Associate Professor Amy Hubbell
Associate Professor

Amy Hubbell

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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.

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Associate Professor Amy Hubbell is:
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Fields of research

Comparative and transnational literature French language Language studies Language, Communication and Culture Literary studies Literature in French Postcolonial studies

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts, Truman State University
  • Masters (Coursework), University of Michigan
  • Postgraduate Diploma, University of Michigan

Research interests

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • 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.

Search Professor Amy Hubbell’s works on UQ eSpace

59 works between 2000 and 2023
All (59) Journal Article (34) Book Chapter (17) Book (6) Other Outputs (2)

41 - 59 of 59 works

2011

Journal Article

Introduction – Women’s self-narrative across the Francophone world

Edwards, Natalie, Hogarth, Christopher and Hubbell, Amy (2011). Introduction – Women’s self-narrative across the Francophone world. Women in French Studies, Special Issue, 11-13.

Introduction – Women’s self-narrative across the Francophone world

2011

Book

À la recherche d’un emploi: Business French in a communicative context

Hubbell, Amy L. (2011). À la recherche d’un emploi: Business French in a communicative context. Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.: Focus Publishing; R. Pullins.

À la recherche d’un emploi: Business French in a communicative context

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)

Weber-Fève, Stacey. Re-hybridizing transnational domesticity and femininity: Women’s contemporary filmmaking and lifewriting in France, Algeria, and Tunisia

2010

Journal Article

Redouane, Najib, et Yvette Benayoun-Szmidt, ed., Assia Djebar

Hubbell, Amy L. (2010). Redouane, Najib, et Yvette Benayoun-Szmidt, ed., Assia Djebar. The French Review, 83 (5), 1070-1071.

Redouane, Najib, et Yvette Benayoun-Szmidt, ed., Assia Djebar

2010

Book Chapter

Dual, Divided, and Doubled Selves: Three Women Writing between France and Algeria

Hubbell, Amy (2010). Dual, Divided, and Doubled Selves: Three Women Writing between France and Algeria. This 'self' which is not one : Women's life writing in French. (pp. 35-46) edited by Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth. Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Dual, Divided, and Doubled Selves: Three Women Writing between France and Algeria

2009

Book Chapter

Returning to the Baobab fou: (Dis)integrating roots in Ken Bugul’s and Marie Cardinal’s autobiographies

Hubbell, Amy (2009). Returning to the Baobab fou: (Dis)integrating roots in Ken Bugul’s and Marie Cardinal’s autobiographies. Emerging perspectives on Ken Bugul: From alternative choices to oppositional practices. (pp. 81-99) edited by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier. Trenton, N. J.: Africa World Press.

Returning to the Baobab fou: (Dis)integrating roots in Ken Bugul’s and Marie Cardinal’s autobiographies

2009

Journal Article

Ireland, Susan and Patrice Proulx, eds. Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec

Hubbell, Amy (2009). Ireland, Susan and Patrice Proulx, eds. Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 33 (2), 391-393. doi: 10.4148/2334-4415.1707

Ireland, Susan and Patrice Proulx, eds. Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec

2009

Journal Article

New media for food safety

Powell, Douglas A., Hubbell, Amy L., Chapman, Benjamin and Jacob, Casey, J. (2009). New media for food safety. Food Technology Magazine, 63 (1), 38-43.

New media for food safety

2009

Journal Article

Graebner, Seth. History's Place: Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007

Hubbell, Amy (2009). Graebner, Seth. History's Place: Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. The French Review, 82 (4), 836-837.

Graebner, Seth. History's Place: Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007

2009

Journal Article

Newmedia for communicating food safety

Powell, Douglas A., Hubbell, Amy L., Chapman, Benjamin and Jacob, Casey J. (2009). Newmedia for communicating food safety. Food Technology, 63 (1), 38-43.

Newmedia for communicating food safety

2008

Book Chapter

Slipping home in Marie Cardinal's Ecoutez la mer

Hubbell, Amy (2008). Slipping home in Marie Cardinal's Ecoutez la mer. Gender and Displacement: "Home" in Contemporary Francophone Women's Autobiography. (pp. 34-45) edited by Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth. Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Slipping home in Marie Cardinal's Ecoutez la mer

2008

Journal Article

"La valise ou le cercueil": un aller-retour dans la memoire des Pieds-Noirs

Hubbell, Amy L. (2008). "La valise ou le cercueil": un aller-retour dans la memoire des Pieds-Noirs. Revue Diasporas: histoire et sociétés, 12, 199-207.

"La valise ou le cercueil": un aller-retour dans la memoire des Pieds-Noirs

2008

Journal Article

Genre Trouble in Nicole Brossard’s un livre

Hubbell, Amy (2008). Genre Trouble in Nicole Brossard’s un livre. Women in French Studies, 116-123.

Genre Trouble in Nicole Brossard’s un livre

2007

Journal Article

An amputated elsewhere: Sustaining and relieving the phantom limb of Algeria

Hubbell, Amy L. (2007). An amputated elsewhere: Sustaining and relieving the phantom limb of Algeria. Life Writing, 4 (2), 247-262. doi: 10.1080/14484520701559810

An amputated elsewhere: Sustaining and relieving the phantom limb of Algeria

2007

Journal Article

The wounds of Algeria in Pied-Noir autobiography

Hubbell, Amy (2007). The wounds of Algeria in Pied-Noir autobiography. Dalhousie French Studies, 81, 59-68.

The wounds of Algeria in Pied-Noir autobiography

2007

Journal Article

Kelly, Debra. Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2005

Hubbell, Amy (2007). Kelly, Debra. Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2005. The French Review, 80 (3), 669-669.

Kelly, Debra. Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2005

2007

Journal Article

Van Cauwelaert, Didier. One Way: A Novel. Trans. Mark Polizzotti

Hubbell, Amy (2007). Van Cauwelaert, Didier. One Way: A Novel. Trans. Mark Polizzotti. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 31 (2), 478-480.

Van Cauwelaert, Didier. One Way: A Novel. Trans. Mark Polizzotti

2004

Journal Article

Looking back: Deconstructing postcolonial blindness in nostalgérie

Hubbell, Amy (2004). Looking back: Deconstructing postcolonial blindness in nostalgérie. CELAAN: Centre Etudes Litteratures Arts Afrique Nord, 3 (1-2), 85-95.

Looking back: Deconstructing postcolonial blindness in nostalgérie

2000

Journal Article

The other other: Women as seen in Chocolat and Outremer

Hubbell, Amy (2000). The other other: Women as seen in Chocolat and Outremer. Ellipsis, 2, 62-71.

The other other: Women as seen in Chocolat and Outremer

Past funding

  • 2013
    Hoarded Memory in Le¿la Sebbar's Life Writing
    UQ Early Career Researcher
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2013
    The Unspeakable or Representations of Violence in the Francophone World
    UQ New Staff Research Start-Up Fund
    Open grant

Availability

Associate Professor Amy Hubbell is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Master Philosophy

    An interdisciplinary study of transgenerational trauma in Russia

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana, Dr Anna Mikhaylova

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The Illegitimate Children of Dutch Colonialism in the Dutch East Indies

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Annie Pohlman

  • 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

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Unfixing Self: Twenty-First Century Women's Phototexts in French

    Associate Advisor

    Other advisors: Professor Greg Hainge

  • 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

Enquiries

Contact Associate Professor Amy Hubbell directly for media enquiries about:

  • fiction
  • immigrant, exile, and feminist autobiography
  • Twentieth and twenty-first century French and Francophone literatures

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