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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
  • Education
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Current Courses

209.001French Phonetics

203.001Nations And Narration AMALI: Africa

112.001First-Year French (Part II)

112.002First-Year French (Part II)

213.001Written Communication in French

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

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.

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)