Chadia Chambers-Samadi

Chadia Chambers-Samadi, Ph.D., is a Senior Lecturer at Hawaii Pacific University's College of Liberal Arts, Department of English and Applied Linguistics. She teaches First Year Writing, World Literature, and French courses. Her research focuses on memory studies, postcolonial literature, and Francophone cultures, with a particular emphasis on Algeria, Haiti, and Mauritius.

Her major work includes Repression des manifestants algériens à Paris: la nuit meurtrière du 17 octobre 1961 (2016), analyzing how literature, film, and music preserved the memory of the 1961 Paris massacre of Algerians. She has collaborated with Thomas Spear on the website ile-en-ile.org and edited political essays for Ruptures Editions in Haiti. Her work on Haitian author Jacques Stephen Alexis appears in Arnold Antonin’s documentary Mort Sans Sépulture.

Chambers-Samadi’s writing spans academic scholarship, translations, and cultural criticism. She translated short stories by Katia D. Ulysse and Myriam J.A. Chancy, and reviewed works on French secularism, queer theory, and musicology for academic presses like Oxford University Press and Duke University Press.