BIOGRAPHY

 

EDUCATION

  • PhD French & Francophone Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY
  • MPhil French, CUNY
  • French Certificate, CUNY
  • BA Languages and Literature, Bard College

AREAS OF INTEREST

Film and cinema, Francophone literature, immigration, theory & decolonization.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • The Franco-Algerian War Through a Twenty-First Century Lens: Film and History. Monograph Series: War, Culture and Society. Bloomsbury. Feb, 2020. 
  • “The Rhizomatic Algerian Revolution of Twenty-First Century Documentaries: Algérie Tours/ Détours (2006), La Chine est encore loin (2009) and Fidaï (2014)” French Politics, Culture, and Society, Spring 2018 issue.
  •  “An apology for French torturers: L’ennemi intime (Émil Florent Siri, 2007)”, in Mark de Valk, ed. Screening the Tortured Body: Cinema as Scaffold. Palgrave Macmillan (November 2016). 
  • “Clandestine Boat Immigration in French Film: The Homo Sacer on the Norman Coast Welcome (2009) and Le Havre (2011)” Global Humanities: Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies, (Volume on Migration and State Power) Neofelis verlag (February 2016) pp.123-139. 
  •  “Almost but not quite eating pork: Culinary Nationalism and Islamic Difference in Millennial French Comedies.” Performing Islam, Intellect (January 2016) pp.107-128.

EMAIL: nwallenbrock@hostos.cuny.edu