Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

Main research interests are postcoloniality in the francophone world, Franco-Maghrebian Relations, French and Francophone political philosophy and Francophone Maghrebian literature.

Permanent Member of the Commission Recherche, Société Française des Etudes Littéraires Francophones; a number of editorial boards including International Journal of Francophone Studies, Anarchist Studies, University of Wales Press French & Francophone series; editorial consultant, Mots pluriels.

Research Clusters

• Francophone

Current Research Projects

• The French Connection with Bengal

Research CV

Books

• Post-coloniality: The French Dimension, Berghahn, Oxford/ New York, 2007, 352pp, ISBN:978-1-84545-252-0
• Edited book: M. Majumdar & M. Saad (eds), Transition and Development in Algeria: Economic, Social and Cultural Challenges, Intellect, Bristol, UK/ Portland, Oregon, USA, 2005 ISBN:1-84150-074-7
• Edited book: Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary, Arnold, London/ Oxford University Press Inc./ New York, 2002, ISBN: 0 340 80696 6 (hbk) [now 9780340806968] , 0 340 80697 4 (pbk) [9780340806975]
• Althusser and the End of Leninism?, Pluto Press, London/ East Haven, Connecticut, USA, 1995, ISBN: 0745308880 (hbk), 0745308872 (pbk), 260 pp

Articles

• '‘Une Francophonie à l'offensive’? Recent Developments in Francophonie', Modern & Contemporary France, 20:1, 2012, pp.1-20.
• ‘Les Postcolonial Studies dans l’aire anglophone’, ‘Le postcolonial au-delà du postcolonial’, Raison présente, special issue, 175, automne 2010, pp.7-17
• Review of E. Mudimbe-Boyi (ed), Empire Lost : France and its Other Worlds, H-France Review, 10: XX, March 2010
• With Azzedine Haddour, ‘Whither Francophone studies? Launching the debate’, Editorial introduction to 10th anniversary volume, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 10:1/2, 2007, pp.7-16
• ‘Les Elections municipales britanniques: immigration et insécurité’, Politique, 2002
• ‘Lutte, parole et résistance dans les textes antillais’, in ‘Passerelles Francophones. Pour un nouvel espace d’interprétation. Vol II’, Vives Lettres, 11, Spring 2001, Université Marc Bloch, UFR Lettres, Strasbourg, pp.133-156, ISSN: 1272-842X
• ‘Le Silence de la Mer’, Bulletin of Francophone Africa, 14, Winter 1999, pp.75-88
• ‘The Intransigence of the Intellectual: Autonomy and Ideology in Althusser and Sartre’, Sartre Studies International, 3:1, Spring 1997, pp.22-42; ISSN:1357-1559
• ‘National, Cultural and Literary Identity in the Beur Novel’, French Studies in Southern Africa, No 25, 1996, pp.72-84, ISSN: 0259-0247
• ‘The Invasion of the Ethnic?’, Bulletin of Francophone Africa, 4:8, 1995, pp.11-23
• ‘A travers le miroir, le regard de l'autre sur l'autre’, Bulletin of Francophone Africa, 3:5, Spring 1994, pp.12-27
• ‘Extra-European National Minorities in France and the Concept of European Identity’, History of European Ideas, 19:4-6, 1994, pp.647-653
• ‘The War with No Name - Thirty Years On’, Bulletin of Francophone Africa, 2:3, Spring 1993, pp.77-83
• ‘Althusser, the Man or the Myth,’ Journal of Communist Studies, 9:3, 1993, pp.289-295

