EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT. Assistant Professor of French, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA. Fall present

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1 CLAUDIA FRANCESCA ESPOSITO Department of Modern Languages / University of Massachusetts-Boston 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA Tel. (617) / (617) claudia.esposito@umb.edu EDUCATION Brown University Ph.D. Department of French Studies, May 2007 Dissertation: Mediterranean Imaginaries: Writing Transcultural Subjectivities in Contemporary Francophone Literature. Director: Réda Bensmaïa; Readers: Pierre Saint-Amand, Massimo Riva M.A., French Studies, 2002 University of Massachusetts, Amherst M.A., French and Francophone Studies, 2000 Thesis: The Public Scribe, a translation with critical commentary of Tahar Ben Jelloun s L écrivain public. Boston University B.Sc., Print Journalism/ Minor in French, 1994 EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor of French, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA. Fall present Visiting Assistant Professor of French, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA Faculty Fellow. Department of French, Wheaton College, Norton, MA. Fall Lecturer, Université de Lyon II, Lyon, France Teaching Assistant. Department of French Studies, Brown University Book and Edited Journal PUBLICATIONS The Narrative Mediterranean: Beyond France and the Maghreb (contracted to Lexington Press, a division of Rowman and Littlefield). Co-Editor (invited), Special Issue of Expressions Maghrébines Le Maghreb méditerranéen: littératures et plurilinguisme, Vol 11:2 (Forthcoming, 2012). Refereed Journal.

2 Esposito, 2 Articles "Ronsard in the Metro: Abdellatif Kechiche and the Poetics of Space", Studies in French Cinema, Vol 11: 3. Intellect Press. (October, 2011). Refereed Journal "Ecrire l écart: Albert Memmi et l impossible nécessité de traduire", The French Review, Vol (Forthcoming, December 2011). Refereed Journal. South of the Capital: Geographies of Resistance in Maghrebi-French Film. Expressions maghrébines Vol. 8 No. 2 (Winter 2009) Refereed Journal. Neapolitan Baroque: Tahar Ben Jelloun s Italian Works. CELAAN Vol IV No.3 (Spring 2006) Refereed Journal. Translating the Self: Amin Maalouf s Léon l Africain. Comparative Literature and Translation/Littérature Comparée et Traduction (ed. CCLMC, Rabat), Morocco, (2006) Conference proceedings. Reviews and Critical Interviews "Literature is Language: Interview with Amara Lakhous", Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Online at (Forthcoming, in print 2012). Refereed Journal. "Les étoiles de Sidi Moumen--Mahi Binebine", The French Review, Vol (book review) (April 2011) Refereed Journal. Of Monuments and Documents, Review of Migrant Voices/Visions: Film and the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Italy Festival at Brown University. Metamorphoses: A Journal of Literary Translation, Vol (2006). Festival Review. Les villes capitales. Equinoxes 1: 5 (Spring 2005) Editorial. SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES "Francophone, Maghrebi, Italian: Language, Culture and Citizenship", MLA Annual Conference, Los Angeles, January 2011 "Albert Camus' Mediterranean Humanism in the 21st Century", Société des Professeurs Français et Francophones d'amérique, Fordham University, New York, October 2010 "Addio Farança: Theorizing New Idioms" (paper) / Chair of panel "The Maghreb, The World and The Text" World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies, Barcelona July 2010 "Tahar Ben Jelloun s Neapolitan Baroque: Francophone Literature in the 21st Century" Research Center for Urban and Cultural History, UMass Boston, April 2010

3 "Narratives of Emigration: Deferral and Disillusion" NeMLA, Montreal April 2010 Esposito, 3 "Abdellatif Kechiche s Poetics of Space" (paper)/ Organizer of panel "Metaphors of Space in Contemporary Maghrebi-French Cinema", Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, Boston, November 2009 On the Postcolonial Mediterranean. After Writing Back; Present and Future Perspectives of Postcolonial Studies, Bergamo, Italy, October 2009 Facing In, Facing Out: Spaces of Contestation in Maghrebi-French Film. Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, MA, February, 2009 Ports of Call: Geographies of Resistance in Beur Cinema. Middle Eastern Studies Association s Annual Conference, Washington, DC. November 2008 Transnational Tangier: Ben Jelloun s Mirror Cities. Performing Tangier Conference. International Centre for Performance Studies. Tangier, Morocco, May 2008 Mediterranean Metaphors: Writing In and Around France and North Africa. Boundaries and Limits of Postcolonialism Conference. Florida State University, November 2006 Amin Maalouf, Translator of Léon l Africain. Colloque International Littératures Comparées et Traduction, (CCLMC), Fès, Morocco, July 2005 De(s)rives Méditerranéennes. Conseil Intl. d Etudes Francophones, New Orleans, June 2003 Beur literature and the third world text. Borderlands Conference, University of Massachusetts- Amherst, March 2001 Reconsidering Jameson s Third World Texts: The Narratives of Paul Smaïl. The Humanities Center, Harvard University February 2001 (INVITED TALK) Revisiting the Maghreb: National Allegory in the Narratives of Paul Smaïl. Middle Eastern Studies Association s Annual Conference, Orlando, FL. November 2000 TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2008-present University of Massachusetts Boston French 102 -Elementary French- 2nd semester French 201 and 202 -Intermediate French- 1st and 2nd semester French 301- French Composition French 411- Translation French th Century French Novel French th Century French Theater French 490- France and the Maghreb (special topic) Modern Languages 390- From the Harem to Hip Hop (special topic) Modern Languages Cities of the Francophone World (special topic)

4 Esposito, 4 French 478 -Independent Study on the press in Africa French Theories of Pedagogy College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA French 101 and Elementary French 1st and 2nd semester French 201 and Intermediate French- 1st and 2nd semester French 399- Encounters with the Maghreb Brown University, Providence, RI French 10 and 20 -Elementary French -1st and 2nd semester French 52 - Introduction to French Literature French 60 -Advanced French Grammar and Composition Université Lyon II, Lyon, France English for students preparing for the CAPES (national exam) and 2nd and 3rd year English grammar University of Massachusetts Amherst Italian 101 and Elementary Italian -1st and 2nd semester. University of Massachusetts Boston Department of Modern Languages PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Chair, Search Committee for full-time French faculty member Member, Search Committee for Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Italian Department Personnel Committee Study Abroad Liaison College and University Member, Library Committee Member, Advisory Board, RCUCH Member, Atlantic Studies Task-Force Committee. Profession Reviewer for elementary and intermediate French textbooks: Liaisons (Heinle), A votre tour (Wiley).

5 Esposito, 5 NeMLA Summer Research Fellowship February 2010 FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS Martha Bowditch Alden Prize, for excellence in teaching in the French Studies Department, Brown University, M. Edwards Fellowship. Merit-based dissertation fellowship. Brown University, Fall 2004 Brown University Fellowship, first-year fellowship for graduate study, Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (FLAS) for the study of Arabic, summer 1999 Georgetown University Grant for the study of Arabic, Tangier, Morocco, summer 1999 LANGUAGES Italian and English: Native French: Near-native Classical Arabic: Reading/Writing knowledge. (Earned Diplôme Universitaire d Arabe Moderne, Lyon, France, June 2004). Spanish: Basic Professional Affiliations Modern Language Association (MLA) Association of Teachers of French (AATF) American Institute for Maghreb Studies (AIMS)