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, homeland, and 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 mid-century. She will be spending the 2007-2008 academic year at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon as part of a teaching exchange with Northwestern.