Laura Loth joined the faculty of the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at 星空无限传媒 College in 2009. Her current research and teaching interests are in contemporary Francophone literature, particularly Caribbean literatures and their intersection with postcolonial environmental studies and questions of environmental justice. Her other areas of interest and expertise are 19th-century French colonial studies, gender studies, visual studies, North African Literature, and immigration literature in the Francophone world. An avid student of French Cinema, she received a grant from the Ministry of French Culture鈥檚 French American Cultural Exchange Program to bring the Tourn茅es French Film festival to Memphis from 2012-2016. She is a strong supporter of study abroad and has led study abroad programs to France, Morocco, and Martinique.
Professor Loth contributes courses to the Search, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Film Studies, Environmental Studies, and Africana Studies programs at 星空无限传媒. She is a co-director of the Global 星空无限传媒 Internationalization Steering Committee.
Prof. Loth is an avid fan of podcasts in English and in French, and you can catch her on WKNO 91.1 FM every Monday for her own very short podcast, 鈥淪potlight on Lifelong Learning.鈥
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
鈥淕isele Pineau鈥檚 Poetics of Disaster: Trauma and Disability in Folie, Aller simple.鈥 Special Issue on Disability, Mental Health, and Disablement. Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 2020
鈥溾橳he Natural Elements Unchained鈥: Trauma, Disability, and Gis猫le Pineau鈥檚 Poetics of Disaster.鈥 Special Dossier: Women Writing Disaster in the French-speaking World. Women in French Studies 27 (2019)
鈥淲riting and Traveling in Colonial Algeria after Isabelle Eberhardt: Henriette Celari茅鈥檚 French (Cross) Dressing.鈥 Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature. 36.1 (Spring 2017).
鈥淭raumatic Landscapes: Earthquakes and Identity in Franco-Algerian Fiction by Maissa Bey and Nina Bouraoui,鈥 Research in African Literatures. 43.1 (Spring 2016).
鈥(Re)Writing the Ruins: Yanick Lahens鈥檚 Post-Earthquake Narrative Revisions,鈥 Women in French. (Nov/Dec 2015).
鈥淭he Dynamics of Natural Disasters in Two Novels by Gis猫le Pineau: Re-thinking Caribbean Communities.鈥 Contemporary Caribbean Dynamics: Re-configuring Caribbean Culture. Eds. Savrina Chinien and Beatrice Boufoy-Bastick. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers, 2015.
鈥淛ourneying Identities: Nineteenth-Century Women鈥檚 Travel Writing in French Colonial Algeria.鈥 Symposium 63.2 (Summer 2009): 107-126.
"Epigraph-Effect/Eberhardt-Effect: The Death of Legend in Malika Mokeddem鈥檚 Le si猫cle des sauterelles.鈥 Expressions maghr茅bines 4.1 (Summer 2005): 125-141.
SELECTED SCHOLARLY LECTURES
鈥淧ast Disasters and Future Survivors: Narratives of Saint-Pierre in the face of Climate Change,鈥 Winthop King Institute, Tallahassee, FL, February 2020
鈥淭he Myth of Cyparis: 21st-Century Tales of Embodied Resistance from the 1902 Eruption of Martinique鈥檚 Montagne Pel茅e,鈥 Twentieth and Twenty first Century French and Francophone Studies, March 2019
鈥溾橪es 茅l茅ments naturels d茅cha卯n茅s鈥 : Gis猫le Pineau et la po茅tique du d茅sastre," Conseil International des Etudes Francophones (CIEF), Fort de France, Martinique, June 2017
鈥淒ressing French: Writing and Traveling in Colonial Algeria after Isabelle Eberhardt,鈥 Western Society for French History (WSFH), Chicago, IL, November 2015
鈥(Re)Writing the Ruins: Dany Laferri猫re鈥檚 Post-Earthquake Narrative Revisions,鈥 Caribbean Studies Association (CSA), New Orleans, LA, 2015
鈥Writing the Disaster: Yanick Lahens鈥檚 Failles and Haiti鈥檚 Post-Earthquake Literature,鈥 South Central Modern Languages Association (SCMLA), Austin, TX, 2014