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Alison Rice is a Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. She holds concurrent faculty positions in Gender Studies and is a Faculty Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Her research focuses on 20th- and 21st-century Francophone literature, with specialties in postcolonial theory, immigrant literature, women’s international human rights, and cultural memory. Rice has authored three major books including Worldwide Women Writers in Paris: Francophone Metronomes (2021) and Polygraphies: Francophone Women Writing Algeria (2012), and has edited volumes on transnationalism and migration. She has held roles such as Director of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts and William M. Scholl Chair. Her work bridges literary analysis with cultural and geopolitical contexts, examining how Francophone writers negotiate identity, displacement, and globalization. Her publications span over 150 articles, chapters, and reviews, reflecting her interdisciplinary engagement with gender, migration, and peace studies.
Education: PhD in French and Francophone Studies (UCLA, 2003), MA in French (UCLA, 1999), BA in English, French, and History (La Sierra University, 1996). Professional activities include organizing international conferences, guest lectures on North African cinema, and mentoring over 30 graduate and undergraduate students. Rice’s teaching includes courses on postcolonial Paris, transnational Francophone cinema, and global women’s writing in French. Her research emphasizes the intersection of literature with human rights and peacebuilding, particularly through the lens of marginalized voices and diasporic experiences.
