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Anna Rocca

Professor, World Languages and CulturesSullivan Building 118978.542.7106

anna.rocca@salemstate.edu
Professional Biography

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. French & Francophone Studies, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA.
  • M. A. French/Italian, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
  • Laurea cum laude, Philosophy, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
  • M. A. International Careers, S.I.O.I., Italian Society of International Organizations, Rome, Italy.
  • Laurea cum laude, Political Sciences, La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
Professional Interests

Contemporary francophone women writers, diasporic female writers, autobiography, visual art, post-colonial feminism and transnational feminist movements.

Responsibilities

SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY

  • Italian Language Program-Coordinator
  • French Language Program-Co-coordinator
  • SITE-Future Teachers of Italian in the US Program-Director
  • Honor Society Phi Sigma Iota-French & Italian Coordinator
  • Italian Study Program Abroad, Sorrento, Italy-Coordinator
  • Italian Club-Advisor

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SERVICE—BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Present-2024 Dante Alighieri Society, Cambridge-School of Italian, Director.
  • Present-2010 The Pirandello Lyceum Association-Board of Governors
  • 2020-2015 Women in French (WIF)-Regional Representative for New England and Eastern Canada
  • 2017-2016 Dante Alighieri Society, Cambridge-Cultural Committee Chair
  • 2016-2013 Northeast Modern Language Association of America (NeMLA)-French and Francophone Lang. & Lit. Director
  • 2018-2010 Prometheus Dance- Education Advisor
Selected Publications

AUTHORED & EDITED BOOKS

  • 2013-Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives. Rocca, Anna and Kenneth Reeds, eds. Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • 2011-Frictions et devenirs dans les écritures migrantes au féminin: Enracinements et renégociations. Rocca, Anna and Névine, El Nossery, eds. Éditions Universitaires Européennes. Sarrebruck, Germany.
  • 2005 - Assia Djebar. Le corps invisible: voir sans être vue. Rocca, Anna. Paris: L’Harmattan.

FORTHCOMING

  • CHAPTER - "‘Autographic’ Challenges and Desires: Francine Oomen’s Déreglée: Journal d’une ménopause" De Gruyter.
  • CHAPTER - "Reevaluation, Reconstruction, and Reframing in Dora Latiri’s Citrons doux: L’Aînée." Amsterdam University Press (AUP), the Netherlands.

PUBLICATIONS

  • (2023) ARTICLE - "From the Margins of Society and Beyond Marginalization: Adrienne Yabouza and la littérature pour la jeunesse." Women in French Studies.
  • (2022) ARTICLE - “Dora Carpenter-Latiri’s Tunisian Women of the Book: Creation, Enunciation, and Belonging.” Kylie Thomas ed. MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture. Special Issue: Photography and Resistance. Sweden: U of Gothenburg. https://maifeminism.com/tunisian-women-of-the-book- creation-enunciation-and-belonging/
  • (2022) ARTICLE - “Adrienne Yabouza raconte : ce ne sont pas des murmures, c’est un éclat de voix de femme!” Berthelot-Raffard, Agnès, Elsa Dorlin et Hanétha Vété-Congolo, eds. Recherches Féministes. Special Issue: Pensées féministes noires francophones : Afrique, Amériques, Europe. Québec City, CA : U Laval, Vol. 34, n. 2.
  • (2022) CHAPTER - “Assia Djebar’s La Soif: Abortion and Crime.” Infanticide /Mothers Who Kill. Charlotte Beyer and Josephine Savarese, eds. Ontario, CA: Demeter Press. Ch. 13.
  • (2021) CHAPTER - “Tunisia: Héla Ammar’s Tarz. An Affective and Imaginative Memory Upon Dispossession.”Newbury, Darren, Lorena Rizzo, & Kylie Thomas, eds. Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges. London: Routledge. 249-268.
  • (2020) ARTICLE - “Adrienne Yabouza’s Co-épouses et co-veuves: Female Exemplary Stories of Hardship and Improbable Alliances.” 2020 Women in French Studies. Special Issue on Francophone Central African Women’s Writing. Vol. 8, 175-189.
  • (2020) ARTICLE – “Héla Ammar’s À fleur de peau/Body Talks: From Anonymous to Familiar Bodies.” Galis, Polly, Maria Tomlinson, & Antonia Wimbush, eds. Special Issue: Challenging Normative Spaces and Gazes: The Body in 20th- and 21st-Century Francophone Culture. L’Ésprit Créateur, Vol. 60, no. 2 (Summer 2020): 83-98.
  • (2020) ARTICLE: “Dora Latiri’s Un amour de tn. Textual and Photographic Representations of Attachment in a Minimalistic Tunisia.” Esposito, Claudia ed. Special Issue : Image, Texte, Son: Esthétiques Transmédiales du Maghreb Contemporain. Expressions maghrébines. Vol. 19, nº 1, Summer 2020: 87-99.
  • (2019) CHAPTER: -“La spiritualité incarnée : Lalla Essaydi et les femmes du Maroc.” Perry, Catherine ed. Spiritualités musulmanes au féminin dans la littérature et les représentations visuelles. Paris: L’Harmattan.
  • (2019) CHAPTER: -“Héla Ammar: Art & Beyond.” Art from Trauma: Genocide and Healing Beyond Rwanda. Gallimore Rangira and Gerise Herndon, eds. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 93-107.
  • (2019) CHAPTER: -“Azza Filali et les interférences créatrices.” Hybridations et tensions narratives au Maghreb et en Afrique subsaharienne. Delas, Daniel, Khalid Zekri, & Anne Begenat-Neuschäfer, eds. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang Edition.
Selected Presentations

