I am currently Teaching Fellow in French and Comparative Literature and Culture in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, I was educated at the University of Oran, Algeria and the University of Leeds, where I gained my PhD in the School of English. My main area of research is on postcolonial and comparative literatures and cultures with a particular focus on the intersection of race and gender.
I have worked on South African women’s writing during the years of apartheid as well as on migrant literature in France and in Canada. I also have an interest in psychotherapeutic discourse (particularly the work of Carl Rogers and Frantz Fanon). My publications include Problématiques identitaires et discours de l’exil dans les littératures francophones (Ottawa University Press, 2007), Gender and Identity (Oxford University Press, 2013) and a special issue of Dalhousie French Studies on ‘Women from the Maghreb’ (2014) as well as book chapters and journal articles on various aspects of the intersection of postcolonial and gender discourses as reflected in literature and cinema. My current project is a study of the literature by Algerian-Canadian women writers.
Teaching 2019-2020
- FR1112: The Individual and Society: Key Works (Balzac, Mauriac, Camus, Sebbar)
- FR2102: Writing Romance and Desire (de La Fayette, Flaubert, Proust, Duras)
- ML2205: A Special Subject in the Novel: Transgressions (Zola, Forster, Robbe-Grillet, Atwood, Gordimer)
- LA1000 Cultural Encounters (Theoretical Encounters)
- FR2009 French Language Practice (Written)
- FR2009 French Language Practice (Practice)
- FR1702 French Language Practice (Oral)
Teaching awards
College Certificate of Commendation for case study ‘Redesigning a second-year French language course to include and empower students with diverse learning abilities’ (Royal Holloway, University of London, June 2020)
Publications
Authored Book
Whitehead, Stephen, Anissa Talahite and Roy Moodley. Gender and Identity: New Directions. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edited Books
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa, ed. Problématiques identitaires et discours de l’exil dans les littératures francophones. Ottawa: Ottawa University Press, 2007.
Moodley, Roy, Colin Lago and Anissa Talahite, eds. Carl Rogers Counsels a Black Client: Race and Culture in Person-Centred Counselling. Ross-on-Wye, U.K.: PCCS Books, 2004.
Edited Special Issue of Journal
Jones, Christa and Anissa Talahite-Moodley, ed. “Women from the Maghreb: Looking Back and Moving Forward.” Dalhousie French Studies: Special issue 103 (2014): 1-140.
Refereed Journal Articles
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “Re-configuring Masculinity in Merzak Allouache’s Omar Gatlato.” CELAAN : Review of the Center for the Study of the Literatures and Arts of North Africa 14.2 & 3 (2017): 61-78.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “ ‘J’aime que mes bagages soient de plumes et de papier’: voyage et écriture dans L’Amour au temps des mimosas de Nadia Ghalem.” Nouvelles Etudes Francophones 31.2 (2016): 124-136.
Jones, Christa and Anissa Talahite-Moodley, ed. “Introduction: Women from the Maghreb: Looking Back and Moving Forward.” Dalhousie French Studies: Special issue 103 (2014): 3-8.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. « Djemila Benhabib à contre-courant du multiculturalisme bien-pensant. » Dalhousie French Studies : Special issue 103 (2014): 85-94.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “Listening to Ralph Ellison’s Music: Farida Belghoul and the question of invisibility” International Journal of Francophone Studies 12.1&2 (2009): 305-319.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. « Deux romans de la rupture et du renouvellement : Le Marteau pique-cœur de Azouz Begag et Le Dromadaire de Bonaparte de Tassadit Imache. » Expressions Maghrébines 7.1 (2008), 177-192.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa and Claude Gonfond, « Dialogisme et Réflexion sur L’Écriture dans Cantique des Plaines de Nancy Huston. » Studies in Canadian Literature 32.1 (2007): 106-119.
Talahite, Anissa. “Cape Gooseberries and Giant Cauliflowers: Transplantation, Hybridity and Growth in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 38.4 (2005): 141-156.
Talahite, Anissa. “Representing the Invisible: Constructions of the Margin in Farida Belghoul’s Georgette! and Tassadit Imache’s Une Fille sans histoire.” AUMLA (The Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association) 93 (2000): 67-81. Talahite, Anissa. “Odalisque et Pacotille: Identity and Representation in Leila Sebbar’s Shérazade, 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts.” Nottingham French Studies 37.2 (1998): 62-72.
