Jimia Boutouba
Biographical Information
Jimia Boutouba is a Professor of French & Francophone Studies, specializing in 20th and 21st century French & Francophone literature and cinema, and in 19th century colonial discourse. Bridging national and disciplinary boundaries, her scholarship explores the way minority writers, filmmakers, artists and thinkers challenge the conceptions of belonging and distance, Self and Other, citizens and migrants, to disseminate potential alternatives to current culture clashes, exclusion and rejection. Located at the intersection of literature, film studies, history and politics, her work enacts new modes of inquiry and interpretation that take into account transnational and transhistorical connections and trajectories.
Awards
- Visiting Research Scholar, FHB University, Abidjan. Ivory Coast Dec. 2023
- Center for the Arts & Humanities Faculty Fellow, SCU 2023-2024
- John B. Drahmann Advising Award. SCU College of Arts & Sciences. Fall 2022
- Outstanding Career Influencer Award, SCU Career Center. Spring 2022
- Outstanding Teaching Assistantship Award. USC.
Research Interests
- Postcolonial cultures: literature and cinema in The Maghreb, Africa and the Caribbean
- Postcolonial France: Minority discourses, National identity, the representation of the social Other (immigrants and their descendants) in modern French cinema
- 20th/ / 21st century French literature and culture
- Orientalism, 19th century travel literature
- Postcolonial Theories, Feminist theories and Transnational Cinema
- FREN 175: Transnational Cinema;
- FREN 173: Race, Immigration & Identity in France;
- FREN 117: French Orientalism;
- FREN 114: Literatures & Cultures of the Maghreb;
- FREN 110: Contemporary France: Society, Politics & Cultures;
- FREN 101: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis;
- FREN 100: Introduction to French and Francophone Studies;
- FREN 106: Oral Communication in French