Charlotte Gehl Rouchouze

Charlotte Gehl Rouchouze joined the department in 2003 as a PhD student. She holds a B.A. in French and Anthropology from Emory University and an M.A. in French Cultural Studies from Columbia University's Reid Hall campus in Paris. Her Master's thesis, entitled "Ces écrivains qui renaissent dans la langue française" was a study of several contemporary authors in France who are non-native French speakers. Her current interests include narratives of home and exile, national identity, and contemporary Francophone Jewish writers. She is currently working on a dissertation on the subject of discourses of home in Francophone literature by Jews from Arab countries. This project examines in particular various representations of the exodus of Jews out of North Africa in the 20th century and the political and ideological implications of these representations.