Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili
DPhil Candidate
Wolfson College
Thesis title: Decolonising Francophone Algerian Literature in and through Translation
Supervisor: Professor Matthew Reynolds, Professor Patrick McGuinness
Research interests: Literary Translation; Postcolonialism, Decolonisation; Diasporic Writing; Gothic and Horror; Folkloric Writing; Queer and Feminist Postcolonial; Francophone & Anglophone Writing from the African continent; MENA literature.
Teaching:
- French Paper IIA Translation from Modern French
- French Paper III Short Texts (Ndiaye)
- French Paper IV Narrative Fiction (Condé)
- French Paper XI Prescribed Authors (Djebar)
- English Paper IV Literature 1910-Present
- Dissertations in French and/or English
I am the French language editor for the OCCT Review, co-convenor of the OCCT Discussion Groups and co-organiser of the forthcoming conference (May 2024) on Literature and Language Difference.
Conference & Seminar Papers:
- Translanguaging Assia Djebar in ‘English’: An Anti-Colonial Stance. University of Massachusetts Amherst, Graduate Conference on Translation Studies. (23-24 April 2024)
- Dismantling Borders: (Un)Naming the Queer Diasporic Algérienne. University of Cambridge, CRASSH Queer and Trans Philologies Conference. (15-16 March 2024)
- ‘Il y en avait deux’: Writing and Translating Algeria into the World Literature Canon. French Graduate Seminar, University of Oxford. (6 February 2024)
- ‘Qui ci qui la France t’a fi ?’ Taboo, vulgarity and violence in Azouz Begag’s ‘Les chiens aussi’. Princeton University, Department of French and Italian Annual Graduate Conference. (14 April 2023)
