Keziah Poole

Dr. Keziah Poole is a Lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Santa Clara University's College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a doctorate from the University of Southern California's Comparative Literature Department, specializing in queer and feminist writing from Francophone North Africa. Her research examines how marginalized voices resist co-optation by nationalist discourses through literature and film.

• Teaches courses on French language/culture, visual politics in Francophone contexts, and global prison writing.
• Founder/Director of The Readers' Circle, a prison writing program connecting incarcerated authors with university volunteers.
• Publications focus on intersections of decolonial theory, carceral state critique, and Francophone cultural production.

Her pedagogy emphasizes language learning as a site of social/political engagement. Recent scholarship bridges prison education, queer studies, and postcolonial theory.