Jennifer Howell
Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 238
Office Hours
By appointment only.
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Selected Research
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
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 and Contracts
Generation Study Abroad New Program Initiative
Jennifer Howell.
Office of International Studies and Programs. 2015 - 2016
Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia: Literature, the Arts, and Cinema since Independence
Jennifer Howell.
National Endowment for the Humanities. June 23 2014 - July 11 2014
Clément Baloup: A Case Study in Transnationalism and Diaspora in A Case Study in Transnationalism and Diaspora in Contemporary Viet Kieu Narrative
Jennifer Howell.
University Research Grant Program. 2014 - 2015
Clément Baloup: The Colors of Exile
Jennifer Howell.
Harold K. Sage Foundation. October 2014 - March 2015
International Travel Grant
Jennifer Howell.
College of Arts and Sciences. October 16 2014 - October 17 2014
Reparative Narratives, Postmemory, and Photography: The Algerian War in French-Language Comics
Jennifer Howell.
University Research Grant Program. 2013 - 2014
MECCPAC
Jennifer Howell.
Dean of Students. - March 2015
Performances and Exhibits
"Drawing: And Act of Resistance"
Jennifer Howell, Jean B MacDonald.
(ISU) President's Lecture. - 2015
Jennifer Howell, Jean B MacDonald.
(ISU) President's Lecture. - 2015
Book Review
Review of Effacer sa trace, by Malika Wagner (Albin Michel, 2016)
Jennifer Howell.
(2018), 23, 367-369, Journal of North African Studies
Review of L’Art de perdre, by Alice Zeniter (Flammarion/Albin Michel, 2017)
Jennifer Howell.
(2018), 23, 725-727, Journal of North African Studies
Review of Nouvelles antillaises du XIXe siècle. Une anthologie, edited by Barbara T. Cooper and Roger Little (L’Harmattan, 2017)
Jennifer Howell.
(2018), 112, 161, Dalhousie French Studies
Review of Zabor ou les psaumes, by Kamel Daoud (Actes Sud and Éditions Barzakh, 2017)
Jennifer Howell.
(2018), 23, 543-545, Journal of North African Studies
Review of Chanson douce, by Leïla Slimani (Gallimard, 2016)
Jennifer Howell.
(2017), 22, 301-303, Journal of North African Studies
Review of Hizya, by Maïssa Bey (Éditions de l’Aube, 2015)
Jennifer Howell.
(2017), 22, 696-698, Journal of North African Studies
Review of Yoko et les gens du Barzakh, by Djamel Mati (Chihab éditions, 2016)
Jennifer Howell.
(2017), 22, 172-174, Journal of North African Studies
Rue des Perplexes, by Mohamed Magani. Algiers: Chihab éditions, 2013
Jennifer Howell.
(2017), 22, 174-175, Journal of North African Studies
Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique, ed. Josef Gugler. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2015
Jennifer Howell.
(2016), 21, 911-913, Journal of North African Studies
Femmes en francophonie: Écritures et lectures du féminin dans les littératures francophones, ed. Isaac Bazié and Françoise Naudillon. Montreal: Mémoire d’encrier, 2014
Jennifer Howell.
(2015), 107, 109-110, Dalhousie French Studies
Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity, ed. H. Adlai Murdoch and Zsuzsanna Fagyal. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013
Jennifer Howell.
(2015), 107, 108-109, Dalhousie French Studies
Redrawing French Empire in Comics, by Mark McKinney. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2013
Jennifer Howell.
(2014), 14, 5, H-France Review
Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires de l’Acadie des Maritimes, XXe siècle, ed. Janine Gallant and Maurice Raymond. Sherbrooke: Prise de Parole, 2012
Jennifer Howell.
(2012), 97, 161, Dalhousie French Studies
Gaston Kaboré: Conteur visionnaire du cinéma africain, by Marie-Magdeleine Chirol. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2011
Jennifer Howell.
(2012), 97, 160, Dalhousie French Studies
Le Récit aujourd’hui, ed. Jérôme Game. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2011
Jennifer Howell.
(2012), 100, 145-146, Dalhousie French Studies
Les Écofictions. Mythologies de la fin du monde, by Christian Chelebourg. Clamecy, France: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2012
Jennifer Howell.
(2012), 99, 133-134, Dalhousie French Studies
Littératures francophones minoritaires (Canada, 1999-2010): Entretiens et textes, by Catherine Parayre. Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2011
Jennifer Howell.
(2012), 97, 161-162, Dalhousie French Studies
Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction, by Wendy Knepper. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2012
Jennifer Howell.
