Emily is a Ph.D. candidate in UVA's Department of French. Her interdisciplinary research explores memory and trauma from France’s colonial past in Algeria, specifically examining how the Algerian War of Independence is remembered across generations. She is finishing her dissertation focusing on representations of clinical encounters in contemporary Algerian and French literature and mental healthcare narratives. Emily holds a M.A. in French from the University of Virginia and a B.A. in History / French and Francophone Studies from Carleton College. 

Research Interests

• 20th/21st Century Francophone Literature
•  Memory Studies
• Medical Humanities 
•  Narratology 

Honors/Awards

• Chateaubriand Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences
• University of Virginia – École normale supérieure Exchange
• University of Virginia Democracy Fellow 2020-2021

Courses

• FREN 1010, 1020, 2010, 2020, 3032

Scholarly Activity

• "Questioning the Archive of Algerian Independence: Towards a Decolonized History,” Co-organizer, Conference for 60th Anniversary of Algerian Independence, University of Virginia, March 2022.
• "Weaving Traces of the Algerian War of Independence in Clinical Encounters and Perspectives," American Institute of Maghrib Studies Graduate Dissertation Workshop, October 2023.
• “Cartographies of Healing: Space, Narrative, and Archival Repair in La frontière invisible,” Presentation for Postgraduate Study Day: Association of Modern and Contemporary France and the Société des dix-neuviémistes, June 2021.