Naima Hachad

Dr. Naima Hachad serves as Director of the French Program at American University. She holds a PhD in French with a Comparative Literature certificate from Emory University, alongside an MA and BA from Université de Provence in France. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, autobiography, and the representation of violence in Maghreb and Caribbean cultural productions. She teaches courses such as 'Advanced French II' and 'Migration Narratives.' Her notable works include Revisionary Narratives: Moroccan Women’s Auto/Biographical and Testimonial Acts (2019) and an edited special issue on testimony and resistance in Maghrebi cultural productions (2021). Her publications span journals like The Journal of North African Studies and Small Axe.

Her scholarship critically engages with themes of memory, identity, and political resistance, often analyzing intersections between literature, art, and socio-political contexts. Recent work explores Moroccan transitional justice through narrative forms and examines feminist visual culture in North Africa and the Caribbean.