Bernard Aresu, University of Washington. Modern/Postmodern Narratives, The Lyrical Genre, Postcolonial Studies, Comparative Studies. Office: RH 214 Office Hours: T/Th 1:15-2:30 by appointment Phone: 713-348-4857 E-mail: bca@ruf.rice.edu Spring 2008 Courses: FREN 462/562 - Evolution of the Lyric from the Renaissance to the Present Representative Publications: "Arcanes algériens entés d'ajours helléniques: Le chien d'Ulysse, de Salim Bachi," in: Echanges et mutations des modèles littéraires entre l'Europe et l'Algérie (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2004). Configurations of Memory in Postcolonial Narratives, Guest Editor, L'esprit créateur, XLIII, 1 (spring 2003). Tahar Ben Jelloun, CELFAN Monographs, Tulane, 1998. Counterhegemonic Discourse from the Maghreb: The Poetics of Kateb's Fiction, Gunter Narr Verlag ("Études littéraires françaises," no. 53), 1993. Kateb Yacine's Nedjma, (trans. Richard Howard) a critical introduction, University Press of Virginia, 1991. "Translations of the Orient," guest-edition, Substance 69, December 1992. Articles on Baudelaire, Faulkner, Simon, Khatibi, Djebar. Current Research Projects: Historical and critical reassessment of North African literature since the 2nd World War. On the practice and representation of dissidence in contemporary literature and the arts. Translation of Kateb Yacine's theatre.