El-Hoss, Tamara

Degrees Granted

Ph.D., French Literature, University of Toronto (2005)
M.A., French Literature, University of Toronto (1997)
B.A., French Studies, York University (1989)

Research Interests

• Francophone Literatures (Maghreb, Caraïbes, Afrique noire).
• "Beur" literature and film.
• Gender roles, the representation of women, identity.
• Cultural and linguistique métissage .

Selected list of publications

 “Am I the ‘Monster’, or Are You? The Representation of the (In)Human in Mathieu Kassovitz's La Haine ”, eBook of the 7th Global Conference on Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil, September 14-17, 2009, Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford. (In print)

 “L’usage des italiques dans L’Amour, la fantasia d’Assia Djebar: une écriture hybride”, in La Rhétorique au féminin. Ed. A. Hayward, Quebec, Éditions Nota bene, 2006, pp.347-361.

“Veiling/Unveiling in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s The Sand Child : Disguise and Deception of the Female Protagonist”, in Image and Imagery: Disguise, Deception, Trompe L’Oeil. Ed. Leslie Boldt-Irons, Corrado Federici, Ernesto Virgulti. New York: Peter Lang, 2009, pp.149-160.

“The Zombie’s ‘Great Escape’ in René Depestre’s Hadriana dans tous mes rêves”, in Monstrous Deviations in Literature and the Arts. Ed. Adriana Spahr and Cristina Santos. Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford, England. (In print)

Selected list of courses taught at Brock

• FREN 2F03     Literature and Culture: The French-Speaking World
• FREN 2P65     Culture and Civilization of France to 1700
• FREN 2P95     Francophone Cultures and Civilizations
• FREN 3P53     Twentieth-Century French Literature to 1935
• FREN 3P65     Culture and Civilization of France from 1700 to the Present
• FREN 3P83     African Literature in French
• FREN 3P84     Caribbean Literature in French
• FREN 3P87     Maghrebian Literature in French
• FREN 4P80     “Beur” Literature and Film
• FREN 4P96     Critical Theory and Methodology