Chapters in Books

• L’imaginaire orientaliste : échos et retours, in Anne Douaire-Banny (ed), Isthmes francophones : du texte aux chants du monde, Mélanges offerts à Beïda Chikhi, Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, 2012, pp.205-216 
• Histoire et histoires: Florence et Fatehpur Sikri, deux villes ensorcelées dans l’œuvre de Salman Rushdie, in Beïda Chikhi & Anne Douaire_Banny (eds), Villes, vies, visions. Les villes, propriétés de l’écrivain, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2012, ISBN: 978-2-296-99635-9, pp.53-65
• Back to the Future? Franco-African Relations in the Shadow of France's Colonial Past, with Tony Chafer, in Tony Chafer & Emmanuel Godin (eds), The End of the French Exception? Decline and Revival of the 'French Model', Macmillan Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2010, pp.203-220. 
• ‘Women and the Republican Nation in Modern France’, chapter with Sharif Gemie, in James Cohen & Martine Spensky (eds), Citoyenneté et diversité, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2009, pp.109-129, ISBN: 978-2-84516-394-2.
• Nationalisme, culture et développement, chapter in Naaman Kessous, Christine Margerrison, Andy Stafford & Guy Dugas (eds), Algérie. Vers le cinquantenaire de l’Indépendance. Regards critiques,L’Harmattan, Paris, 2009, ISBN : 978-2-296-08051-5Nationalisme, culture et développement, in Naaman Kessous, Christine Margerrison, Andy Stafford & Guy Dugas (eds), Algérie. Vers le cinquantenaire de l’Indépendance. Regards critiques, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2009, ISBN : 978-2-296-08051-5 
• ‘Women and the Republican Nation in Modern France’, with Sharif Gemie, in James Cohen & Martine Spensky (eds), Citoyenneté et diversité, Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2009, pp.109-129, ISBN: 978-2-84516-394-2
• The ‘New Man’ at the dawn of the 21st Century: challenges and shifts in Algerian identity, in M. Majumdar & M. Saad (eds), Transition and Development. Patterns, Challenges and Implications of Change in Algeria, Intellect, Bristol, UK/ Portland, Oregon, USA, 2005, pp.113-130, ISBN 1841500747 
• Exceptionalism and Universalism: the uneasy alliance, in A. Chafer & E. Godin (eds), La France exceptionnelle, Berghahn, Oxford/ New York, 2004 
• Hybridité et voix dans la théorie postcoloniale: le cas de Paul Smaïl, in Charles Bonn (ed), Migrations des identités et des textes entre l’Algérie et la France, dans les littératures des deux rives, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2004, pp.107-122 , ISBN: 2-7475-6151-8
• Orientalism and the Problematic of Vision: A Contemporary Perspective, in Margaret Topping (ed), Eastern Voyages, Western Visions: French Writing and Painting of the Orient, Peter Lang, Oxford/ Bern/ Berlin/ Frankfurt/ New York/ Vienna, 2004, pp.347-366, ISBN 3-03910-183-8
• Francophonie: the Caribbean Dimension, in Yvette Rocheron & Christopher Rolfe (eds), Shifting Frontiers of France and Francophonie, Peter Lang, Oxford/ Bern etc., 2004, pp.31-48, ISBN 3-906768-31-7
• La Dialectique de l'écriture, in Michel Laronde (ed), Leïla Sebbar, L’Harmattan, Paris, 2003, ISBN: 2-7475-4900-3, pp.89-109
• The Francophone World Moves into the Twenty-First Century, in Kamal Salhi (ed), Francophone Post-colonial Cultures: Critical Essays, Lexington Academic Books, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham/ Boulder/ New York/ Oxford, 2003, pp.1-13, ISBN: 0 7391 0567 1 (hbk); 0 7391 0568 X (pbk) 
• The Subversion of the Gaze: Shérazade and Other Women in the Work of Leïla Sebbar, in Gill Rye & Michael Worton (eds), Women’s Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990’s, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2002, pp.195-206, ISBN: 07190 6226 8 (hbk); 07190 6227 6 (pbk)
• La Méditerranéité: identités et discours, in Nourredine Abdi (ed) Aire régionale Méditerranée, Unesco, Paris, 2001, pp.211-227
• L’Autre et la représentation visuelle dans la littérature franco-maghrébine, in Christine O'Dowd-Smyth (ed), Littératures francophones: la problématique de l’altérité, WIT School of Humanities Publications, Waterford, 2001, pp.29-44, ISBN: 0-9S40281-0-4
• Language and History in Franco-Algerian Relations, in Kamal Salhi (ed), Francophone Studies: Discourse and Identity, Elm Bank Publications, Exeter, 2000, pp.105-120, ISBN: 1-902454-05-7
• Identités plurielles à travers la Méditerranée, in Lídia Anoll & Marta Segarra (eds), Voix de la Francophonie, Publicacions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 1999, pp.363-371
• African and Maghreb Literature (1992-97), annual chapters co-authored with Maryse Bray, Aline Cook, Hélène Gill, Debra Kelly, Ethel Tolansky, The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Vol 55-58 (1993-1998), W.S.Maney & Son Ltd, for the Modern Humanities Research Association
• Francophonie: hégémonie, culture et discours, in Marc Gontard et Maryse Bray (eds), Regards sur la francophonie, Presses de l'Université de Rennes, 1996, pp.59-63, ISBN: 2-86847-239-7
• Salman Rushdie ou la fin de l'orientalisme, in Charles Bonn (ed), Les Littératures des Immigrations. Tome 2: Exils Croisés, L'Harmattan, Paris, 1995, pp.177-184
• La Tempête de la Révolution, chapter in Roger & Arlette Chemain (eds), Imaginaires francophones, Publication de la Faculté des Lettres, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, 1995, pp. 297-310, ISBN: 2910897060
• Region, Nation and Extra-European National Minorities in France, chapter in Michael Kelly & Rosemary Bock (eds), France, Region and Nation, ASM&CF, University of Southampton, Southampton, 1993, ISBN: 0854324798, pp.121-129
• The Reconstruction of Memory in the Post-colonial Age: The Case of France and King Clovis, in 5th ISSEI Conference Proceedings, CD-Rom, Utrecht, Netherlands, 1997

