Francophone literature and cultures are among Brigitte Hamon-Porter鈥檚 particular interests. Her recent research and writing focus on literature that has emerged during political upheaval in French-speaking nations in north Africa.

She teaches courses in French language, history and culture, and the senior seminar The Francophone Experience, which focuses in different years on various French-speaking regions and nations, such as the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, Lebanon, Vietnam or the Caribbean, and explores cultural issues such as decolonization, the changing role of women and issues of identity. She has taught First Year Seminars on Africa and the Arab Spring, and team-taught in the Phelps Scholars Program.

Dr. Hamon-Porter joined the 快猫短视频 faculty in 1994, and chaired the Department of Modern and Classical Languages from 2015 to 2019.

Education

• Ph.D., French literature, Indiana University, 1996
• M.A., French literature, Indiana University, 1992
• Ma卯trise d鈥橦istoire, Universit茅 de Nantes, 1987

Areas of Expertise

• French-speaking literature and culture
• North African cultures and literatures
• Contemporary Pacific cultures and literatures
• Seventeenth-century novelists

Grants, Honors and Awards

• 鈥淭he Literature of Overseas Territories,鈥� Great Lakes Colleges Association New Directions Initiative grant for research at the Archives Nationales d鈥橭utre-Mer, Aix-en-Provence, 2011
• 鈥淔rench Novelists of the Seventeenth Century鈥� 快猫短视频 summer research grant, 2003

Selected Publications and Presentations

• 鈥淩ewriting the Past and Molding the Future in the Children鈥檚 Books of Veronique Tadjo鈥� presentation at the NeMLA annual conference in Boston, 2020
• 鈥淢apping the Tunisian Uprising in Tahar Ben Jelloun鈥檚 Par le feuand Leyla Bouzid鈥檚 脌 peine j鈥檕uvre les yeux,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The French Review, 2019 
• 鈥淵asmina Khadra鈥檚 Roman Noirand The Algerian Civil War,鈥� presentation at Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual conference in Washington, D.C., 2019
• 鈥淭he Tunisian Revolution through Eyes Wide Open,鈥� presentation at NeMLA annual conference in Pittsburgh, 2018
• 鈥淟别蝉&苍产蝉辫;Ann茅es de plomben Alg茅rie: T茅moignages et R茅demption,鈥� presentation at NeMLA annual conference in Baltimore, 2017
• 鈥淔rom Lost Eden to Changed World: The Land Migrants Left Behind in Sembene鈥檚 and Sissako's Films,鈥� presentation at NeMLA annual conference, 2016
• 鈥淟es Aventures de Dassoucy: d茅fense et nouvelle illustration de la langue burlesque,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, 2005

Outside the College

In her free time, Dr. Hamon-Porter likes to travel with her husband and two sons (recent Hope graduates), brush up on her German and Spanish, learn new languages, read, walk, bike and swim.