Overview
Background
Amy is a specialist in Francophone autobiographies of exile and trauma. She is author of Hoarding Memory: Covering the Wounds of the Algerian War (U of Nebraska P, 2020), Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, Identity and Exile (U of Nebraska P, 2015), and A la recherche d'un emploi: Business French in a Communicative Context (Hackett, 2017). She has co-edited several volumes including Places of Traumatic Memory - a Global Context (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (2013), and Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film and Comic Art in French Autobiography (U of Nebraska P, 2011). She is currently working on her new project, Terrorism Testimony: French Narratives of Survival.
Availability
- Associate Professor Amy Hubbell is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, Truman State University
- Masters (Coursework), University of Michigan
- Postgraduate Diploma, University of Michigan
Research interests
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Terrorism Testimony
How do terrorism survivors of the Algerian War (1954-1962) and more recently the Charlie Hebdo and 13 November attacks in Paris (2015) talk about their survival in both personal and national contexts? What memory remains and what can be said after unspeakable terror occurs? How do they navigate newly physically and mentally disabled bodies in public and private spaces?
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Exile and Nostalgia
How does exile from one's home country result in nostalgia for the past? How is the former homeland recreated through literary expression and fixed in time? These are questions I address in my 2015 book Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, Identity and Exile.
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Memory and Trauma Studies
How is memory relayed through autobiography both immediately and many years after a traumatic event? These are the main themes underlying my research about French Algeria and Pied-Noir literature.
Research impacts
My current research focusses on how traumas from war, migration and terrorism are articulated in Francophone literature and art. In many instances the artists and authors who speak out about their own and their community's suffering have accumulated numerous fragments from what they have endured. In their attempts to preserve and share the trauma memory, repeating and layering occurs, often resulting in the reverse effect of covering over what they set out to lay bare. If these stories are not shared and received, healing for the individual and for the community cannot be completely achieved.
Works
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2023
Journal Article
Crowding out the Algerian War in French memorial books
Hubbell, Amy L. (2023). Crowding out the Algerian War in French memorial books. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 23 (2), 221-240. doi: 10.3138/diaspora.23.2.2023.07.25
2023
Journal Article
Un.siting French Studies
Hubbell, Amy, Hardwick, Joe, Barnett, Jenny Davis and Hanna, Barbara E. (2023). Un.siting French Studies. Australian Journal of French Studies, 60 (2), 113-121. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.2023.11
2022
Book Chapter
Sustaining the memory of colonial Algeria through food
Hubbell, Amy L. and van Beukering, Jorien (2022). Sustaining the memory of colonial Algeria through food. ‘Going Native?’ Settler Colonialism and Food. (pp. 221-245) edited by Ronald Ranta, Alejandro Colás and Daniel Monterescu. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-96268-5_11
2021
Other Outputs
Death of a Dream. Algeria 1958
Hubbell, Amy , van Beukering, Jorien , Barnett, Jenny , Brown, Jorgia and Alonso, Maïa (2021). Death of a Dream. Algeria 1958. Friedberg, Bavaria: EditionAtlantiS.
2021
Book Chapter
Translating Maïa Alonso’s death of a dream
Hubbell, Amy and van Beukering, Jorien (2021). Translating Maïa Alonso’s death of a dream. Death of a Dream, Algeria 1958: A True Novel (Collection France-Algérie). (pp. 13-14) Hesse, Germany: Edition Atlantis.
2021
Book Chapter
Circulating bodies: retelling the trauma of the Algerian War through photography and art
Hubbell, Amy L. (2021). Circulating bodies: retelling the trauma of the Algerian War through photography and art. Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. (pp. 36-57) edited by Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
2020
Journal Article
Discomforting bodies: French survivor testimony from the Algerian War
Hubbell, Amy L. (2020). Discomforting bodies: French survivor testimony from the Algerian War. Contemporary French Civilization, 45 (3-4), 351-363. doi: 10.3828/cfc.2020.21
2020
Journal Article
Reciprocating care in French survivor narratives from the Algerian War
Hubbell, Amy (2020). Reciprocating care in French survivor narratives from the Algerian War. Australian Journal of French Studies, 57 (3), 322-336. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.2020.28
2020
Journal Article
Excerpts from Letter to Zohra D.
