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Associate Professor Amy Hubbell at the School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland, specializes in Francophone autobiographies of exile and trauma, with a focus on Algerian War narratives and Pied-Noir identity. She is author of Hoarding Memory: Covering the Wounds of the Algerian War (2020) and co-editor of Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context (2020).
- Academic focus areas: Trauma studies, postcolonial literature, memory theory
- Key research questions: How trauma narratives negotiate bodily transformation, how food sustains colonial memory, and how visual art layers painful pasts
Her research explores Algerian War trauma through autobiographical hoarding, visual art layering, and survivor narratives. Recent work analyzes Hélène Cixous' environmental metaphors and Algerian migrant worker representations.
Recent publications show thematic clusters in:
- Algerian War memory (2018-2024)
- French-Algerian cultural intersections (2015-2020)
- Disability and embodiment (2019-2020)
- Colonial memory visualization (2016-2018)
She supervises PhD projects on transgenerational trauma, postcolonial identity, and translation studies. Current project: Terrorism Testimony: French Narratives of Survival.
