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
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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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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.
2017
Other Outputs
Algeria 1962: diary of the Apocalypse
Guiraud, Nicole (Original author), Hubbell, Amy L. (Translator) and Nabulsi, Muhib (Translator) (2017). Algeria 1962: diary of the Apocalypse. English ed. Friedberg, Germany: Edition Atlantis.
2016
Journal Article
Tyrannies of Distance, Perils of Proximity: Time, Space and Virtuality in the French and Francophone World
Hardwick, Joe and Hubbell, Amy (2016). Tyrannies of Distance, Perils of Proximity: Time, Space and Virtuality in the French and Francophone World. Australian Journal of French Studies, 53 (1-2), 3-18. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.2016.01
2015
Journal Article
Filling in the Void: Leila Sebbar's Collective Archaeology of Origins
Hubbell, Amy L. (2015). Filling in the Void: Leila Sebbar's Collective Archaeology of Origins. Expressions Maghrebines, 14 (1), 41-54. doi: 10.1353/exp.2015.0003
2015
Book
Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, identity and exile
Hubbell, Amy (2015). Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, identity and exile. Nebraska, United States: University of Nebraska Press.
2015
Book Chapter
Accumulating Algeria: Recurrent images in Pied-Noir visual works
Hubbell, Amy (2015). Accumulating Algeria: Recurrent images in Pied-Noir visual works. Framing French Culture. (pp. 209-227) edited by Natalie Edwards, Ben McCann and Peter Poiana. Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
2014
Journal Article
Self and stuff: accumulation in Francophone literature and art
Edwards, Natalie and Hubbell, Amy L. (2014). Self and stuff: accumulation in Francophone literature and art. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 38 (2), 2.1-2.5. doi: 10.4148/2334-4415.1813
2014
Journal Article
Accumulated testimony: layering French girls' diaries on the Algerian exodus
Hubbell, Amy L. (2014). Accumulated testimony: layering French girls' diaries on the Algerian exodus. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 38 (2), 1-16. doi: 10.4148/2334-4415.1011
2013
Journal Article
(In)edible Algeria: transmitting Pied-Noir nostalgia through food
Hubbell, Amy (2013). (In)edible Algeria: transmitting Pied-Noir nostalgia through food. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 10 (2), 1-18. doi: 10.5130/portal.v10i2.2991
2013
Journal Article
Reeck, Laura. Writerly identities in Beur fiction and beyond
Hubbell, Amy L. (2013). Reeck, Laura. Writerly identities in Beur fiction and beyond. French Review, 86 (5), 1040-1041.
2013
Book
The Unspeakable Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art
Nevine El Nossery and Amy Hubbell eds. (2013). The Unspeakable Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2013
Book Chapter
Unspoken Algeria: Transmitting traumatic memories of the Algerian war
Hubbell, Amy (2013). Unspoken Algeria: Transmitting traumatic memories of the Algerian war. The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art. (pp. 305-324) edited by Nevine El Nossery and Amy L. Hubbell. Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2013
Book Chapter
Transmitting the unspeakable through literature and art
El Nossery, Névine and Hubbell, Amy (2013). Transmitting the unspeakable through literature and art. The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art. (pp. 1-20) edited by Névine El Nossery and Amy L. Hubbell. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2013
Book Chapter
Separation and return in the intellectual work of the Pieds-Noirs
Hubbell, Amy (2013). Separation and return in the intellectual work of the Pieds-Noirs. The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual. (pp. 71-92) edited by Christopher Hogarth and Natalie Edwards. Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2013
Book Chapter
The words that say it: Pied-Noir women confronting Algerian memory
Hubbell, Amy L. (2013). The words that say it: Pied-Noir women confronting Algerian memory. Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives. (pp. 103-116) edited by Anna Rocca and Kenneth Reeds. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2012
Journal Article
The past is present: Pied-Noir returns to Algeria
Hubbell, Amy L. (2012). The past is present: Pied-Noir returns to Algeria. Nottingham French Studies, 51 (1), 66-77. doi: 10.3366/nfs.2012.0007
2011
Journal Article
(Re)turning to ruins: Pied-Noir visual returns to Algeria
Hubbell, Amy L. (2011). (Re)turning to ruins: Pied-Noir visual returns to Algeria. Modern and Contemporary France, 19 (2), 147-161. doi: 10.1080/09639489.2011.565162
2011
Journal Article
Weber-Fève, Stacey. Re-hybridizing transnational domesticity and femininity: Women’s contemporary filmmaking and lifewriting in France, Algeria, and Tunisia
Hubbell, Amy (2011). Weber-Fève, Stacey. Re-hybridizing transnational domesticity and femininity: Women’s contemporary filmmaking and lifewriting in France, Algeria, and Tunisia. The French Review, 85 (2)
2011
Book Chapter
Viewing the past through a ‘nostalgeric’ lens: Pied-Noir photo-documentaries
Hubbell, Amy L. (2011). Viewing the past through a ‘nostalgeric’ lens: Pied-Noir photo-documentaries. Textual and visual selves: Photography, film and comic art in French autobiography. (pp. 167-187) edited by Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell and Amy Miller. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
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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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