF Session).” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference, Boston, MA; March 5-8;
CONFERENCE PAPERS
(2023) “Au-delà de la vengeance : Le prix du cinquième jour.” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 19-25;
(2023) "Penser le sujet femme noire francophone : Réflexions," (Invited), Online March 7.
(2023) “The Maghrib in Massachusetts,” (Invited), UMass Boston, February 25.
(2022) “Conflits, constrictions et reconstructions dans Citrons Doux: L’Ainée de Dora Latiri.” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference, Trento, Italy, June 20-26;
(2022) “Fabienne Kanor’s Louisiane: Psychopolitics and Black Masculinities.”20th and 21st Centuries French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium March 24 – 26, 2022;
(2021) “Fabienne Kanor: Ways of Inhabiting the World.” MLA International Symposium (MLA), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland; June 17-19;
(2021) “La Louisiane de Fabienne Kanor.” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference, Madeira, Portugal, June 7-13;
(2021) “Tunisian Women of the Book.” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Virtual Conference; March 11-14
(2020) “Représentations identitaires de solidarité : Héla Ammar” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference, Gdansk, Poland, June 8-14. CANCELLED
(2020) “From the Margins and Beyond Marginalization: African Women Writers and Children Literature.” Women in French (WIF) Conference, Iowa State University, IA; May 14-16. CANCELLED.
?(2020) “Fatou Keita: Writing to Children.” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference, Boston, MA; March 5-8;
