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Touria Khannous
Louisiana State University
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Louisiana State University
Foreign Languages and International Studies
Baton Rouge LA
United States
ABOUT
Touria Khannous is associate professor in the Department of World Languages and the International Studies Program at Louisiana State University. Her research interests include African studies, postcolonial studies, and film. She has published articles on Maghrebian women's cinema as well as a manuscript on African women’s literature, film and internet discourse.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Anti-Racism
Arabic
Cinema/Film
Colonialism
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Maghreb Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Arab States
Maghreb
Specialties
Af & ME Cinema
Arab Lang & Lit
Postcol Lit & Cult Stds
Languages
Arabic (native)
German (elementary)
Italian (elementary)
English (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2003 | English | Brown U
MA | 1995 | English | Brown U
BA | 1991 | English | Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah U
Abstracts
In Search of an Arab-Islamic Feminism on the Web Identity Politics and the Constructions of Blackness in Arab Medieval Travel Narratives Writing the Imperial Narrative: Rifa’a Al Tahtawi’s Descriptions of Sudan and the Sudanese Teaching Race and Islam in the American College Classroom: Morocco as a Case Study Images of Blackness: Exploring Selected Literature and Film from the Maghreb Images of the Black in Maghrebian Literature Race and Spacial Politics in Selected Maghrebian Writings Gender, Violence and Representation in Contemporary Algerian Women’s Cinema Maghrebian Women's New Independent Cinema: Travels in the Transnational Imaginary. Trauma and Class Representation in Faouzi Bensaidi's film Volubilis Magical Realism and the Possibilities of Representation in Noureddine Lakhmari’s Film Le Regard Moving Spaces, Heterotopias and Exile in Mariam Touzani’s film Adam (2019) Tropes of death and Arab Nationalism in Nazik Al-Malaika's poem "Cholera" Aesthetics of Violence and Political Potential for Democratic Change in Hassan Blasimʼs Writing Translating Race in Arabic Narratives