    CONFERENCE PAPERS

    • (2024) “‘Autographic’ Desires and Challenges: Francine Oomen’s Déreglée: Journal d’une ménopause.” King’s College London, London, UK, June 15.
    • (2024) “To Stage Oneself to Reveal Our Masks : Meryem Alaoui’s La Vérité sort de la bouche du cheval.” Women in French (WIF) Conference, University of Tuscaloosa, AL: March 28-30.
    • (2024) "Tunisia: A Surplus of Philanthropic Wisdom – Jelila Hafsia and Lassaad Hajji’s The Owl of Minerva." Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference, Boston; March 7-10.
    • (2023) “Au-delà de la vengeance : Le prix du cinquième jour.” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 19-25;
    • (2023) "Penser le sujet femme noire francophone : Réflexions," (Invited), Online March 7.
    • (2023) “The Maghrib in Massachusetts,” (Invited), UMass Boston, February 25.
    • (2022) “Conflits, constrictions et reconstructions dans Citrons Doux: L’Ainée de Dora Latiri.” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference, Trento, Italy, June 20-26;
    • (2022) “Fabienne Kanor’s Louisiane: Psychopolitics and Black Masculinities.”20th and 21st Centuries French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium March 24 – 26, 2022;
    • (2021) “Fabienne Kanor: Ways of Inhabiting the World.” MLA International Symposium (MLA), University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland; June 17-19;
    • (2021) “La Louisiane de Fabienne Kanor.” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference, Madeira, Portugal, June 7-13;
    • (2021) “Tunisian Women of the Book.” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Virtual Conference; March 11-14.
    • (2020) “Représentations identitaires de solidarité : Héla Ammar” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference, Gdansk, Poland, June 8-14. CANCELLED
    • (2020) “From the Margins and Beyond Marginalization: African Women Writers and Children Literature.” Women in French (WIF) Conference, Iowa State University, IA; May 14-16. CANCELLED.
    • (2020) “Fatou Keita: Writing to Children.” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference, Boston, MA; March 5-8;
    • SESSION PROPOSER, ORGANIZER & CHAIR
    • (2022) Panel: “From the Margins and Beyond Marginalization: African Women Writers and Children Literature” 10th International Women in French Conference “Margins: Voices and Pathways” Women in French (WIF) Conference, May 12-14;
    • (2022) Symposium: “Photography & Resistance: Artists in Conversation: Dora Carpenter-Latiri’sTunisian Women of the Book: Creation, Enunciation, and Belonging” MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture Symposium, April 28;
    • (2022) Panel: “Literature, Cultural Studies, Race, and Gender” 20th and 21st Centuries French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, March 24 – 26.
    • (2021) Panel: “Les pratiques culturelles et artistiques du vivre-ensemble.” Conseil International d’Etudes Francophones (CIEF) Conference, Madeira, Portugal, June 7-13;
    • (2021) Panel: “Francophone Women Writers Embracing Eco-Feminism (WIF Session).” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Virtual Conference; March 11-14;
    • (2021) Roundtable: “Visual Africa: Francophone Women’s Aesthetic Representations of Africa (WIF Session).” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Virtual Conference; March 11-14;
    • (2020) Panel: “Contemporary Francophone Women Authors’ Representations of the Sacred-WIF Session.” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference, Boston, MA; March 5-8;
    • (2020) Roundtable: “Francophone Women Writers Representing Africa in Children’s Literature (WIF Session).” Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference, Boston, MA; March 5-8;
    Personal Interests

    Dogs, Contemporary Art, Outdoor Activities, Dance, & Music!