Other Publications

• Annotated entries on Charles Bettelheim, Pierre Loti, Louis Malle, André Malraux for French Books on India. From Dupleix to Decolonization, University of Glasgow French & German Publications, 2011, ISBN: 978 85261 922 3; also available on line. 
• Review of Alek Baylee Toumi, Madah-Sartre: The Kidnapping, Trial and Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 13:2, 2010, pp.346-348.
• Review of E. Mudimbe-Boyi (ed), Empire Lost : France and its Other Worlds, H-France Review, 10:XX, March 2010
• Review of S. Guillaume, (ed), Les Associations dans la francophonie, Modern and Contemporary France, 16:3, 2008, pp.359-360.
• Francophone, in Prem Poddar, Rajeev Patke & Lars Jensen (eds), A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2008, pp.142-144
• Guest editor, with Azzedine Haddour, 10th anniversary volume, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 10:1/2, 2007
• ‘Art and Culture in Modern Algeria’, introduction and dossier edited by Margaret A. Majumdar and Mohammed Saad, Journal of Algerian Studies, 4 & 5, 1999/2000, pp.45-138
• La Francophonie, in Christopher John Murray (ed), Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought, Fitzroy Dearborn, New York/ London, 2004, pp.230-234
• Translation and editing, Employment, Unemployment and the Challenge of Globalisation, Chinese Labour & Social Security Publishing House, 2004 
• Interview ‘Francophonie Today’, to view this please click here.  
• Interviews ‘Algerian Nationalism and the Popular Front’, ‘Algerian Nationalism during World War II’, to view these please click here.  
• Numerous entries in M.A. Majumdar (ed), Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary, Arnold, London/ Oxford University Press Inc./ New York, 2002
• Preface to Kamal Salhi, The Politics and the Aesthetics of Kateb Yacine. From Francophone Literature to Popular Theatre, Edwin Mellen, Lampeter, 1999 
• Preface to Zahia Smail Salhi, Politics and Poetics: A Francophone Experience, Edwin Mellen, Lampeter, 1999 
• Obituary, Cornelius Castoriadis, Anarchist Studies, 6:1, 1998, pp.93-4, ISSN: 0967-3393
• Broadcast interview on national languages enquiry, by Vincent Kane, Meet for Lunch, BBC Radio Wales, 24 March 1998
• Marxism (2,000 words), Althusser (500 words), entries in Alex Hughes & Keith A. Reader (eds), Encyclopedia of Contemporary French Culture, Routledge, London/ New York, 1998, pp.358-361, 13-14, ISBN: 0-415-13186-3
• The Reconstruction of Memory in the Post-colonial Age, edited proceedings of workshop at 5th International ISSEI conference, CD-Rom, Utrecht, Netherlands, 1997
• The Legacy of Empire, edited proceedings of workshop at 4th International ISSEI conference, in The European Legacy, 1:1, 1996, pp.101-142
• Huguette Bouchardeau & Françoise Giroud, in D.Bell, D.Johnson, P.Morris (eds), The Biographical Dictionary of French Political Leaders, Harvester Wheatsheaf/ ASM&CF, Hemel Hempstead, 1990, pp.42-43; 180-181
• Numerous book reviews: For Journal of Communist Studies; Bulletin of Francophone Africa; History of European Ideas; New Times; The European Legacy; Modern & Contemporary France; International Journal of Francophone Studies; MIT-EJMES Review

