Faculty Profile

		Fazia Aitel, Ph.D. Assistant Professor E-mail: fazia.aitel@claremontmckenna.edu Phone: (909) 607-0477 Campus Address: Roberts North 217 Departments: Modern Languages
		Leave/Sabbatical Fall (on leave or sabbatical for Fall term)

Educational Background

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, September 2003. Distinguished dissertation award. Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.; Master of Philosophy. Comparative literature, February 2000. Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.; Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (D.E.A) and Maîtrise de Littérature Américaine Université de Paris VIII (France); Licence ès Lettres Université de Paris VIII. Département de Lettres Françaises.

Teaching Interests

• French, Comparative Literature

Research Interests

• Francophone literature from Africa and especially North Africa
• Berber studies
• Immigration in France
• Women’s writing in France and North Africa
• African cinema
• Nationalism, Postcolonial Theory and Globalization