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Alina Cherry is an Associate Professor of French at Wayne State University’s Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. She serves as Associate Director of the Humanities Center and specializes in contemporary French and Francophone literatures, focusing on narrative temporality, spatial dynamics, and catastrophe studies. Her research examines how literature engages with historical trauma and urban spaces through innovative stylistic techniques.
Education: PhD (with honors) in French from New York University (2008), MA in French from NYU, and BA summa cum laude in French from Georgia State University (2001).
Research Interests:
- Claude Simon’s experimental narrative
- Postcolonial spatial discourse
- Disaster media representation
- Intermediality between text and visual arts
Recent publications include her monograph *Claude Simon: Fashioning the Past by Writing the Present* (2016) and peer-reviewed articles in *The French Review* and *Contemporary French and Francophone Studies*. She has received prestigious awards including the Career Development Chair (2019-2020) and multiple Humanities Center Fellowships.
Teaching: Courses include postmodern literature seminars, film-based language instruction, and sociocultural analysis workshops. Upcoming courses in 2024-25 focus on modernity and extreme contemporaneity in French literature.
