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Julin Everett,

Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies; Chair, Department of French and Francophone Studies
French and Francophone Studies
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Biography

Julin Everett is a first-generation American. She was a first-generation college student during her undergraduate studies in Classical Music at Boston University. She holds a Ph.D. in Francophone Studies from UCLA. Dr. Everett responds to the pronouns she and her.

Academic History

Ph.D. in Francophone Studies, UCLA B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Classical Singing, Boston University

Academic Focus

French and Francophone Studies Visual Studies Postcolonial Studies Shoah Studies Queer Studies

Interests

Sci-fi Dogs Gardening Roadtrips

Courses Taught

FRENCH 44 - Advanced French CORE 1

Selected Research and Publications

BOOK Le Queer Impérial: Male Homoerotic Desire in Francophone Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Rodopi-Brill, 2018. INSTALLATION Scene/Unseen. Public Installation on Portraits of Jews Wearing the Yellow Star. At Ursinus College, with Cari Freno. Aug. 2017-Jan 2018. https://www.ursinus.edu/about/sceneunseen/ ARTICLES “Survivantes vivantes du genocide rwandais: Un Entretien avec Léo Kalinda, réalisateur de Mères Courages” Nouvelles Éditions Francophones, Fall 2018. “The Textual Ceremony: Writing against Trauma in Calixthe Beyela’s La Petite fille du réverbère” co-authored with Katerina Dee The French Review, 91.2 (December 2017). “Must la Victime Be Feminine? Postcolonial Violence, Gender Ambiguity and Homoerotic Desire in Sony Labou Tansi’s Je soussigné cardiaque.” RAL 44.1 (Spring 2013). “The Postcolonial Orphan’s Autobiography: Authoring the Self in Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter and Calixthe Beyala’s La petite fille du réverbère” College Literature 36.3, 2009. TRANSLATIONS Translation of “Les banlieues du politique: Des luttes des héritiers de l’immigration postcoloniale en France” by Ahmed Boubeker. In French Cultural Studies Dominic Thomas, ed., 24.2 (May 2013). Translation of “Créolisation” by Dominique Chancé. The Creolization of Theory. Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, eds. Duke University Press, 2011. Translation of excerpts of "L'Europe et les Antilles: Une interview d'Edouard Glissant" by Andrea Scwieger-Hiepko. The Creolization of Theory. Françoise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, eds. Duke University Press, 2011.

Awards and Honors

Lloyd Jones Award for Excellence in Advising and Mentoring, Ursinus College, 2018. Research Award for Archival work in Senegal, Appalachian State University, 2012. Dissertation-Year Fellowship, UCLA, 2009-2010 Alice Belkin Fellowship, UCLA, 2006-2007 Summer Research and Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA 2005, 2006 Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, UCLA 2004-2005/2007-2008