Department Head, French and Italian | Professor, Near Eastern Studies | Professor, French and Italian | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Director, Special Projects
Professor of French and Francophone Studies, affiliated faculty with the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies and Religious Studies. She is the single author of three books: Coran et tradition islamique dans la littérature maghrébine Paris: Karthala, 2002) analyzes the Islamic intertext in Francophone literature from the Maghreb. The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent: Religions and Conflicts in Francophone Literature from the Arab World Lexington, 2010) focuses on representations of Islam in conflicts in the cultural production of the Francophone Arab world; it was selected by Choice as a 2010 Outstanding Academic Title. Islamic Schools in France: Minority Integration and Separatism in Western Society Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) is the first book on the growing phenomenon of private full-time K-12 Muslim schools in France.