Nisrine Slitine El Mghari

Research Interests:
Maghrebi literature and culture
Colonial and post-colonial studies
Literature and culture of Muslim Spain
urban space
Cultural memory studies
Gender studies
feminist geography
Film and visual culture
Education

B.A., Human Resource Management, The University of Central Oklahoma, 2003

M.Ed. with emphasis in French, Honors, The University of Central Oklahoma, 2011

Ph.D., French, University of Oklahoma, 2018

 

Provost's Ph.D. Dissertation Prize For an Outstanding Dissertation in the area of Humanities and Fine Arts, University of Oklahoma, 2018

Research

Professor Slitine El Mghari's research focuses on representations of the city in 20th- and 21st-century Francophone and Arabophone Moroccan literature. More specifically, her work concerns itself with the different social, historical, and political forces that contribute to the construction of urban spaces, and draws on various critical and theoretical fields, including colonial and postcolonial studies, cultural memory studies, gender studies, and literary studies, while at the same time considering different contemporary Moroccan urban structures from a spatio-temporal perspective. Currently, she explores forms of popular culture, ranging from grafitti, the graphic novel, to new-age journalism, as well as texts written in dārija (the Moroccan dialect). Her interest in cinema studies includes more contemporary genres like the various web series produced by young North African artists and examining social, cultural, and political realities. Her research areas are also in Maghrebi Francophone and Arabophone literature and civilization, Sub-Saharan Francophone fiction, and French Antillian literature and culture. 

Publications

Book               

Villes et romans marocains : Espaces de vie, lieux de mémoire, et territoires tiers. Les presses de l’Université de Montréal, November 2023

https://pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/villes_et_romans_marocains

Articles           

“Contemporary Urban Experiences in Dārija: A Reading of Youssouf  Amine Elalamy’s Tqarqīb Ennāb (Chatter).” The Journal of North African Studies, Aug. 2021

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13629387.2021.1956315

“The Moroccan City: A Quest for Cultural Memory in Francophone and Arabophone  Contemporary Literature.” The Journal of North African Studies, Aug. 2020                                                  

https://doi.org/10.1080/13629387.2020.1806827

 “L’Intégrisme pseudo-religieux et la globalisation de la ville du XXIe siècle chez Mahi Binebine et Muhammaḍ al-Ashcarī.” National Association of African American Studies & Affiliates, 2019: 539-551. 

Interviews                   

 “The Aesthetics of the City: A Conversation with Youssouf Amine Elalamy.” World

 Literature Today, Jan./Feb. 2019: 14-18.

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/winter/aesthetics-city-conver…

Translations                

“From the Heart of the Void: A Conversation with Annie Le Brun,” by Karl Pollin. World

Literature Today. Oct. 2019: 26- 29.

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2019/autumn/heart-void-conversatio…

Book Reviews 

“The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern Perspectives, edited by Nizar F. Hermes and Gretchen Head.” Journal of Arabic Literature, 53, 1-2 (2022): 184-1881.

https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341434

“Le fou du roi by Mahi Binebine.” World Literature Today, Jan./Feb. 2018: 92-93.

https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2018/january/le-fou-du-roi-mahi-bi…