Biography
Esther is a joint Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures (French & Francophone Studies). Her work explores the intersections of multilingualism, diaspora, translation, and postcolonialism across French, Modern Standard Arabic, Tunisian darija, Korean, and Tamazight literary spaces. Arguing for a move beyond traditional postcolonial pairings, her research challenges the colonizer-colonized dichotomy to offer new methodological frameworks for studying diasporic literatures across continents. Her current dissertation project, a comparative analysis of Maghrebi and Korean diasporic literatures, illustrates how multilingual authors navigate their linguistic repertoires to reshape identity, re-articulate memory, and forge new form to cultural expression.
Publications
“Subverting the ‘Original’: Self-Translation in Mohamed Choukri's Al-Khubz al-Ḥāfi.” Under Review.
“Le youyou dans la littérature maghrébine : L’amazighité au cœur de la réappropriation littéraire et multilingue.” Expressions Maghrébines, vol. 23, no. 2, Dec. 2024, pp. 109–29.
Teaching Experience
- FREN 10200 Beginning Elementary French II (Spring 2025, Instructor of Record)
- FREN 20100 Language, History, and Culture I (Autumn 2025, Instructor of Record)
- FREN 24700, GNSE 24700 Introduction à la littérature féminine au Maroc (Winter 2025, Course Assistant)