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Dr Amy Hubbell

French Discipline
Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
+61 7 336 56890
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Researcher biography

Amy is a specialist in Francophone autobiographies of exile and trauma. She is author of Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, Identity and Exile (U of Nebraska P, 2015), and A la recherche d'un emploi: Business French in a Communicative Context (Hackett, 2017) and co-editor of "Distance/Proximité" (Australian Journal of French Studies, 2016 with Dr Joe Hardwick), "Self and Stuff: Accumulation in Francophone Literature and Art" (Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Literatures, 2014), The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), and Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film and Comic Art in French Autobiography (U of Nebraska P, 2011). She is currently working on her new project, "Hoarding Memory: Covering the Wounds of the Algerian War" and a translation of the trauma testimony in the film La Valise ou le cercueil (the Suitcase or the Coffin) with her students.

Featured projects Duration
Hoarded Memory in Le¿la Sebbar's Life Writing
The University of Queensland
 2013
School strategic research initiative

Publications

Books (2)
Book Chapters (11)
Journal Articles (23)

Books

Hubbell, Amy Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, identity and exile. Nebraska, United States: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.
Hubbell, Amy L. À la recherche d’un emploi: Business French in a communicative context. Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.: Focus Publishing; R. Pullins, 2011.

Book Chapters

Hubbell, Amy (2015). Accumulating Algeria: Recurrent images in Pied-Noir visual works. In Natalie Edwards, Ben McCann and Peter Poiana (Ed.), Framing French Culture (pp. 209-227) Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
Hubbell, Amy (2013). Unspoken Algeria: Transmitting traumatic memories of the Algerian war. In Nevine El Nossery and Amy L. Hubbell (Ed.), The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (pp. 305-324) Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hubbell, Amy (2013). Separation and return in the intellectual work of the Pieds-Noirs. In Christopher Hogarth and Natalie Edwards (Ed.), The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual (pp. 71-92) Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
El Nossery, Névine and Hubbell, Amy (2013). Transmitting the unspeakable through literature and art. In Névine El Nossery and Amy L. Hubbell (Ed.), The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (pp. 1-20) Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2013). The words that say it: Pied-Noir women confronting Algerian memory. In Anna Rocca and Kenneth Reeds (Ed.), Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives (pp. 103-116) Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2011). L'Algerie recurrente et l'Algerie errante dans l'ecriture des Francaises d'Algerie. In Anna Rocca and Névine El Nossery (Ed.), Frictions et devenirs dans les écritures migrantes au féminin: Enracinements et renégociations (pp. 29-47) Saarbrücken, Germany: Éditions Universitaires Européennes.
Edwards, Natalie, Hubbell, Amy L. and Miller, Ann (2011). Introduction: Textual visual selves. In Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell and Amy Miller (Ed.), Textual and visual selves: Photography, film and comic art in French autobiography (pp. 1-15) Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2011). Viewing the past through a ‘nostalgeric’ lens: Pied-Noir photo-documentaries. In Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell and Amy Miller (Ed.), Textual and visual selves: Photography, film and comic art in French autobiography (pp. 167-187) Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Hubbell, Amy (2010). Dual, Divided, and Doubled Selves: Three Women Writing between France and Algeria. In Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth (Ed.), This 'self' which is not one : Women's life writing in French (pp. 35-46) Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hubbell, Amy (2009). Returning to the Baobab fou: (Dis)integrating roots in Ken Bugul’s and Marie Cardinal’s autobiographies. In Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on Ken Bugul: From alternative choices to oppositional practices (pp. 81-99) Trenton, N. J.: Africa World Press.
Hubbell, Amy (2008). Slipping home in Marie Cardinal's Ecoutez la mer. In Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth (Ed.), Gender and Displacement: "Home" in Contemporary Francophone Women's Autobiography (pp. 34-45) Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Journal Articles

Hubbell, Amy (2017) "Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar Germany and France: Comparative Perspectives" Edited by M. Borutta and J. Jansen. EuropeNow, 6: 1-2.
Hardwick, Joe and Hubbell, Amy (2016) Tyrannies of Distance, Perils of Proximity: Time, Space and Virtuality in the French and Francophone World. Australian Journal of French Studies, 53 1-2: 3-18. doi:10.3828/AJFS.2016.01
Hubbell, Amy L. (2015) Filling in the Void: Leila Sebbar's Collective Archaeology of Origins. Expressions Maghrebines, 14 1: 41-54.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2014) Accumulated testimony: layering French girls' diaries on the Algerian exodus. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 38 2: 1-16. doi:10.4148/2334-4415.1011
Edwards, Natalie and Hubbell, Amy L. (2014) Self and stuff: accumulation in Francophone literature and art. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 38 2: 2.1-2.5. doi:10.4148/2334-4415.1813
Hubbell, Amy (2013) (In)edible Algeria: transmitting Pied-Noir nostalgia through food. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 10 2: 1-18.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2013) Reeck, Laura. Writerly identities in Beur fiction and beyond. French Review, 86 5: 1040-1041.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2012) The past is present: Pied-Noir returns to Algeria. Nottingham French Studies, 51 1: 66-77. doi:10.3366/nfs.2012.0007
Hubbell, Amy L. (2011) (Re)turning to ruins: Pied-Noir visual returns to Algeria. Modern and Contemporary France, 19 2: 147-161. doi:10.1080/09639489.2011.565162
Edwards, Natalie, Hogarth, Christopher and Hubbell, Amy (2011) Introduction – Women’s self-narrative across the Francophone world. Women in French Studies, Special Issue 11-13.
Hubbell, Amy (2011) Weber-Fève, Stacey. Re-hybridizing transnational domesticity and femininity: Women’s contemporary filmmaking and lifewriting in France, Algeria, and Tunisia. The French Review, 85 2: .
Hubbell, Amy L. (2010) Redouane, Najib, et Yvette Benayoun-Szmidt, ed., Assia Djebar. The French Review, 83 5: 1070-1071.
Hubbell, Amy (2009) Ireland, Susan and Patrice Proulx, eds. Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 33 2: 391-393. doi:10.4148/2334-4415.1707
Hubbell, Amy (2009) Graebner, Seth. History's Place: Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. The French Review, 82 4: 836-837.
Powell, Douglas A., Hubbell, Amy L., Chapman, Benjamin and Jacob, Casey, J. (2009) New media for food safety. Food Technology Magazine, 63 1: 38-43.
Hubbell, Amy (2008) Genre Trouble in Nicole Brossard’s un livre. Women in French Studies, 116-123.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2008) "La valise ou le cercueil": un aller-retour dans la memoire des Pieds-Noirs. Revue Diasporas: histoire et sociétés, 12 199-207.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2007) An amputated elsewhere: Sustaining and relieving the phantom limb of Algeria. Life Writing, 4 2: 247-262. doi:10.1080/14484520701559810
Hubbell, Amy (2007) The wounds of Algeria in Pied-Noir autobiography. Dalhousie French Studies, 81 59-68.
Hubbell, Amy (2007) Van Cauwelaert, Didier. One Way: A Novel. Trans. Mark Polizzotti. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 31 2: 478-480.
Hubbell, Amy (2007) Kelly, Debra. Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2005. The French Review, 80 3: 669-669.
Hubbell, Amy (2004) Looking back: Deconstructing postcolonial blindness in nostalgérie. CELAAN: Centre Etudes Litteratures Arts Afrique Nord, 3 1-2: 85-95.
Hubbell, Amy (2000) The other other: Women as seen in Chocolat and Outremer. Ellipsis, 2 62-71.

Areas of research

Studies in Culture