
On Sabbatical AY 2012-13
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University of New Mexico
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
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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.
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.
Poétiques et politiques de l’allégorie dans L’escargot entêté de Rachid Boudjedra (under consideration).
Madness and the Night of the Poetic Community: The Just Desert of Malika Mokeddem’s Century of Locusts (under review).
Continents Adrift? Suturing the Cultural and Political Divide in Assia Djebar’s Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement, L’amour, la fantasia, and Vaste est la prison (Forthcoming in French Forum).