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Jill Jarvis is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of French at Yale University, currently serving as Director of Graduate Studies (DGS). She holds a PhD from Princeton University (2016) and additional degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and Whitman College. Her research focuses on the aesthetics and politics of North Africa, particularly decolonization processes, literary testimony, and Saharan cultural geographies. She is the author of Decolonizing Memory: Algeria and the Politics of Testimony (2021) and co-editor of a special issue on postcolonial Maghreb studies.
Her teaching emphasizes questioning area studies methodologies, offering courses like Imaginary Maps: World Literature & French Empire and Decolonizing Memory. Affiliations include the Council on Middle East Studies and the Council on African Studies. Jarvis has been awarded the Ralph Cohen Prize (2014) for her work on Agamben's silence in political theory.
Her scholarship bridges literature and activism, analyzing juridical texts, fiction, and theoretical frameworks to explore unfinished decolonization. Recent work explores the Sahara as a site of transnational exchange, challenging disciplinary boundaries in African studies. No grants or lab affiliations are explicitly listed in the provided materials.
