Dr. Mustapha Hamil

Biography

Mustapha Hamil is a Moroccan-born scholar with an established academic career spanning Victorian literature, postcolonial studies, and Francophone Arabic literatures and cultures. His intellectual journey began in France, where he earned a Doctorat de 3ème Cycle in Victorian Literature from the University of Stendhal in Grenoble in 1986. After returning to Morocco in 1987, he taught English and Anglophone literature at Cadi Ayyad University Marrakech until 1994. His interest in postcolonial Anglophone studies took him to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar at Duke University from 1994 to 1996, and later to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2000. His dissertation focused on hybridity and identity in the Moroccan postcolonial novel. Hamil began his career as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois in 2001 and joined the University of West Georgia as an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Literature from 2001 to 2007. At the University of Windsor since 2007, he currently teaches various courses in Comparative Literature and has been recognized for his dedication to teaching with the Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009. His research interests encompass Postcolonial theory, Francophone Maghrebi literature, immigration literature, Arabic literature translation, and Arab cinema.

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