Atef Laouyene
Assistant Professor
College of Arts and Letters
Department of English
| Office: E&T A627 |
| Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday: 12:15-1:15 pm & 6:15-7:15 pm |
| Phone: (323) 343-4291 |
| Fax: (323) 343-6470 |
| Email:
alaouye@calstatela.edu |
TEACHING INTERESTS
Courses Taught:
- ENGL-510: Graduate Seminar: Violence, Trauma, and Narrative Ethics
- ENGL-541: Graduate Seminar: Postcolonialism: Theory, Politics, Practice
- ENGL-486: 20th-C Continental Fiction
- ENGL-383: Narratives of Maturity and Aging
- ENGL-382: Violence and Literature
- ENGL-340: Writing in the Major
- ENGL-280: Contemporary World Literature
- ENGL-250: Understanding Literature
- ENGL-200C: British Literature Survey II (18th-Century-Present)
- ENGL-102: Composition II
RESEARCH
- Postcolonial Literary Studies
- Critical Theory
- Anglophone Literatures
- Arab Diaspora Studies
- Arabic Cultures and Literatures
- Currently working on a book project tentatively titled “The Post-Exotic Arab: Orientalist Dystopias in Contemporary Postcolonial Writing.”
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
| Title | Date |
|---|---|
| Articles “The Canadian Gothic and the Work of Ghosting in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knee,” in Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic. Ed. Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2009. |
2009 |
| “Andalusian Poetics: Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh and the Limits of Hybridity.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 38.4 (2008): 143-65. | 2008 |
| “‘I am no Othello. I am a lie’: Shakespeare’s Moor and the Post-Exotic in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North,” in Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage. Ed. Craig Dionne and Parmita Kapadia. London: Ashgate Press, 2008. 213-32. | 2008 |
| Reviews "Pan-Arabism Under Western Eyes." Rev. of Britain and Arab Unity: A Documentary History From the Treaty of Versailles to the End of World War II, by Younan Labib Rizk. Journal of Intercultural Studies. |
(Forthcoming) |
| "Of Violence and Poetry," Rev. of
To Love a Palestinian Woman, by
Ehab Lotayef; Alien, Corespondent,
by Antonio Di Nardo; and Back in the
Days, by Addena Sumter-Freitag. Canadian Literature. http://canlit.ca/reviews/of_violence_and_poetry |
2011 |
| “Orient Re-oriented,” Rev. of Translating Orients: Between Ideology and Utopia, By Timothy Weiss. Postcolonial Text 2. 2 (2006). http://journals.sfu.ca/pocol/index.php/pct/article/view/475/189 | 2006 |
| Conferences “Pathologies of Moorishness in Arab Diasporic Writing,” for the MLA Convention, Los Angeles, January 6-9, 2011. “Ethics of Witnessing: Life Writing and the Spectacle of Arab Violence,” presented for CACLALS at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, May 28-June 4, 2010. “Hauntropologies: Arab Canadians and the Specter of Marginality,” presented for CACLALS at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Carleton University, Canada, May 23-26, 2009. “Arabs, 9/11, and the New Face of the Exotic” presented for ACCUTE at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Carleton University, Canada, May 23-26, 2009. “The Post-Exotic Arab: Re-Arranging the Tropes,” presented at the MLA Convention, Chicago, December 27-30, 2007. “Odalisque Revisited,” presented at the Fifth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Paris, July 17-20, 2007. “‘I am no Othello. I am a lie’: The Undoing of the Moor in Tayib Salih’s Season of Migration to the North,” presented for CACLALS at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Winnipeg, Canada, May 2004. |
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Ph.D. English 2008
- University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
MA English 2001
- Laval University, Québec, Canada
BA English 1998
- University of Letters, Sousse, Tunisia