Presentations

1: Cruel Optimism and Queer Failure in Abdellah Taïa’s Salvation Army

Siham Bouamer, Sam Houston State U

2: Migration and Performative Return in Abdellah Taïa’s Writings

Thomas Muzart, Graduate Center, City U of New York

3: Sufism, the Transsexual, and the Notion of the Human in Abdellah Taïa’s Work

Philippe Panizzon, U of Oxford

4: Catching Feelings: Transformation, Exchange, and Expression of Affect in Abdellah Taïa’s Celui qui est digne d’être aimé

Ryan Schroth, Eastern Illinois U

Presider

Denis M. Provencher, U of Arizona