Dominique D. Fisher
Professor of French
At UNC since 1990


Ph.D. U of California-Berkeley, 1987

Areas of Research: Francophone Studies (The Maghreb, Québec) Cultural and Literary Theory Postcolonial Theory Cultural Studies Gender Studies Nineteenth Century Literature

Telephone: 919-962-1171

Email:domfisc@email.unc.edu

Mailing Address:
132 Dey Hall, CB#3170
Dept of Romance Languages & Literatures
UNC-Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3170



Synopsis:
Dominique D. Fisher is a professor of French. She received her graduate degrees from La Sorbonne (D.E.S.S. in social psychology)and from the University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. in French). She teaches literary and cultural theory, postcolonial theory, Francophone Studies (the Maghreb and Québec), European Studies, French Cultural Studies, post-romantic poetry and fin-de-siècle literature.

Her recent publications include :
Ecrire l'urgence. Collection Etudes Transnationales et comparées Hafid Gafaiti. Paris, L'Harmattan, 2007. 286p. www.editions-harmattan.fr 

The Rhetoric of the Other: Lesbian and Gay Strategies of Resistance in French and Francophone Contexts. New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2003, 178 pp. With Martine Antle.

Perspectives in French Studies at the Turn of the Millennium. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, vol 26/1, Winter 2002, 248 pp. With Martine Antle.

Tahar Djaout, vers une écriture transdisciplinaire: "Les « chercheurs d'os » et la traversée des frontières entre histoire et littérature." Echanges et mutations des modèles littéraires entre Europe et Algérie, Charles Bonn, Ed. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2004 : 51-58.

"L'Anamnèse, histoire et litérature en état d'urgence. Expressions Maghrébines 2/1 (2003) : 113-123.

"L'Adoption du PACS: 'Exception française,' 'communitarisme,' et symbolique identitaire." Contemporary French Civilization 27/2 (2003): 211-230

"A propos du 'Rachildisme'." Nineteenth-Century French Studies 31/3-4, Spring Summer 2003 : 297-310.

"Reassessing French Studies in the Context of Postmodern Geopolitics." Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, 26/1 (2002): 8-21.

"Introduction: The Rhetoric of the Other: Lesbian and Gay Stategies of Resistance in French and Francophone Contexts." (New Orleans: University Press of the South, 2002) (xiii-xxvii). With Martine Antle.