FACULTY 
Katarzyna Pieprzak
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Department of Romance Languages
Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
Department of Romance Languages
Areas of Expertise and Interest
- Contemporary Literature from North Africa
- Clandestine Migration in Literature and Art
- Museums in Africa and the Middle East
- Contemporary Art from North Africa
- Postcolonial Theory from the Francophone World
Courses Taught (RLFR/COMP)
- 102 Introduction to French Language and Francophone Cultures
- 103 Intermediate Studies in French Language and Francophone Cultures
- 104 Advanced Intermediate Studies in French Language and Francophone Cultures
- 111 Introduction to Francophone Studies
- 226 Contemporary Short Stories from North Africa
- 312T Francographic Islands
- 408 Imagined Algeria
- 412 Landscapes of Migration in the Francophone World
- COMP 111 Nature of Narrative
Education
- 2001 Ph.D., University of Michigan, Program in Comparative Literature.
- 1998 M.A., University of Michigan, Program in Comparative Literature.
- 1995 B.A., Rice University, magna cum laude, Departments of English, French and Slavic Studies.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
- Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Morocco, (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming January 2010).
- Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature: Remapping Uncertain Territories, co-edited with Magali Compan, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007).
- "Nostalgia and the New Cosmopolitan: Literary and Artistic Interventions in the City of Casablanca" Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature 33.1 (Winter 2009).
- “Art in the Streets: Modern Art, Museum Practice and the Urban Environment in Contemporary Morocco” MESA Bulletin (forthcoming Summer 2008).
- “Ruins, Rumors and Traces of the City of Brass: Moroccan Modernity and Memories of the Arab Global City” Research in African Literatures 38.4 (Winter 2007): 187-203
- “Bodies on the Beach: Youssef Elalamy and Moroccan Landscapes of the Clandestine,” Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature: Remapping Uncertain Territories, Katarzyna Pieprzak and Magali Compan ed, (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007): 104-122.
- “Citizens and Subjects in the Bank: Corporate Visions of Modern Art and Moroccan Identity”
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa: Essays on Contemporary History, Culture and Politics, James McDougall ed. (London: Frank Cass, 2003) and Journal of North African Studies 8.1 (Spring 2003): 131-152. - “Whose Patrimony Is It Anyway? The Quarrel between Ali Baba’s Cave and the National
Museums of Morocco,” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature No. 49 (Fall 2001): 155-174.
- Getty Foundation Summer Institute Fellowship in Istanbul on “Constructing the Past in the Middle East” (2006)
