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College of Arts and Sciences

Jennifer Howell

Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Lang Literatures & Cultures
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 238
Office Hours
By appointment only.
Office Phone
(309) 438-1956office
phone
Email
jthowel@ilstu.eduemail
  • About
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Current Courses

FRE 215.001 Advanced Grammar and Oral Proficiency

FRE 112.002 First-Year French (Part II)

IDS 203.001 Nations And Narration AMALI: Africa

FRE 112.001 First-Year French (Part II)

FRE 112.002 First-Year French (Part II)

FRE 325.001 Selected Topics In Francophone Literature & Culture

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

The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Other English

Université Rennes 2-Haute Bretagne
Rennes, France

MA French

Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH

BA French

Ohio University
Athens, OH

BS Biological Sciences

Ohio University
Athens, OH

Grants & Contracts

Generation Study Abroad New Program Initiative. Office of International Studies and Programs. Illinois State University. (2015)
Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: Literature, the Arts, and Cinema since Independence. National Endowment for the Humanities. Federal. (2014)
Clément Baloup: A Case Study in Transnationalism and Diaspora in A Case Study in Transnationalism and Diaspora in Contemporary Viet Kieu Narrative. University Research Grant Program. Illinois State University. (2014)
Clément Baloup: The Colors of Exile. Harold K. Sage Foundation. Illinois State University. (2014)
International Travel Grant. College of Arts and Sciences. Illinois State University. (2014)

Performances and Exhibits

"Drawing: And Act of Resistance"
Jennifer Howell, Jean B MacDonald
(ISU) President's Lecture. - 2015

Book Review

Howell, Jennifer. Review of Effacer sa trace, by Malika Wagner (Albin Michel, 2016). Journal of North African Studies, vol. 23, no. 1/2, 2018, pp. 367-369, https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2017.1376768.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of L’Art de perdre, by Alice Zeniter (Flammarion/Albin Michel, 2017). Journal of North African Studies, vol. 23, no. 4, 2018, pp. 725-727, https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2018.1447244.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Nouvelles antillaises du XIXe siècle. Une anthologie, edited by Barbara T. Cooper and Roger Little (L’Harmattan, 2017). Dalhousie French Studies, vol. 112, 2018, p. 161, https://www.jstor.org/stable/45172539.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Zabor ou les psaumes, by Kamel Daoud (Actes Sud and Éditions Barzakh, 2017). Journal of North African Studies, vol. 23, no. 3, 2018, pp. 543-545, https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2017.1419594.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Chanson douce, by Leïla Slimani (Gallimard, 2016). Journal of North African Studies, vol. 22, no. 2, 2017, pp. 301-303, https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2017.1288695.

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. “Gender Equality? Hshouma! Women, Sexuality, and Comics Activism in Morocco.” Drawing (in) the Feminine: Women and Bande Dessinée. Edited by Margaret C. Flinn, The Ohio State UP, 2024, pp. 75-93.
Howell, Jennifer. “Rachid Bouchareb’s Hors la Loi (Outside the Law): A Lesson in History, Reception and Artistic Licence.” ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb. Edited by Michael Gott and Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp, Edinburgh UP, 2020, pp. 181-196.

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.

Howell, Jennifer. “Drawing the Muslim Self: Muslim Citizenship and Contemporary Islam in France.” Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims in the Contemporary French and Francophone Contexts. Edited by Ramona Mielusel, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 185-203.

Journal Article

Howell, Jennifer. “À chaque recette son histoire: Viet Kieu Food Writing and the Emergence of a Transnational Poetics.” Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, special issue: “Reorienting Culture Flows, France-Asia.” Forthcoming 2016.

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.