Julin Everett,
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies; Chair, Department of French and Francophone Studies
Biography
Julin Everett is a first-generation American. She was a first-generation college student during her undergraduate studies in Classical Music at Boston University. She holds a Ph.D. in Francophone Studies from UCLA. Dr. Everett responds to the pronouns she and her.
Academic History
Ph.D. in Francophone Studies, UCLA
B.A. Magna Cum Laude in Classical Singing, Boston University
Academic Focus
French and Francophone Studies
Visual Studies
Postcolonial Studies
Shoah Studies
Queer Studies
Interests
Sci-fi
Dogs
Gardening
Roadtrips
Courses Taught
FRENCH 44 - Advanced French
CORE 1
Selected Research and Publications
BOOK
Le Queer Imp茅rial: Male Homoerotic Desire in Francophone Colonial and Postcolonial Literature. Rodopi-Brill, 2018.
INSTALLATION
Scene/Unseen. Public Installation on Portraits of Jews Wearing the Yellow Star. At Ursinus College, with Cari Freno. Aug. 2017-Jan 2018.
ARTICLES
鈥淪urvivantes vivantes du genocide rwandais: Un Entretien avec L茅o Kalinda, r茅alisateur de M猫res Courages鈥� Nouvelles 脡ditions Francophones, Fall 2018.
鈥淭he Textual Ceremony: Writing against Trauma in Calixthe Beyela鈥檚 La Petite fille du r茅verb猫re鈥� co-authored with Katerina Dee The French Review, 91.2 (December 2017).
鈥淢ust la Victime Be Feminine? Postcolonial Violence, Gender Ambiguity and Homoerotic Desire in Sony Labou Tansi鈥檚 Je soussign茅 cardiaque.鈥� RAL 44.1 (Spring 2013).
鈥淭he Postcolonial Orphan鈥檚 Autobiography: Authoring the Self in Jamaica Kincaid鈥檚 Mr. Potter and Calixthe Beyala鈥檚 La petite fille du r茅verb猫re鈥� College Literature 36.3, 2009.
TRANSLATIONS
Translation of 鈥淟es banlieues du politique: Des luttes des h茅ritiers de l鈥檌mmigration postcoloniale en France鈥� by Ahmed Boubeker. In French Cultural Studies Dominic Thomas, ed., 24.2 (May 2013).
Translation of 鈥淐r茅olisation鈥� by Dominique Chanc茅. The Creolization of Theory. Fran莽oise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, eds. Duke University Press, 2011.
Translation of excerpts of "L'Europe et les Antilles: Une interview d'Edouard Glissant" by Andrea Scwieger-Hiepko. The Creolization of Theory. Fran莽oise Lionnet and Shu-mei Shih, eds. Duke University Press, 2011.
Awards and Honors
Lloyd Jones Award for Excellence in Advising and Mentoring, Ursinus College, 2018.
Research Award for Archival work in Senegal, Appalachian State University, 2012.
Dissertation-Year Fellowship, UCLA, 2009-2010
Alice Belkin Fellowship, UCLA, 2006-2007
Summer Research and Mentorship Fellowship, UCLA 2005, 2006
Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship, UCLA 2004-2005/2007-2008