His research and teaching interests are in Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, more specifically, North African Literatures and Cultures, Film, Graphic Novels, Rap Music, Critical and Postcolonial Theory. Professor Berrada is particularly interested in analyzing the complex relationship between France and the Maghreb through the theoretical lenses of identity, space, traumatic memory, and displacement in view of a reassessment of contemporary claims to transnationalism. His research focuses on clandestine narratives, namely stories of illegal immigrants crossing South-North borders in Contemporary Maghrebi novels and films, illicit substances, representations of cannibalism and homosexuality in Maghrebi literature. Most recently, he is working on Representations of Colonial Massacres in Francophone Cultures. His next book project focuses on the notion of dissent in a globalized Morocco.
Taïeb Berrada
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
PhD, Northwestern University
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Research Areas
Additional Interests
- Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Francophone Literatures
- North African Literatures and Cultures
Research Statement
Biography
Born in Moscow, Russia, Taïeb Berrada spent his formative years in Rabat, Morocco. He received his BA in English and Russian at the University of Paul Valéry Montpellier III, his MA in French Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his PhD in French and Francophone Studies at Northwestern University. Before coming to Lehigh University, he was Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine.
Book:
La figure de l'intrus. Représentations postcoloniales maghrébines. Paris: L'Harmattan (2016)
Book chapters and refereed articles:
« Homosexualité, Islam et désacralisation du pouvoir royal dans Le Jour du Roi d’Abdellah Taïa » Dalhousie French Studies 117 (2020)
"Migrant Necropolitics at the Table: 'Civilized Cannibalism' in Mahi Binebine's Cannibales." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 21.6 (2019)
« L’ivresse cannabique: entre folie et écriture dans Pollens de Mahi Binebine », Mahi Binebine, Najib Rédouane, Yvette Bénayoun-Szmidt & Bernadette Rey Mimoso-Ruiz (Eds), Paris: L’Harmattan, (2016)
« La Rumeur et son Rap: emploi de la rumeur comme fonction discursive contestataire » Contemporary French Civilization 37.1 (2012): 59-77.
« A l’écoute des meskounates: la parole des possédées dans La femme sans sépulture d’Assia Djebar. » The International Journal of Francophone Studies 12.4 (2010): 557-573.
« L’Écriture et la problématique des intrus postcoloniaux dans Une enquête au pays de Driss Chraïbi. » Nouvelles Etudes Francophones 21.2 (2006) : 150-162.
« Du plagiat d’auteur à l’identité beur dans La fin tragique de Philomène Tralala de Fouad Laroui. » Expressions Maghrébines 4.1 (2005) : 69-82.
Teaching
Introduction to the Francophone World, Postcolonizing France: North African Immigration in France, Modernity in the Maghreb, The Harem in French and Francophone Literatures, Illegal Immigration in Francophone Literature and Film, The Algerian War in Francophone Literature and Film, Arab Woman in Postcolonial Francophone Literature and Film, Queer Morocco.