Dr Francesca Kazan

Director of the International Internship Program

Francesca Kazan was born and raised in London before going on to Birmingham University where she was awarded her B.A. in English Literature. She traveled to the United States on a Fulbright exchange to teach in Boston, and subsequently went on to complete her Ph.D. in Literature at SUNY, Buffalo.

She then taught in Pennsylvania, at Bryn Mawr College, before going on to the University of Alabama where she was also Director of Undergraduate Studies in the English department there. She taught a range of courses in the contemporary English novel, American literature, Autobiography and Creative Non-Fiction, and Post-Colonial writers. She returned to England permanently in 2003.

Publications

• "Dancing in Alabama," Georgia Review, Summer 2002, 466-476 Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2003, ed. Robert Atwan
• "Sites of Remembrance," Gettysburg Review, Autumn 1998, 381-398 Notable Essay in Best American Essays 1999, ed. Edward Hoagland
• "What's in a Name," Gettysburg Review, Spring 1996, 197-208 Notable Essay in Best American Essays 1997, ed. Ian Frazier
• "Recalling the Other Third World: Nuruddin Farah's Maps," Novel, Spring 1993, 253-267 Reprinted in Emerging Perspectives on Nuruddin Farah, ed. Derek Wright, African Library, Cornell UP 2005
• "Heresy, the Image, and Description, or, Picturing the Invisible: Charlotte Bronte's Villette,” Texas Studies in Language and Literature, Winter 1990, 543-566
• "Description and the Pictorial in Jacob's Room, " ELH, Fall 1988, 701-719 Reprinted in Critical Assessments of Virginia Woolf, Helm Publications.
• "Confabulations in A Passage to India," Criticism, Spring 1987, 197-214

Lectures and Presentations

• 1999 - "Steppin' Out in Dixie: The African-American Step Show in Alabama," African Literature Association, Fez, Morocco
• 1995 - "What's in a Name," University of Lancaster, England
• 1994 - "Considering the Case of Gender: Tahar ben Jelloun's Sand Child," African Literature Association, Ghana
• 1993 - "The Secret Within: Tayeb Salih's Season of Migration to the North," African Literature Association, Guadeloupe
• 1991 - "Recalling the Other Third World: Nuruddin Farah's Maps," Modern language Association, San Francisco
• 1990 - "Identifying Authority: Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God," Chinua Achebe Symposium, Nsukka, Nigeria
• 1991 - "Fashioning the Moroccan: Versions of Portraiture by Vincent Crapanzano and Driss ben Hamad Charhadi," African Literature Association, Senegal
• 1987 - "Lucy Snowe's 'Heretic Narrative'/Charlotte Bronte's Villette," NEMLA, Rhode Island