Anne Donadey, Ph.D.
Professor, French
Comparative International Studies
French Program Director
also in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
College of Arts and Letters
SDSU
Bio
Anne Donadey is Professor of French and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is the author of two single-authored books, The Algerian War in Film Fifty Years Later, 2004-2012 (2020) and a book on Assia Djebar and Leïla Sebbar (two women writers from Algeria), Recasting Postcolonialism: Women Writing between Worlds (2001). She has edited or co-edited four volumes: Représentations de la guerre d’indépendance algérienne (2019); Approaches to Teaching the Works of Assia Djebar (2017); Women in Culture: An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women’s Studies (2017, 2nd edition); and Postcolonial Theory and Francophone Literary Studies (2005). She has also edited or co-edited two special issues of journals, L’Esprit créateur on the works of Assia Djebar (2008) and Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature on empire and occupation in France and the Francophone world (1999). She has published over thirty articles and book chapters on representations of the Algerian war in literature and film, on anti-racist perspectives in Women’s Studies and French cultural studies, and on the works of Rachid Bouchareb, Moufida Tlatli, Fatima Mernissi, Chibundu Onuzo, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Maryse Condé, Daniel Maximin, Azar Nafisi, Viola Ardone, Octavia E. Butler, bell hooks, and Gloria Anzaldúa. Her articles have appeared in journals such as PMLA, Signs, Research in African Literatures, College Literature, and Studies in French Cinema.
Areas of Specialization
Contemporary Francophone North African women writers, contemporary Black women writers, intersectional feminist thought, colonialism, race and gender in literature and film
Courses
Recent courses taught
- FRENC 422 Contemporary France
- AFRAS/FRENC 465 Africa in Literature and Film
- WMNST 590 Feminist Thought
- WMNST 601 Foundations of Feminist Scholarship
- WMNST 603 Advanced Feminist Theory
Publications
Recent articles
“‘Go Back to Learn’: Race, Identity, and Interpretation in Chibundu Onuzo’s Sankofa.” Research in African Literatures 54.2 (Summer 2024): 1-20. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2979/ral.00001
“Choice and Solidarity in Viola Ardone’s Oliva Denaro.” Forum Italicum 57.3 (November 2023): 927–37. https://doi.org/10.1177/00145858231189460
“Rachid Bouchareb’s Ethical Cinema: Louisette and Annie, Two Women in the Algerian War of Independence.” Modern & Contemporary France 31.1 (March 2023): 75-89.
“bell hooks’s Memoirs.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color 11 (January 2023), n.p.