Jennifer Howell
- About
- Education
- Research
Current Courses
112.001First-Year French (Part II)
112.002First-Year French (Part II)
213.001Written Communication in French
203.001Nations And Narration AMALI: Africa
Teaching Interests & Areas
Francophone Literatures & Cultures, French for Business & the Professions, Composition & Conversation, North African Literature in Translation
Research Interests & Areas
Francophone North Africa, Francophone Literatures of the African and Vietnamese Diasporas, Photography, the Graphic Novel, Crime Fiction, Ecocriticism, History & Memory
Ph D French and Francophone World Studies
Other English
MA French
BA French
BS Biological Sciences
Book Review
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique, ed. Josef Gugler. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2015. Journal of North African Studies. Forthcoming.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Femmes en francophonie: Écritures et lectures du féminin dans les littératures francophones, ed. Isaac Bazié and Françoise Naudillon. Montreal: Mémoire d’encrier, 2014. Dalhousie French Studies 107: Forthcoming.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity, ed. H. Adlai Murdoch and Zsuzsanna Fagyal. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Dalhousie French Studies 107: Forthcoming.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Redrawing French Empire in Comics, by Mark McKinney. Columbus: The Ohio State UP, 2013. H-France Review 14.183 (2014): 1-5.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Dictionnaire des œuvres littéraires de l’Acadie des Maritimes, XXe siècle, ed. Janine Gallant and Maurice Raymond. Sherbrooke: Prise de Parole, 2012. Dalhousie French Studies 97 (2012): 161.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Gaston Kaboré: Conteur visionnaire du cinéma africain, by Marie-Magdeleine Chirol. Lyon: Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2011. Dalhousie French Studies 97 (2012): 160.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Le Récit aujourd’hui, ed. Jérôme Game. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2011. Dalhousie French Studies 100 (2012): 145-46.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Les Écofictions. Mythologies de la fin du monde, by Christian Chelebourg. Clamecy, France: Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2012. Dalhousie French Studies 99 (2012): 133-34.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Littératures francophones minoritaires (Canada, 1999-2010): Entretiens et textes, by Catherine Parayre. Vienna: Praesens Verlag, 2011. Dalhousie French Studies 97 (2012): 161-62.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Patrick Chamoiseau: A Critical Introduction, by Wendy Knepper. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2012. Dalhousie French Studies 98 (2012): 153-54.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Témoignages fictionnels au féminin: Une réécriture des blancs de la guerre civile algérienne, by Névine El Nossery. New York: Rodopi, 2012. Dalhousie French Studies 100 (2012): 137-39.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of The Environment in French and Francophone Literature and Film, ed. Jeff Persels. FLS 39 (2012). Dalhousie French Studies 100 (2012): 142-45.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Les littératures de langue française à l’heure de la mondialisation, ed. Lise Gauvin. Montreal: Hurtubise, 2010. Dalhousie French Studies 94 (2011): 178-79.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Thresholds of Meaning: Passage, Ritual and Liminality in Contemporary French Narrative, by Jean H. Duffy. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2011. Dalhousie French Studies 95 (2011): 116-17.
Howell, Jennifer. Review of Blasted, by Kate Story. St. John’s: Killick Press, 2008. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 24.2 (2009): 283-87.
Book, Authored
Howell, Jennifer. The Algerian War in French-Language Comics: Postcolonial Memory, History, and Subjectivity. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.
Book, Chapter
Howell, Jennifer. “Reconstructing Harki Sites of Memory in the Graphic Novel.” In A Practical Guide to French Harki Literature. Edited by Keith Moser. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014. 187-207.
Howell, Jennifer. “A Father’s Pain, a Daughter’s Story: Transcending the Trauma of Loss.” The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art. Névine El Nossery and Amy Hubbell, ed. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 285-304.
Journal Article
Howell, Jennifer. “Investigating the Enforced Disappearances of Algeria’s ‘Dark Decade’: Omar D’s and Kamel Khélif’s Commemorative Art Projects.” Journal of North African Studies, special issue: “Maghrebi Artistic and Literary Expressions in the 21st Century.” Forthcoming 2016.
Howell, Jennifer. “Comics and the Demystification of France’s Immigration ‘Problem’: Reading Christophe Dabitch’s Immigrants.” Modern & Contemporary France 23.4 (2015): 1-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2015.1043984
Howell, Jennifer. “Contes et légendes en filigrane: Lacunes et silences dans la transmission d’une mémoire vietnamienne chez Minh Tran Huy.” Women in French Studies: Forthcoming 2015.
Howell, Jennifer. “Vietnamese Foodways and Viet Kieu Postmemory in Clément Baloup’s Graphic Narratives.” European Comic Art 8.1 (2015): 25-51.
Howell, Jennifer. “The Practice of Multimodal Storytelling: Camus’s “L’hôte” as Bande Dessinée.” The French Review 87.1 (2013): 165-79.
Howell, Jennifer. “Sur les traces d’un père: ‘La quête harkéologique’ de Dalila Kerchouche.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 15.4 (2011): 415-22.
Howell, Jennifer “Decoding Marc Garanger’s Photographic Message in La Guerre d’Algérie vue par un appelé du contingent.” Dalhousie French Studies 92 (2010): 85-95.
Howell, Jennifer. “In Defiance of Genre: The Language of Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder Project.” Journal of European Studies 40.1 (2010): 59-72.
Howell, Jennifer. “Georgette!: Le roman ‘beur’ face à la postmodernité.” Études Francophones 24.1-2 (2009): 60-69.
Howell, Jennifer. “Illustrating Independence: The Algerian War Comic of the 1980s.” The Middle East Institute Viewpoints (Special Edition): The State of the Arts in the Middle East (May 2009): 23-25.
Howell, Jennifer. “Reconstituting Cultural Memory through Image and Text in Leïla Sebbar’s Le Chinois vert d’Afrique.” French Cultural Studies 19.1 (2008): 57-70.