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Shanaaz Mohammed
Assistant Professor of French
Bio
Dr. Shanaaz Mohammed works in the field of Francophone Caribbean Studies. Her research focuses on representations of the South Asian diaspora in Francophone literature, and her essay “Coralization: Coral Materiality in Khal Torabully’s Poetry” recently received the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Postcolonial Essay Award.
In the language classroom, she enjoys integrating modern technologies to introduce students to innovative and exciting ways of using French. She is always eager to expose students to the rich diversity of the French-speaking world, which moves beyond the borders of France and extends to countries in Africa and the Americas, Caribbean, and Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is her hope that students leave her class with new perspectives on culture, greater confidence in their ability to communicate, and a more nuanced, enlarged sense of the world and the place of French in it.
Education
PhD, Florida State University
MA, Florida State University
BA, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Research Interests/ Areas of Focus
Francophone Caribbean Literature and Cinema, South Asian Diaspora, Technology Enhanced Learning
Selected Publications
“Re-imagining the Aapravasi Ghat: Khal Torabully’s Poetry and the Indentured Diaspora.” Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 4.2 (2021): 118-143.
“Disarticulating Indianité: Re-imagining the Motherland in Ernest Moutoussamy’s Chacha et Sosso.” Romance Notes 57.2 (2017): 221-232.
Selected Presentations
“Edutaining in the French Language Classroom.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Buffalo, New York (2023).
“Henry Sidambarom and the South Asian Diaspora’s Pursuit for Citizenship in the French Caribbean.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Baltimore, Maryland (2022).
“The Aapravasi Ghat: A Postcolonial Site of (Dis)Unity.” Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. Virtual (2021).
“Beyond the Rhizome: Toward a Coral Poetics and Coral Paradox.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Virtual (2021).
“What Do You Meme? Digital Upgrades to the French Language-learning Classroom.” Société des Professeurs français et francophones d’Amérique. New York, New York (2019).
“Coolitude and the Symbolic Significance of the Aapravasi Ghat in Khal Torabully’s Voices from the Aapravasi Ghat: Indentured Imaginaries.” Center for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin-Luther University. Halle (Saale), Germany (2019).
Awards and Honors
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Postcolonial Essay Award, 2022.
