Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili

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: I have taught tutorials on gothic & horror, the short story, francophone and anglophone African literature. I am open to teaching tutorials, classes and supervising dissertations in both French and English faculties, especially on subjects related to translation and decolonisation.

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)