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Hicham Mazouz: Assistant Professor of French and Afro-Francophone & Caribbean StudiesPh.D. Literary, Cultural & Linguistic Studies [with focus on Francophone and African American
Diasporic studies] University of Miami
M.A. Comparative Literature in Francophone and African American Literature, Florida Atlantic University
B.A. French Studies, Florida Atlantic University
B.A. Licence Lettres modernes, Université d’Orléans.

Hicham Mazouz’s teaching and research interests focus on Black studies, and include French and
Afro-Francophone literature and Critical Race Theory from the seventeenth to the twentieth-first
centuries: Caribbean Literature, African and African American Diaspora Literature, American
and French slavery, and Black Atlantic Studies. He also coordinates the French program.

His current project tentatively entitled Abject Citizens: Critical Race and Political Belonging in
France and the U.S examines forms of political power and practices that create the contemporary
French and American societies. Hicham has published articles on a range of authors including James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Jean Genet, Abdellah Taïa, and various Afro-Caribbean authors in venues such as Abibisem:
Journal of African Culture and Civilization, Lingua Romana, and Editions Passage.

Prior to joining �ؾ���, Hicham has taught at the University of Miami,
Oxford College of Emory University, and Beloit College.