Jo\u00eblle Vitiello, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, her Dipl\u00f4me d\u2019\u00e9tudes universitaires sup\u00e9rieures (D.E.U.G.) and License from Paris XIII in France. She chaired the department of French and Francophone Studies between 2000-2003 and 2006-2012. She started the French Lectures Series for the department in fall 1999.<\/p>\n
The courses she has developed include 20th and 21st century French literature; Food in French and Francophone Cultures: the Local and the Global; Introduction to French and Francophone Studies; Representations of Immigration and Border-Crossings in Contemporary Europe; Voices from the Mediterranean; Contemporary French Culture; Haitian Literature and Culture; Caribbean Literature; Literature and Cinema of Immigration; North Africa\/France: Representations on Both Sides of the Mediterranean;\u00a0 African and French Cinema in Dialogue; French Intellectuals In\/And the World; Culture and Identity Through Francophone Cinema, French Feminist Theory; Haiti: Culture, Human Rights and Humanitarianism; and French at all levels. She participates in the programs of African Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Civilization, and Human Rights and Humanitarianism.<\/p>\n
Her specialization is in representations of relationships (love, motherhood, friendship, and transmission of knowledge) in contemporary literature, especially by women from France and the Francophone world. Her current research includes Haitian literature and culture; Representations of Immigration; North African Cinema and literature, and representations of systemic violence. She is also working on representations of friendship in anthropology, philosophy, literature, and cinema.<\/p>\n
She co-organized the 2008 American Institute for Maghrebi Studies Conference on North African Cinema in Tunis, May 2008, and co-hosted at Macalester College the first international Women In French Conference with Dana Strand from Carleton College in 2000. She co-organized the Visualities of Memory Symposium with Visiting Professor Vicky Karaiskou, September 2014 at Macalester.<\/p>\n
Her book publications include\u00a0Elles \u00e9crivent des Antilles (Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique)<\/em>\u00a0(L\u2019Harmattan, 1997), a co-edited special issue of\u00a0Women In French Studies: Women at the Threshold of the XXIst Century: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives<\/em>\u00a0(2003) and a co-authored book on\u00a0La vie et les valeurs aux U.S.A<\/em>\u00a0with Claire Nacher (Paris: Editions Solar, Presses de la Cit\u00e9, 1991.)<\/p>\n She has also authored many articles, chapters, prefaces, and essays in peer-reviewed journals and collective books on Haitian writers from Haiti and its diaspora, including work on post-duvalierist literature (Marie Vieux Chauvet, Dany Laferri\u00e8re, Kettly Mars, Jean Price-Mars, Ren\u00e9 Depestre, Emile Ollivier, Yanick Lahens, Yanick Jean, Lyonel Trouillot, Jo\u00ebl Des Rosiers, G\u00e9rard Etienne), Caribbean literature, West African Literature, North African literature, Lebanese-Egyptian writer Andr\u00e9e Chedid, as well as theoretical essays on exile, nomadism and diaspora, and theoretical and literary articles on feminist epistemology, gift, and friendship. Peer-reviewed journals include\u00a0Contemporary French and Francophone Studies<\/em>,\u00a0Women In French Studies<\/em>,\u00a0CELAAN<\/em>,\u00a0Cultures Sud<\/em>,\u00a0Etudes litt\u00e9raires<\/em>,\u00a0Pr\u00e9sence francophone<\/em>,\u00a0Litt\u00e9R\u00e9alit\u00e9s<\/em>,\u00a0La Revue G\u00e9n\u00e9rale<\/em>,\u00a0Symposium<\/em>,\u00a0Notre Librairie<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n Recent publications include ” Les Livres de Marie Vieux Chauvet: D\u00e9ambulations” (2016); “Disrupting Conventional Film Structure: Letters, Voice-Over and Traumatic Irruption in Raoul Peck’s Films” (2015); “Voix, corps et mouvements dans les premiers romans d’Assia Djebar”,\u00a0CELAAN, Review of the Center for the Study of Literatures and Arts of North Africa<\/em>\u00a0(2015); “Boubacar Boris Diop, auteur s\u00e9n\u00e9galais, francophone, plan\u00e9taire: de la fiction \u00e0 l’essai,” (Les Cahiers<\/em>, Pr\u00e9sence Africaine, 2014); “La m\u00e9moire dans les romans et nouvelles de Marie-C\u00e9lie Agnant” ( 2013);\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>“Port-au-Prince: Images litt\u00e9raires des quartiers-bidonvilles et de leurs habitants,”\u00a0Ponti\/Ponts<\/em>\u00a0(2011);\u00a0 and the Introduction to\u00a0Comment Ecrire\/ Mo Pou 12 Janvye? How to Write an Earthquake?\u00a0<\/em>\u00a091st Meridian and University of Iowa International Writing Program, 2011.<\/p>\n