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  • Lucie Knight

    Director of the Arabic Language Program
    Adjunct Assistant Professor of French
    717-358-4740
    Office: GOE-101

    Education

    B.A. Miami University

    M.A. Miami University 

    Ph.D. Emory University

    Research Interests

    Language, identity, violence and representations of women in contemporary North African Literature.  

    Language courses and foreign language acquisition in French and Arabic. 

    Publications

    Knight, L. Violent Beginnings: Literary Representations of Postcolonial Algeria.  Lexington Books (in review).

    Knight, L.  “Friends without benefits: Mustapha Benfodil’s new generation of harkis in Algeria”.  Expressions Maghrébines (in review).

    Knight, L.  “Algerian Women at War: from Independence to Civil War” in Beyond the Body: Migrating Past Borders in Feminist Literature.  Brooks, Kinitra and Glenda Tibe Bonifacio, Eds. (in review).

    Knight, L. “Writing Wrongs: the Representation of ‘Harkis’ in Yasmina Khadra’s La part du mort.” French Forum. 36.2-3 (2011): 163-179. 


    Presentations


    Haight, C., Knight, L., Herron, C.  “Discovering Francophone Culture with Oh la la...quelle aventure!”.  Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), Atlanta, GA.  March 2012.

    Knight, L.  “Friends without benefits: Mustapha Benfodil’s new generation of Harkis in Algeria”.  Franco-Maghrebi Crossings, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.  November 2011.  

    Knight, L. “Writing the nation to come: representations of the Algerian family in civil war narratives”.  North East Modern Language Association (NEMLA), New Brunswick, NJ. April 2011.

    Knight, L., Haight, C.  “Oh la la…quelle aventure: Discovering Basic French”.  Northeast Association for Language Learning Technology (NEALLT), Philadelphia, PA.  April 2011.

    Knight, L., Haight, C. Herron, C. Piot, S. “ Guided Inductive Grammar Lessons in FL Classrooms". Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT), Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  March 2011.  

      

    Course Information

    Arabic 101 Beginning Arabic I

    Arabic 102 Beginning Arabic II

    Arabic 201 Intermediate Arabic I

    Arabic 202 Intermediate Arabic II

    Arabic 371 Advanced Arabic I

    French 201 Intermediate French I

    French 202 Intermediate French II

    French 370 Behind the Veil

    French 371 L'Exil et l'Identite au feminin

    French 374 Reading French Texts