External Funding

• 2002-2005 Wingate Research Scholarship

Invited Speaker

• Histoire et histoires dans deux villes ensorcelées: Florence et Fatehpur Sikri, invited speaker at conference ‘Villes, vies, visions. Les villes propriétés de l’écrivain’, Université de Paris-Sorbonne Abu Dhabi (PSUAD), Abu Dhabi, 10-11 March 2009
• Postcoloniality: The French Dimension, University of Kent, 17 February 2009
• The French Presidency, West Kent European Movement, 7 November 2008
• Postcoloniality: The French Dimension, University of Westminster , 28 October 2005
• Encadrement des doctorants et formation des encadreurs, invited speaker, Tempus seminar, University of Oran, Algeria, 18 April 2005
• Memories of Empire, invited speaker, University of Westminster , 29 October 2004
• Discourses of Commemoration, Peter Morris Memorial Lecture, ASMCF Annual Conference, University of Surrey , 2 July 2004
• Esclavage et liberté: stratégies de lutte, invited speaker, Collège international de philosophie, Paris, 4 May 2004
• Algerian Identity: Challenge and Change at the Dawn of the 21st Century, invited speaker, Society for Algerian Studies, SOAS, 28 April 2004
• Développement et culture, invited keynote speaker, Deuxième Semaine Scientifique des Universités Algériennes, University of Oran, 12 April 2003
• La Francophonie, guest speaker, Total Refinery, Milford Haven, 20 March 2003
• Algerian nationalism and the struggle for nationhood, invited speaker: University of Westminster , 25 October 2002
• Les Elections municipales britanniques: immigration et insécurit ’, invited speaker, conference L’Hexagone sous un autre angle: les élections présidentielles françaises vues d’ailleurs, Université Paris XIII, 1 June 2002
• Invited panellist, Round Table, Hybridity in the Post-colonial World, Semaines Mosaïques, Institut Français, London , 21 March 2002
• La politique de l’enseignement des lettres francophones en GB , AEFCO conference, University of Strasbourg, France, May 2001
• Invited panellist, Languages Subject Centre Roadshow, Swansea University , 21 May, 2001
• From Oral to Written: Story-telling by North African Women, 7th Performance Studies Conference, University of Mainz, Germany, 28 March -1 April, 2001
• Whatever happened to the New Man? Developments and Regressions in Algerian Identity, 1954 to the Present Day, History Research Seminar, University of Glamorgan , 21 March, 2001
• France and the French in the World Today, public lecture, University of Glamorgan , 6 February, 2001

Consultancy, Memberships etc

• Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Transcultural Visions, 2012 -
• Reports for publishers: Manchester University Press, Pinter, Routledge, Edward Arnold, Intellect, Pluto; University of Wales Press; journals: The European Legacy, French History, Irish Journal of French Studies
• Member of Editorial Board, University of Wales Press French & Francophone series
• Member of Editorial Board, Anarchist Studies, 1999-
• Bulletin of Francophone Africa, co-founder/ editor April 1992 - December 1996. 
• Member of Editorial Board of Le Maghreb Littéraire, Toronto, Canada, 1996 -
• Member of Editorial Board of Bulletin of Francophone Africa, 1996 -
• Member of selection committee, conference, Les Littératures des immigrations, Université Paris XIII/ Casablanca 2, December 1994
• Member of Advisory Board, French Postcolonial Studies (formerly ASCALF Bulletin & ASCALF Yearbook), 2000- 
• Member of Editorial Board of Modern and Contemporary France, 2000 – 2004
• Member of Editorial Board, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 2002- 
• Editorial Consultant, Mots pluriels, 2002-
• Honorary Secretary of Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, September 2000 – 2004 
• Member Executive Committee, Association of University Professors and Heads of French 2000 – 2004 
• Member of UCML Wales steering group 1999-2001
• Member Management Committee, Society for Algerian Studies 1998 – 2003
• Membre permanent, Commission Recherche, Société Française des Etudes Littéraires Francophones, 2002-