Michel-Chich, Danielle and Hubbell, Amy L. (2020). Excerpts from Letter to Zohra D.. Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation.
2020
Book
Hoarding memory: covering the wounds of the Algerian War
Hubbell, Amy L. (2020). Hoarding memory: covering the wounds of the Algerian War. Lincoln, NE United States: University of Nebraska. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv17vf58z
2020
Book Chapter
Remembering the 5 July 1962 Massacre in Oran, Algeria
Hubbell, Amy L. (2020). Remembering the 5 July 1962 Massacre in Oran, Algeria. Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 219-240) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_11
2020
Book Chapter
Preface
Hubbell, Amy L., Akagawa, Natsuko, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Preface. Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context. (pp. v-vi) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4
2020
Book
Places of traumatic memory: a global context
Amy Lynn Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman eds. (2020). Places of traumatic memory: a global context. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4
2020
Book Chapter
Acknowledging trauma in a global context: narrative, memory and place
Hubbell, Amy L., Rojas-Lizana, Sol , Akagawa, Natsuko and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Acknowledging trauma in a global context: narrative, memory and place. Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 1-12) edited by Amy Lynn Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_1
2019
Journal Article
Shifting positions: amputation, prosthesis, and the embodied memory of Algeria
Hubbell, Amy L. (2019). Shifting positions: amputation, prosthesis, and the embodied memory of Algeria. Auto/Biography Studies, 34 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2019.1592366
2018
Journal Article
Scandalous memory: terrorism testimonial from the Algerian war
Hubbell, Amy L. (2018). Scandalous memory: terrorism testimonial from the Algerian war. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 22 (1), 49-57. doi: 10.1080/17409292.2018.1452822
2018
Journal Article
Layering over the wounds of Algeria in contemporary Pied-Noir art
Hubbell, Amy (2018). Layering over the wounds of Algeria in contemporary Pied-Noir art. EuropeNow: Journal for the Council for European Studies.
2018
Journal Article
Nos années rouges
Hubbell, Amy L. (2018). Nos années rouges. The Journal of North African Studies, 23 (3), 548-549. doi: 10.1080/13629387.2018.1432016
2018
Journal Article
Made in Algeria: mapping layers of colonial memory into contemporary visual art
Hubbell, Amy (2018). Made in Algeria: mapping layers of colonial memory into contemporary visual art. French Cultural Studies, 29 (1), 8-18. doi: 10.1177/0957155817739751
2017
Journal Article
"Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France: Comparative Perspectives" Edited by M. Borutta and J. Jansen
Hubbell, Amy (2017). "Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France: Comparative Perspectives" Edited by M. Borutta and J. Jansen. EuropeNow (6), 1-2.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor Amy Hubbell is:
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
The Illegitimate Children of Dutch Colonialism in the Dutch East Indies
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Annie Pohlman
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Master Philosophy
An interdisciplinary study of transgenerational trauma in Russia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana, Dr Anna Mikhaylova
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Doctor Philosophy
Investigating the role of artificial intelligence in translating domain-specific, regional language varieties: A translation of Quebec French sports journalism articles into English.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Angela Cook
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Doctor Philosophy
Unfixing Self: Twenty-First Century Women's Phototexts in French
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Greg Hainge
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Doctor Philosophy
20th century Western discourses in Martín Gusinde and José Emperaire's monographs on the Kawésqar world and southern Chile: A decolonial reading
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana
Completed supervision
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2023
Doctor Philosophy
Narrating History: Literary Depictions of Japanese Prisoners of War in Australia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Lucy Fraser
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2020
Doctor Philosophy
Representations of Transculturation and Agency in Bangladeshi Diaspora Novels in English
Principal Advisor
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
Gender Politics, Violence, and Affect in the films of Leila Djansi: Between Third Cinema and Mainstream Commercial Cinema in Africa
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Greg Hainge
Media
Enquiries
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- fiction
- immigrant, exile, and feminist autobiography
- Twentieth and twenty-first century French and Francophone literatures
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