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

Areas of Scholarly Expertise and Interest

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

Recent Publications/Presentations/Performances

Books

Co-edited with Patricia Caillé and Kamel Benouanès, Les Cinémas du Maghreb.Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012 (344 pp).

Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema. Bloomington: Indiana University press, 2011 (271pp).

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). 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)

Publications

Forthcoming (Spring 2013) “Trouble Everyday: The Neo-Colonialists Bite Back”, in Marjorie Vecchio, ed. The Films of Claire Denis; Intimacy on the Border. London: I.B. Tauris Press. Anticipated publication date: August 2012.

‘Les ‘Cinémas du Maghreb’: de la construction plurielle d’un label regional”, co-authored with Dr. Patricia Caillé. Akfar/Ideas No. 29, “Le Réveil Arabe” special issue, Spain, March 2011: 87-90.

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.

Recent Projects

• Studies in French Cinema Colloquium, June 2012– Le Cinéma de la contestation, King’s College, London. View Program
• 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.

Reviews:

Africultures.com review for Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema

Amazon.com Book listing and reviews for Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema