Caroline Zekri

Caroline Zekri is a Lecturer in Italian and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), affiliated with the IMAGER research laboratory (Institute of the English-speaking, Germanic and Romance Worlds). She coordinates the MEED research seminar (Mediterranean, Eurocentrism, Decolonial Epistemologies) within the CREER group and serves as Treasurer of IMAGER.

Her research integrates humanities and social sciences to examine language-politics intersections in contemporary Mediterranean contexts, with core themes:

• Vocabulary of migrations across social fields
• Narration/counter-narration of migratory experiences
• Italy as Mediterranean border state and EU migration laboratory
• Literary representations of exile, war, and global capitalist violence
• Decolonial epistemologies in migration discourse

From 2017-2019, she organized six international study days on migration vocabulary, culminating in planned publications. Her scholarly output (2011-2019) reveals consistent focus on decolonizing migration narratives, analyzing how terminology like 'migrant' and 'refugee' reinforces national-colonial orders, while exploring literary forms (epistolary writing, aphorism) as political tools.

She serves on editorial boards for Quaderna (co-managing the 'CREATION' section) and Cahiers d'Italies, and provides expertise for Revista Internacional de Estudios Migratorios. No information is available regarding doctoral supervision or research grants. Current work continues through the MEED seminar, examining Eurocentrism and decolonial approaches in Mediterranean studies.