Foreign Languages and Literatures at University of New Mexico

FLL Faculty

Raji Vallury - Associate Professor of French

Raji Vallury - Associate Professor

Contact Information

On Sabbatical AY 2012-13
Ortega Hall 319C University of New Mexico Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Albuquerque, NM 87131-1146 Fax: (505) 277-3599 Email:

Educational History

Ph.D., in French Literature, University of Pittsburgh.

Title of dissertation:
The Blind Spot in a Dream of Dissymmetry. Directed by Professor Yves Citton.

M.A., French Literature, University of Pittsburgh.

Certificat de Maîtrise, Littérature française générale et comparée, Université de Nantes, France.

B.A., French Literature, Ramnarain Ruia College - University of Bombay, India.

B.A., Psychology, Sophia College - University of Bombay, India.

Research Interests

Dr. Vallury obtained her B.A. in French Literature from the University of Bombay, India, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her teaching and research interests include nineteenth-century French literature, the North African novel of French expression, feminist studies, literary theory, and post-colonial and cultural studies. She is the author of Surfacing the Politics of Desire: Literature, Feminism, and Myth (University of Toronto Press, August 2008), and has published articles in edited volumes with Duke University Press, Les Presses Universitaires de Rennes, and the journal Novel. The common thread linking Dr. Vallury’s varied research interests is the specific question of the relationship between literature and politics, or how literature ‘does’ politics. She is currently preparing a book manuscript on the politics of national allegory in the Algerian novel.

Selected Publications

Books
Articles & Book Chapters

Teaching Interests

Representative Courses