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Kirsten Husung
Kirsten Husung is a senior lecturer of French and Francophone Studies at the Linnaeus University (Sweden) and member of the Linnaeus University Center for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Her main research interests lie within the field of Maghrebian literature, the theory of the subject, gender studies and postcolonial literature theories and in the field of language didactics on the teaching of Francophone literature in relation to the student’s intercultural competence. She is the author of the book Hybridity et genre chez Assia Djebar et Nina Bouraoui (L’Harmattan, 2014). Recent articles are ‘Combien de temps pour devenir une femme? Sujétion et transgression chez Nina Bouraoui’ published in Expressions Maghrébines, 16:1, été 2017, pp. 69–83 and ‘La franco-phonie comme lieu interstitiel d’une écriture d’hybridation: l’exemple d’Assia Djebar’ in the Revue nordique des études francophones (Nordic Journal of Francophone Studies), 1:1, 2018, pp. 53–61. She is currently working on Moroccan literature written by women in the wake of the Arabic Spring.
Contact: Department of Languages, Linnaeus University, 351 95 Växjö, Sweden.