Algerian Women and the Invention of Literary Mourning
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David Fieni received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UCLA and his B.A. in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley. He was the recipient of an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in French and History Across the Disciplines at Cornell University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of French at SUNY College at Oneonta. His research interests include francophone and arabophone literatures and societies of the Maghreb, cultural encounters between France and the Arab world, secularism and political theologies, the aesthetics of empire, and the ways that digital, immaterial writing and situated, material writing interact. His most recent publications are “What a Wall Wants, or How Graffiti Thinks: Nomad Grammatology in the French Banlieue” in diacritics (Summer 2012), and “French Decadence, Arabic Awakenings” in boundary 2 (Summer 2012). He co-directed a special issue of Expressions maghrébines on the Moroccan writer Abdelkebir Khatibi (Summer 2013), and has also published on figures as diverse as Jean Genet and Ernest Renan. Empire of Language, his translation of Laurent Dubreuil‘s 2008 book, was published by Cornell University Press in spring 2013. He has also co-edited an issue of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing with Karim Mattar, entitled “The Global Checkpoint: ‘Rights of Passage, Performances of Sovereignty” (2014).
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