Alison Rice
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Director, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
Degrees
Research Profile
Alison Rice is the author of a website, Francophone Metronomes, featuring filmed interviews with worldwide women writers in Paris: http://francophonemetronomes.com/
Recent Publications Include:
“Activist cinéma-monde in Paris: Filming Foreigners in the French Capital.” Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in France. Eds. Michael Gott and Thibaut Schilt (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018): 239-256.
“L’art d’écrire sans réserve: Made in Algeria de Zahia Rahmani.” Littératures maghrébines au coeur de la francophonie: Écrivains d’Algérie. Eds. Najib Redouane and Yvette Bénayoun-Szmidt (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2017): 321-333.
Tangled Tongues: Teasing Out Multiple Meanings in Translation.” MLA Volume on Approaches to Teaching the Works of Assia Djebar. Ed. Anne Donadey (New York: Modern Language Association, 2017): 150-156.
“Childless Mothers: Personal Perspectives from Francophone Women Writers.” Women’s Lives in Contemporary French and Francophone Literature. Eds. Florence Ramond Jurney and Karen McPherson (New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2016): 31-44.
“‘Exilées de famille’: Travelling Texts by Worldwide Women Writers.” Exiles, Travellers and Vagabonds: Rethinking Mobility in Francophone Women’s Writing. Eds. Kate Averis and Isabel Hollis (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2016): 71-92.
“Unsettling Scores: Making Music and Promoting Peace in the Written Work of Francophone Women.” Francosphères 5.2 (2016): 197-212.
“‘Dynamiser et dynamiter’: Un entretien avec Leïla Sebbar.” CELAAN Review. Special double issue on Leïla Sebbar. Ed. Ida Kummer. Volume 13, numbers 2-3 (Fall 2016): 200-219.
“The Names of Love: Untranslating Algeria in France.” Expressions maghrébines 15:1 (Summer 2016): 99-114.
“Modulating the Margins: Assia Djebar’s Life Work.” CELAAN Review. Special issue titled “Hommage à Assia Djebar: Sortir de la marge et du harem.” 12.3 (Fall 2015): 64-83.