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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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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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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