Talahite, Anissa. “An Interview with the South African Novelist Lauretta Ngcobo.” Journal of Gender Studies 1.3 (1992): 315 -323.
Book Chapters
Talahite, Anissa. “Cape Gooseberries and Giant Cauliflowers: Transplantation, Hybridity, and Growth in Bessie Head's A Question of Power.” Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Lawrence J. Trudeau. Farmington Hills, Mich: Gale, Cengage, 2017, 192-200.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “Lessons from Shahrazad: Teaching about Cultural Dialogism.” New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales. Eds. Christa Jones and Claudia Schwabe. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2016, 113-129.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. « J comme Jeunes. », Abécédaire insolite des francophonies Ed. Christiane Chaulet-Achour and Brigitte Riera. Bordeaux : Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux II, 2012, 219-228.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. « Rupture et créativité chez les romancières sud-africaines », Le Féminin des écrivaines, Ed. Christiane Chaulet-Achour and Françoise Moulin-Civil. Amiens : Encrage, 2010, 207-220.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. « Les Deux pieds dans le ciment : deuil et surplus identitaire dans le marteau pique-cœur de Azouz Begag. » Problématiques identitaires et discours de l’exil dans Les littératures francophones. Ed. Anissa Talahite-Moodley. Ottawa: Ottawa University Press, 2007, 151-172.
Talahite, Anissa. “North African Writing.” African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, Ed. Tejumola Olaniyan and Ato Quayson. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007, 38-45.
Talahite, Anissa and Roy Moodley. “Therapist’s Faces, Client’s Masks: Racial Enactment Through Pain, Anger and Hurt.” Carl Rogers Counsels a Black Client: Race and Culture in Person-Centred Counselling. Ed. Roy Moodley, Colin Lago and Anissa Talahite. Ross-on-Wye, UK: PCCS Books, 2004, 213-227. Talahite, Anissa. “Identity as a ‘Secret de Guerre’: Rewriting Ethnicity and Culture in ‘Beur’ Literature.” Cultures transnationales de France: Des “Beurs” aux ...?. Ed. Hafid Gafaiti. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001, 55-72.
Talahite, Anissa. “Voyages à travers l’altérité: Discours féministe et anti-raciste dans Ils disent que je suis une beurette... de Soraya Nini.” Littératures Francophones: La Problématique de l’Altérité. Ed. Christine O’Dowd-Smyth. Waterford: Waterford Institute of Technology, 2001, 70-82.
Talahite, Anissa. “Constructing Spaces of Transitions: ‘Beur’ Women Writers and the Question of Representation.” Women, Identities and Immigration in France. Ed. Carrie Tarr and Jane Freedman. Oxford: Berg, 2000, 103-119.
Talahite, Anissa. “North African Writing.” Writing and Africa. Ed. Mphalive Msiska and Paul Hyland. London: Longman Publishers, 1997, 13-30.
Book Reviews
Talahite, Anissa. “Sable Rouge, A. Djemai.” Bulletin of Francophone Africa 11 (1997), 113-114.
Talahite, Anissa. “Men, Women and Gods, Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics by F. Malti-Douglas.” Journal of Gender Studies 6.3 (Autumn 1997) 331-332.
Talahite, Anissa. “ ‘Woman’ under Apartheid.” The Southern African Review of Books (September-October 1990) 8-9.
Conference Proceedings
Talahite, Anissa. “Writing the Self: A Study of Identity and Representation in Contemporary South African Women’s Literature.” Proceedings of the Research in Progress Annual Conference. York (UK): University of York Centre for Southern African, 1990.
Talahite, Anissa. “The Politics of Representation in Bessie Head’s A Question of Power” Proceedings of the Research in Progress Annual Conference, York (UK): University of York Centre for Southern African Studies, 1989.
Encyclopedia Entries
Talahite, Anissa. Entries: on Leïla Abou Zayd, Salim Aissa, Malek Alloula, Djamal Amrani, Reida Bensmaia, Nouzha Fassi, Leila Houari and Jean Sénac, in Encyclopedia of African Literature. Ed. Simon Gikandi. London: Routledge, 2003.
