Jennifer Howell
- About
- Education
- Research
Current Courses
112.001First-Year French (Part II)
112.002First-Year French (Part II)
213.001Written Communication in French
203.001Nations And Narration AMALI: Africa
Teaching Interests & Areas
Francophone Literatures & Cultures, French for Business & the Professions, Composition & Conversation, North African Literature in Translation
Research Interests & Areas
Francophone North Africa, Francophone Literatures of the African and Vietnamese Diasporas, Photography, the Graphic Novel, Crime Fiction, Ecocriticism, History & Memory
Ph D French and Francophone World Studies
Other English
MA French
BA French
BS Biological Sciences
Book Review
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique, ed. Josef Gugler. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2015. Journal of North African Studies. Forthcoming.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Femmes en francophonie: Écritures et lectures du féminin dans les littératures francophones, ed. Isaac Bazié and Françoise Naudillon. Montreal: Mémoire d’encrier, 2014. Dalhousie French Studies 107: Forthcoming.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity, ed. H. Adlai Murdoch and Zsuzsanna Fagyal. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Dalhousie French Studies 107: Forthcoming.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Redrawing French Empire in Comics, by Mark McKinney. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2013. H-France Review 14.183 (2014): 1-5.
Book, Authored
Howell, Jennifer. The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.
Book, Chapter
Howell, Jennifer. “Reconstructing Harki Sites of Memory in the Graphic Novel.” In A Practical Guide to French Harki Literature. Edited by Keith Moser. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. 187-207.
Howell, Jennifer. “A Father’s Pain, a Daughter’s Story: Transcending the Trauma of Loss.” The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art. Névine El Nossery and Amy Hubbell, ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 285-304.
Journal Article
Howell, Jennifer. “Investigating the Enforced Disappearances of Algeria’s ‘Dark Decade’: Omar D’s and Kamel Khélif’s Commemorative Art Projects.” Journal of North African Studies, special issue: “Maghrebi Artistic and Literary Expressions in the 21st Century.” Forthcoming 2016.
Howell, Jennifer. “Comics and the Demystification of France’s Immigration ‘Problem’: Reading Christophe Dabitch’s Immigrants.” Modern & Contemporary France 23.4 (2015): 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2015.1043984
Howell, Jennifer. “Contes et légendes en filigrane: Lacunes et silences dans la transmission d’une mémoire vietnamienne chez Minh Tran Huy.” Women in French Studies: Forthcoming 2015.
Howell, Jennifer. “Vietnamese Foodways and Viet Kieu Postmemory in Clément Baloup’s Graphic Narratives.” European Comic Art 8.1 (2015): 25-51.
Howell, Jennifer. “The Practice of Multimodal Storytelling: Camus’s “L’hôte” as Bande Dessinée.” The French Review 87.1 (2013): 165-79.