Florence Martin

Professor of French and Francophone Literature and Film

Van Meter 158
410-337-6337
fmartin@goucher.edu

Education

Doctorat Ès-lettres, Université de Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle
Maîtrise Ès-lettres, Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne
Licence Ès-lettres, Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne

Areas of Scholarly Expertise and Interest

Cinema and Literature of Postcolonial France, the Maghreb, West Africa, the French Antilles, Guiana.

Books

Forthcoming, 2011. Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema (in English). Bloomington: Indiana University press.

Co-authored with Maryse Fauvel and Stéphanie Martin. A vous de voir! De l'idée au projet filmique (An introduction to French and francophone cinema in French), Volume I. Paris: Casteilla, 2010 (160 pp).

Co-authored with Favre, Isabelle, De la Guyane à la diaspora africaine. Paris: Karthala, 2002 (201 pp).

Bessie Smith, Paris: Limon, 1994; Marseille: Parenthèses, 1996 (288 pp). (Prix Charles Delauney de l'Académie du Jazz, 1994)

Recent Publications/Presentations/Performances

Cinema and State in Tunisia," in Josef Gugler, ed. Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2010: 271-283.

"The Wiles of Maghrebi Women's Cinema," in Flavia Laviosa, ed. Visions of Struggle in Women's Filmmaking in the Mediterranean.New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010: 23-41.

"Tunisia" in Duncan Petrie & Mette Hjort, eds. Small National Cinemas. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007: 213-228.

"Transvergence and cultural detours: Nadia El Fani's Bedwin Hacker (2002)," Studies in French Cinema, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2007: 119-129.

"Bab al-samah Maftouh / A Door to the Sky, Farida Benlyazid, Morocco/Tunisia/France, 1988," in Gönül Dönmez-Colin, ed., The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle-East. London: Wallflower Press, 2007: 123-132.

« Satin rouge de Raja Amari : l'expression féminine sens dessus dessous », in Guy Degas, ed. Expressions tunisiennes, special issues of Expressions Maghrébines, Vol 5, No 1, Summer 2006: 53-65.

"Agnès Varda: Cléo de 5 à 7," in Phil Powrie, ed. Twenty-four Frames: French Cinema. London: Wallflower Press, 2006: 113-121.

Conference Papers

• July 2010: "Hide and See: Corpo-Reality in Maghrebi Cinema", WOCMES, Barcelona, Spain.
• June 2010: "Le hors-champ révoltant des cinémas rebelles contemporains", CIEF, Montréal, Canada.
• April 2010: "Comment font-elles leurs cinémas?" Colloque Maghreb: Des Réalisatrices et leurs films, St Denis, France.
• November 2009: "'Burning' on the Women's Side: Kassari's L'Enfant endormi," MESA, Boston.
• November 13, 2008: "Framing Shahrazad: Women's Cinema in the Maghreb", Loyola College, Baltimore, MD.
• May 2008: "How do they do it? Women's Cinema," Cinema in the Maghreb AIMS Conference Conference, Tunis, Tunisia.

Latest Projects

• Tunis Film Festival Colloquium - JCC, October 2010 - View Program (PDF)
• Maghreb & Cinemas Colloquim - View Program (PDF)
• Maghrebi Film Festival - View Program (PDF)

Recently Taught Course Sample

• FR 330 L'écriture de la révélation - View Syllabus (PDF)
• WL 230 African Filmmaking : shoot regionnaly, screen globally - View Syllabus (PDF)

Awards/Significant Accomplishments

• Associate Editor for Studies in French Cinema Journal, UK
• Editor for Proto; An Undergraduate Humanities Journal, Baltimore.