Dr. Lavinia Horner
Visiting Assistant Professor and French Language Program Coordinator
Contact Information
- Email: lhorner@ksu.edu
- Personal website: https://laviniahorner.weebly.com/
Research Interests
Liminal identities/narratives and political writing in Maghreb and in Central/Eastern Europe; exophonic writers; the intersection of science and French literature; pragmatics.
Education
- Ph.D. French and Francophone Literature & Linguistics, The University of Tennessee, 2018
- M.A. French and Francophone Literature, The University of Tennessee, 2014
- B.A. History and English, Vasile Goldis Western University, Romania, 2002
Recently Offered Courses
- Francophone Literature and Culture Seminar (designed 2 courses)
- French Composition and Grammar (designed course)
- Paris et sa représentation dans les arts
- Intermediate French
- Elementary French
Publications
Peer-Reviewed
- Horner, L. (2019). Literary Arabic and Islamic Values as the New Conditioned Stimuli For the “Good Citizen” Status in Maïssa Bey’s Bleu blanc vert. In print – Romance Notes (Project Muse link https://muse.jhu.edu/article/744850/summary).
- Horner, L. (2019). Literary Articulations of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Mild Autism in Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood. In print – Women in French Studies (Project Muse link https://muse.jhu.edu/article/746180/summary).
Papers
- 2020 Claiming the Land: The Spanish Presence in Colonial Algeria; 20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium; University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Lincoln, NE https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ffsc2020/14/
- 2019 The Odd One Out: Images of Monsters in Tahar ben Jelloun’s “La petite à la burqa rouge”; CFP: Of Gods and Monsters Conference, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
- 2018 “Put Us on an Island in the Middle of the Mediterranean” – Colonial Legacy; Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights Anthropology Conference, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
- 2017 Emmanuel Roblès and the Spanish Memorial in Colonial Algeria; UWGA Conference, The University of West Georgia, Carrollton, GA
- 2017 Miroir, miroir sur le mur, il est difficile d’être à la mode dans une Tour; Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, The University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC
- 2017 Fraternity, Fear and Shame in the Colonized Algeria of Maïssa Bey, Albert Camus, and Emmanuel Roblès; Crossroads Conference, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA