Lamia Benyoussef
Dr. Lamia Benyoussef is a Lecturer in French with other teaching responsibilities in the English Department. She holds a BA in English from L'École Normale Supérieure of Sousse in Tunisia and an MA and a PhD in English from Michigan State University. Her doctoral program focused on Postcoloniality, Feminist Theory, and African Studies, with a focus on Islam and French/Francophone North Africa. Prior to coming to SCU, she taught English at the University of Carthage and English, French, and Arabic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also taught Arabic language and Middle Eastern Arabic literature at Birmingham-Southern College. Her current research areas are North African Studies, Studies, Arabic and Islamic Studies, foreign language pedagogy, Francophone Studies, and translation studies. She is author of a book length volume The Production of the Woman: Negotiation Text, History, and Ideology by Lexington Books. She is the translator of Olfa Youssef’s The Perplexity of the Muslim Woman: Over Inheritance, Marriage and Homosexuality (2018). She is the author of 16 articles in peer-reviewed journals and academic presses in the field of French/Francophone Studies, Gender & Women Studies, Islamic Studies, and North African Studies. She is now working on a documentary on WWII in North Africa and a book project on the bloody massacre of 26 January 1978 in Tunisian literature and cinema.
Research Interests:
- French/Francophone Studies
- Gender & Women Studies
- Islamic Studies
- Anglophone Literatures
- North African Studies
- Foreign Language Pedagogy
- Translation Studies
- FREN 1: Intro French Language and Culture I
- FREN 111: Introduction to the Francophone World
- ENGL 2A 34: Critical Thinking and Writing (Academia and Identity)