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Rachel Mihuta Grimm
Rachel Mihuta Grimm is a Ph.D. candidate in French and francophone studies at Northwestern University. Her research focuses on postcolonial literatures from the Maghreb, trans-Mediterranean crossings of memory and trauma theory. In her dissertation, entitled ‘The afterlives of amnesia: Post-traumatic memories of the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French and Algerian literature’, she examines the traumatic reverberations of decolonization in collective memory and the cultural sphere in France and Algeria. In addition to her academic research, she is also active as a volunteer at the Centre Primo Levi in Paris, where she works to provide legal and linguistic support to survivors of torture seeking asylum in France.