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Imane Terhmina is an Assistant Professor of Francophone Studies in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. She holds a PhD in French Literature from Yale University. Her research lies at the intersection of aesthetics, ethics, and politics, with specific areas of specialization including Francophone African literature and culture, postcolonial theory, affect theory, political philosophy, petrofictions/eco-topias, and Afropolitanism. Prof. Terhmina’s work broadly explores conceptions of Africanness and critically interrogates the relationship between Sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb. Her book manuscript traces the ways Francophone literature and film from North, West, and Central Africa articulate mythopoetics of bureaucracy, demonstrating how staging bureaucratic encounters can individualize and allegorize the relationship between the state and civil society, illuminating procedural injustices tied to broader political and ethical issues such as immigration, competing conceptions of legal rights and citizenship, and ecological anxieties. Ultimately, her research seeks to show how African experimental fiction intimates alternative political imaginaries and examines African literary and artistic works through the lens of petromodernity.
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