Amy Hubbell joined the Modern Languages Department in the Fall 2004 after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan in 2003. She taught French at Baylor University and Eastern Michigan University, and English at the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland and the Lycée Chateaubriand in Rennes, France before coming to Kansas State.
A specialist in twentieth-century French and Francophone literature, Amy is a member of both the African and Canadian Studies faculty at KSU. Her research focuses on Pied-Noir studies and her recent publications include:
- “Genre Trouble in Nicole Brossard’s un livre.” Women in French Studies. Forthcoming 2008.
- “Returning to the Baobab fou: (Dis)integrating Roots in Ken Bugul’s and Marie Cardinal’s Autobiographies.” Emergent Perspectives on Ken Bugul: From Alternative Choices to Oppositional Practices. Eds. Jeanne-Sarah De Larquier and Ada Uzoamaka Azodo. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Forthcoming 2008.
- “« La valise ou le cercueil » : un aller-retour dans la mémoire des Pieds-Noirs.” Revue Diasporas: histoire et sociétés. Forthcoming (October 2008).
- “Slipping Home in Marie Cardinal’s Écoutez la mer.” Gender and Displacement: Home in Contemporary Francophone Women's Autobiography. Eds. Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
- “The Wounds of Algeria in Pied-Noir Autobiography.” Dalhousie French Studies 81 (Winter 2007): 59-68.
- “An Amputated Elsewhere: Sustaining and Relieving the Phantom Limb of Algeria.” Life Writing 4.2 (October 2007): 247-262.
- “Looking Back: Deconstructing Postcolonial Blindness in Nostalgérie.” Revue CELAAN Review 3.1-2 (Fall 2004): 85-95.
She is currently co-editing a volume entitled Textual/Visual Selves: Photography, Art and Performance in French Autobiography with Drs. Natalie Edwards and Ann Miller, and has presented her research at conferences across the U.S., as well as in Australia, England, Quebec, and Iraq. In 2007 she became Assistant Editor of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literatures.
In addition to her research, Amy is committed to developing the French language program at K-State, having taught and coordinated the French 1-4 sequence, as well as:
• FREN 517, Commercial French;
• FREN 518, Advanced French Conversation through French film;
• FREN 520, Introduction to French Literature I (19th-20th centuries);
• FREN 716, Contemporary French Literature;
• FREN 717, 20th Century Literature, Part 2 (1945-present);
• FREN 720, French Seminar, Littérature Québécoise;
• FREN 742, French Speaking Culture/Literature and Second Language Acquisition; and,
• FREN 799, Independent Study, Littérature Antillaise, Franco-Algerian Autobiography.
In 2007 she wrote the testing program for Thomson-Heinle’s intermediate-French textbook Séquences and is also developing a commercial French textbook entitled À la recherche d’emploi that focuses on the job search process. |