Translation
Translation from English into French of Saskia Sassen’s « Mondialisation et géographie globale du travail » in Le Sexe de la mondialisation : Genre, classe, race et nouvelle division du travail. Ed. Jules Falquet et al.. Paris : Presses de Sciences Politiques, 2010.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS
“Literature and Diasporisation: The case of Nadia Ghalem” SMLLC (School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures), Royal Holloway, University of London, 27 February 2019.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “Race and the Question of Autobiographical Authenticity.” Paper presented at the conference Writing Herself in the World: Women’s Autobiography and Relationship to the World, University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre, 14-15 October 2016.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “Repenser l’altérité avec Nadine Gordimer.” Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on “Anti-colonial Struggle: Discourse, Representation and Reception”, University of Oran, Algeria, May 12-13, 2015.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “Gendered Diasporic Spaces in Nadia Ghalem’s Fiction.”
Paper presented at the neMLA conference, Toronto, 2 May 2015.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “Women’s Bodies as the “Abject” and the Quest for Well-Being.” Paper presented at the 28th International Congress of Applied Psychology, Paris, 9 July 2014.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “Frantz Fanon and the Algerian Revolution.” Paper presented at the Black Perspectives in Counselling, Psychology and Psychotherapy Conference, OISE/University of Toronto, 5 June 2014.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. ‘Gender, Ethnicity and the Question of Autobiographical Authenticity’, Department of English, Christ University, Bangalore, India, 4 January 2012.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. ‘Questions identitaires en Francophonie’ Department of French, Christ University, Bangalore, India, 5 January 2012.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. « Les littératures francophones comme observatoire des métissages culturels », Institut d’Études Pédagogiques de l’Ontario (IEPO), University of Toronto, 7 December 2010.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. « Romancières d’Afrique du Sud aux frontières des représentations », Centre d’Études Féminines et d’Études de Genre, University of Paris VIII, 6 April 2009.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “Exile and Belonging in the Novels of Bessie Head and Tassadit Imache”, Centre for African Literary Studies, University of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, invited lecture, 14 November 2008.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “Le Deuil d’une écriture : la littérature ‘beur’ et ses transformations.”, MacMaster University, invited lecture, 26 October 2006.
Talahite-Moodley, Anissa. “Au-delà du récit autobiographique: Tassadit Imache et le flou identitaire.” Paper presented at the (One’s) History in Fiction: 49th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, October 12-14, 2006 at the University of Winnipeg.
Talahite, Anissa. “Representing Otherness: Marginality and the Desire to Return to the Primal Space in Tassadit Imache’s novel Je veux rentrer.” Paper presented at the Migration Research Cluster at the University of Manchester, UK, December 2001.
Talahite, Anissa. “Secret Identities, Migration and ‘Beur’ Writing.” Paper presented at the Symposium on ‘Migrations and Minorities’, University of Manchester, UK, May 2000.
Talahite, Anissa. “Voyages à travers l’altérité.” Paper presented at the conference on ‘Littératures Francophones: La Problématique de l’Altérité’, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Republic of Ireland, March 1999
Talahite, Anissa. “Representing the Invisible: Constructions of the Margin in Farida Belghoul’s Georgette! and Tassadit Imache’s Une Fille sans histoire.” Paper presented at the ‘Women and Ethnicities in France’ conference, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London, UK, November 1998.
Talahite, Anissa. “Hybridity and Gender: Fiction by Women of North African Descent in France.” Paper presented at the Border Crossings Conference, University of North London, UK, January 1996.
Talahite, Anissa. “L’Écriture du double dans l’oeuvre de Leila Sebbar” Paper presented at ASCALF (Association for the Study of Caribbean and African Literatures in French) Annual Conference, Institut Français, London, UK, November 1995.
Talahite, Anissa. “Race and Gender Barriers in Higher Education” Paper presented at the Second National Black Access to Higher Education Conference, University of Sheffield, UK, June 1995.
Talahite, Anissa. “The Question of Voice in the Writing by South African Women Novelists”, Paper presented at the DSA Women and Development Study Group Annual Conference, Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, University of York, UK, May 1991.