(2012), 98, 153-154, Dalhousie French Studies
The Environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film, ed. Jeff Persels. FLS 39 (2012)
Jennifer Howell.
(2012), 100, 142-145, Dalhousie French Studies
Témoignages fictionnels au féminin: Une réécriture des blancs de la guerre civile algérienne, by Névine El Nossery. New York: Rodopi, 2012
Jennifer Howell.
(2012), 100, 137-139, Dalhousie French Studies
Les littératures de langue française à l’heure de la mondialisation, ed. Lise Gauvin. Montreal: Hurtubise, 2010
Jennifer Howell.
(2011), 94, 178-179, Dalhousie French Studies
Thresholds of Meaning: Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative, by Jean H. Duffy. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2011
Jennifer Howell.
(2011), 95, 116-117, Dalhousie French Studies
Blasted, by Kate Story. St. John's: Killick Press, 2008
Jennifer Howell.
(2009), 24, 283-287, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies
Book, Authored
The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity
Jennifer Howell.
(2015), 260, Lexington Books
Book, Chapter
Gender Equality? Hshouma! Women, Sexuality, and Comics Activism in Morocco
Jennifer Howell.
(2024), 75-93, Drawing (in) the Feminine: Women and Bande Dessinée, The Ohio State UP
Rachid Bouchareb’s Hors la Loi (Outside the Law): A Lesson in History, Reception and Artistic Licence
Jennifer Howell.
(2020), 181-196, ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb, Edinburgh UP
Reconstructing Harki Sites of Memory in the Graphic Novel
Jennifer Howell.
(2014), 187-207, A Practical Guide to French Harki Literature, Lexington Books
A Father’s Pain, a Daughter’s Story: Transcending the Trauma of Loss
Jennifer Howell.
(2013), 285-304, The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Drawing the Muslim Self: Muslim Citizenship and Contemporary Islam in France
Jennifer Howell.
185-203, Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims in the Contemporary French and Francophone Contexts, Palgrave Macmillan
Post-Revolutionary Tunisia in Comics and Cartooning
Jennifer Howell.
Graphic Narratives of Resistance, Edinburgh UP
Journal Article
À chaque recette son histoire: Viet Kieu Food Writing and the Emergence of a Transnational Poetics
Jennifer Howell.
Contemporary French & Francophone Studies, 21 (1), 72-80, (2017)
Investigating the Enforced Disappearances of Algeria’s ‘Dark Decade’: Omar D’s and Kamel Khélif’s Commemorative Art Projects
Jennifer Howell.
Journal of North African Studies, 21 (2), 213-234, (2016)
Comics and the Demystification of France’s Immigration ‘Problem’: Reading Christophe Dabitch’s Immigrants
Jennifer Howell.
Modern & Contemporary France, 23 (4), 20, (2015)
Contes et légendes en filigrane: Lacunes et silences dans la transmission d’une mémoire vietnamienne chez Minh Tran Huy
Jennifer Howell.
Women in French Studies, (Special Issue: Select Essays from Women in French International Conference), 89-102, (2015)
Vietnamese Foodways and Viet Kieu Postmemory in Clément Baloup’s Graphic Narratives
Jennifer Howell.
European Comic Art, 8 (1), 25-51, (2015)
The Practice of Multimodal Storytelling: Camus’s “L’hôte” as Bande Dessinée
Jennifer Howell.
The French Review, 87 (1), 165-179, (2013)
Sur les traces d’un père: ‘La quête harkéologique’ de Dalila Kerchouche
Jennifer Howell.
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 15 (4), 415-422, (2011)
Decoding Marc Garanger’s Photographic Message in La Guerre d’Algérie vue par un appelé du contingent
Jennifer Howell.
Dalhousie French Studies, 92, 85-95, (2010)
In Defiance of Genre: The Language of Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder Project
Jennifer Howell.
Journal of European Studies, 40 (1), 59-72, (2010)
Georgette!: Le roman ‘beur’ face à la postmodernité
Jennifer Howell.
Études Francophones, 24 (1-2), 60-69, (2009)
Illustrating Independence: The Algerian War Comic of the
Jennifer Howell.
The Middle East Institute Viewpoints (Special Edition): The State of the Arts in the Middle East, (May), 23-25, (2009)
Reconstituting Cultural Memory through Image and Text in Leïla Sebbar’s Le Chinois vert d’Afrique
Jennifer Howell.
French Cultural Studies, 19 (1), 57-70, (2008)