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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2011
Book Chapter
Introduction: Textual visual selves
Edwards, Natalie, Hubbell, Amy L. and Miller, Ann (2011). Introduction: Textual visual selves. Textual and visual selves: Photography, film and comic art in French autobiography. (pp. 1-15) edited by Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell and Amy Miller. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
2011
Book
Textual and visual selves: Photography, film and comic art in French autobiography
Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell and Ann Miller eds. (2011). Textual and visual selves: Photography, film and comic art in French autobiography. Lincoln, NE, United States: University of Nebraska Press.
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.
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.
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.
2011
Book Chapter
L'Algerie recurrente et l'Algerie errante dans l'ecriture des Francaises d'Algerie
Hubbell, Amy L. (2011). L'Algerie recurrente et l'Algerie errante dans l'ecriture des Francaises d'Algerie. Frictions et devenirs dans les écritures migrantes au féminin: Enracinements et renégociations. (pp. 29-47) edited by Anna Rocca and Névine El Nossery. Saarbrücken, Germany: Éditions Universitaires Européennes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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. doi: 10.3406/diasp.2008.1149
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.
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
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.
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.
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Associate Professor Amy Hubbell is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Current supervision
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Doctor Philosophy
Silenced Stories, Unveiled Identities: A Critical Analysis of Trans-generational Trauma Narratives in Polish Literature
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Dr Sol Rojas-Lizana, Dr Anna Mikhaylova
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Doctor Philosophy
Illegitimate Children of Dutch Colonialism in Indonesia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor 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
Illegitimate Children of Dutch Colonialism in Indonesia
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Annie Pohlman
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Doctor Philosophy
The Illegitimate Children of Dutch Colonialism in the Dutch East Indies
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Annie Pohlman
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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
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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
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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
Women, trauma, and memory writing in post-New Order Indonesian novels
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Annie Pohlman
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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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2025
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
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2024
Doctor Philosophy
Unfixing Self: Twenty-First Century Women's Phototexts in French
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Greg Hainge
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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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