Dr. Lynda Chouiten

Professor

Department of English, University of Boumerdes, Boumerdes, AlgeriaPrimary Institution

Biography

Lynda Chouiten is Professor of literature in the department of English of the University of Boumerdès (Algeria); her PhD, awarded in 2013 by the National University of Ireland, Galway, was funded by the Irish Government under its PRTLI programme. She is the editor of Commanding Words: Essays on the Discursive Constructions, Manifestations, and Subversions of Authority (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) and the author of Isabelle Eberhardt and North Africa: A Carnivalesque Mirage (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015) as well as about twenty articles/book chapters. Chouiten is also a writer and a poet. So far, she has published two novels. Le Roman des Pôv’Cheveux, was in the short list of two prestigious prizes – le Prix Mohammed Dib and L’Escale d’Alger – in 2018 and Une Valse won the Assia Djebar Prize (le Grand Prix Assia Djebar) in 2019. Her first short story collection, Des Rêves à leur portée, was released in March 2022 while her first poetry collection (J’ai Connu les déserts et autres poèmes) was published in May 2023.

Current Institution

Primary Institution

Professor

Department of English, University of Boumerdes, Boumerdes, Algeria

Journal Roles

Editorial Board Member

Social Sciences

Jan, 2024 - Current

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