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Jamiella Brooks
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
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ABOUT
Jamiella focuses on francophone literature, particularly in North Africa. Her current work analyzes dialogue and the construction of the female voice in francophone literature from the Maghrebian countries of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. She takes an interdisciplinary approach to her work, incorporating speech-act theory, social linguistics, women and gender studies, and cultural studies into the literary genre. She is also active as an AI/TA Consultant Coordinator, facilitating pedagogical workshops and helping to improve the quality of TA instruction.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Maghreb Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Pedagogy
Comparative
Transnationalism
Cinema/Film
Geographic Areas of Interest
Algeria
Maghreb
Morocco
Tunisia
Specialties
French And Francophone Studies
Maghrebi Literature
Second Language Acquisition
Languages
French (fluent)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2013 | French | University of California - Davis
BA | 2007 | English | Oberlin College
Abstracts
Paroles Mésurées: Creative Agency in Two North African Francophone Narratives