Mustapha Hamil

Dr. Mustapha Hamil serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures within the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Windsor, a position he has held since 2007 following prior appointments as Assistant Professor at the University of West Georgia (2001-2007) and Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois (2001).

His academic credentials include:

• Doctorat de 3ème Cycle in Victorian Literature (1986), University of Stendhal, Grenoble, France
• Ph.D. (2000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Dr. Hamil's research centers on Postcolonial theory with emphases on Hybridity, Identity, and Exile, critically examining Francophone Maghrebi literature, Immigration Literature, Arabic literature in translation, and Arab cinema through frameworks of cultural ambivalence and transnational migration. His scholarship consistently interrogates representations of terrorism, border politics, and hybrid identities in North African and Arab cultural production.

His publication trajectory (2012-2023) reveals sustained engagement with cinematic and literary responses to terrorism and migration, particularly analyzing works by Nabil Ayouch, Abdelkebir Khatibi, and Mahi Binebine across Maghrebi and Middle Eastern contexts, with increasing focus on gendered dimensions of clandestine emigration and post-9/11 geopolitical narratives.

His teaching excellence was formally recognized through:

• Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence (2009), University of Windsor (awarded by OPUS)