Lia Brozgal
LIA BROZGAL is Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA. Specializing in 20th– and 21st-century French and North African literature, film, culture, and history, she is the author of Against Autobiography: Albert Memmi and the Production of Theory and Absent the Archive: Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris (17 October 1961). She is co-editor of Being Contemporary: French Literature, Culture and Politics Today and of Ninette of Sin Street (the first English translation of the Tunisian novella Ninette de la rue du Péché by Vitalis Danon). Her recent project, the translation and scholarly introduction of A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean (original edited in French by Leïla Sebbar), was a finalist for the National Jewish Book award. She has published articles on a variety of related topics, including: memoirs of occupation in French Tunisia, the representation of race in French cinema, documentary film, and Algerian fiction in French.