Alek Baylee Toumi
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Foreign Languages CCC 414
Stevens Point, WI 54481
atoumi@uwsp.edu
(O) 715-346-2791
ACADEMIC TRAINING
BS, M.A., Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
DISSERTATION
Langue française et identités nord-africaines: A study of the problem of
French language and North-African identities in the works of Albert Memmi
and Kateb Yacine, December 1993
AREAS OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH
Francophone studies: West Africa, Maghreb, Beur; French civilization and
film Twentieth century: Camus-Sartre; theater across the centuries; language
and culture
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Wisconsin-S.P., Associate Prof., Foreign Langs Dept, 2004-present
University of Wisconsin-S.P., Assistant Prof., Foreign Langs Dept, 2000-2004
Franklin & Marshall College, Assistant Prof., French Dept, 1997-2000
Bates College, Assistant Prof., French Dept, 1995-1997
Louisiana State University, Visit. Assist. Prof., French Dept, 1994-1995
Middlebury College, Visit. Assist. Prof., French Dept, 1993-1994
Lawrence University, Lecturer, French Dept, 1992-1993
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Teaching Assistant, 1986-1991
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Member of the reading committee and editor of the book review of the
Nouvelles Etudes Francophones, section on North Africa, publication of the
Conseil International d’Etudes
Francophones, 2004-05
http://cief.info/nef/responsables.html
Member of advisory board of Lexington Book series After the Empire: The
Francophone
World and Postcolonial France, Prof. Valerie Orlando series editor, 2003
Reviewer of Francophone books for the University of Nebraska Press, 2004-06
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Madah-Sartre: english version of the French play;
University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Maghreb Divers. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Dec 2002
Sartre-Beauvoir trilogy
Madah-Sartre: Le kidnapping, jugement et conver(sat/s)ion de Jean-Paul
Sartre et de Simone de Beauvoir
mis en scène par les islamistes du Groupe International Armé. Paris: Marsa,
1996; paper back edition 2003
Taxieur: La libération miracul/rieuse de J.P. Sartre. Paris:
Marsa, 2001
De Beauvoir à beau voile.
Paris: Marsa, Sep 2005
Other plays
Albert Camus: entre la mère et l’injustice. Aix: Edisud, 2004
Albert Camus: Exils d'Alger. submitted for publication
Academie-Kafcademia: Satire of my former life as a graduate
student or:
How I failed to become a "branch Derridian"! submitted for
publication
Poetry
Mémoire des Années de chaînes, de haines, et d’humiliations
collection of poetry and prose;
submitted for publication
SELECTED ARTICLES
Introduction to Tahar
Djaout’s novel Last Summer of reason
Foreword by Wole Soyinka, 1987
Nobel Prize Laureate
in
Hommage à Kateb, Actes du
Colloque à Columbia University, New York, Paris : L’Harmattan, 2006, pg
153-165
Camus l’algérian(iste) : Genèse d’entre la mère ou
l’injustice
Actes du
colloque Albert Camus, Rencontres Méditerranéennes de
Lourmarin,
éditions Edisud, Aix, 2004, pg 81-91
Genèse d’entre la mère ou l’injustice: Camus l’algérian(iste)
Actes du colloque Albert Camus, Rencontres Méditerranéennes de
Lourmarin, éditions Edisud, Aix, 2004, pg 81-91.
La question du "qui tue qui" dans L'imposture des mots de Yasmina Khadra,
Francofonia, Cadix, Spain, vol. 12, December 2003, pg 13-25.
T’humours ou bien tu meurs: Dérisions contre folies dans Alger(qui)rit en
Alger qui pleure,
Analyses, Université de Toulouse, France, pg 283-291, March 2002.
Le théâtre ou la vie: réflexion sur l’écriture théâtrale
Le Maghreb Littéraire, Toronto, vol 5, n 10, pp 111-126, December 2001.
Creolized North Africa: What do they really speak in the Maghreb?
French Cultural Studies: Criticism at the Crossroads, SUNY Press , pp 69-80,
June 2000
Mémoires des années de chaînes, de haines et d'humiliations,
plaquette of twelve poems, in memory of assassinated intellectuals,
Le Maghreb Littéraire, vol III, n 5, pp 113-133, Toronto: La source, May
1999
Unbowed: An Algerian woman confronts Islamic fundamentalists
Consultant for the translation of Khalida Messaoudi's Une Algérienne debout,
(Paris: Flammarion: 1995); translation by Anne Vila, University of
Pennsylvania Press, June 1998
• extensive editing of the manuscript
• author of glossary and biographical profile pp 153-163
Ecrits et écrivain interdits: Le "cas" Kateb Yacine,
Exilés, Marginaux et Parias dans les littératures d'expression francophone,
Editions du GREF, Collection Dont, Actes n 12 Toronto,
October 1994, p 311-324.
CONFERENCES: invited speaker
Keynote speaker on “Resistance,
Intellectuals and Women’s right”
Invited author and scholar to participate in
The Maghreb at the Crossroads:
Francophone Literature, Politics, Culture & Society in Transition
Colloquium, Department of French and Italian, University of Maryland College
Park, Nov 15, 2007
Invited author and scholar to speak on
Camus au théâtre : D’exclusions en
exils, University of Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, Nov 8, 2007
Invited
speaker by the American Association of Teachers of French to participate at
the World Congress - American Association of Teachers of French, Milwaukee,
WI, July 6, 2006
Invited author and scholar by Professor Dana Strand to speak on Camus et
l’Algérie
Carleton, College,
Northfield,
MN,
May 11-13, 2006
Invited author and scholar by Professor
Valerie Orlando
to speak on Madah-Sartre,
Illinois
Wesleyan
College, Bloomington, IL, May 16-18, 2006
Invited author and scholar by
Case
Western University to present a talk on
Women in
Algeria: Between military dictators and Islamic fundamentalists
Case
Western
University,
Cleveland, OH, October 6, 2005
Invited speaker by the American Association of Teachers of French to
participate at the
Table ronde
avec les écrivains: les littératures, expression culturelles de la
diversité,
World Congress of the American Association of Teachers of French, Atlanta,
July 23, 2004
Invited respondent to Elizabeth Schemla’s conferences on The Current
Battle over Secularism in France, Nanovic Institute of European
Studies, University of Notre Dame, March 22, 2004
Invited
author and scholar to present and debate the French film Chaos,
Nanovic Institute of European Studies, University of Notre Dame, January 30,
2004
Invited author and
scholar to give a talk on «Les femministes algériennes », invited by
Professor Catherine Perry, Chair of the Conseil International des Etudes
Francophones,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN,
January 30, 2004
Invited author and scholar by the Albert Camus Society
Genèse d’entre la mère ou l’injustice : Camus l’algérian(iste),
Colloque
Albert Camus, Rencontres Méditerranéennes, Lourmarin, France, October 10,
2003
Invited author and
scholar to give a talk on
Vichy(i)slamisme :
ces intellos néo-collabos dans L’imposture des mots de Yasmina Khadra,
Congrès International des Etudes Francophones,
New Orleans, LA, June 21,
2003.
Invited author by
the Amitiées Camusiennes, to participate at the
Albert
Camus: solitaire et/ou solidaire,
a 3 day round table on Albert Camus Université de Poitiers, France, May
29-31, 2003.
Invited by the
French Department to give a talk Femmes de la Résistance en Algérie
French Department Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, November 18,
2002.
Invited author to talk “About Madah-Sartre”,
French Department,
Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, CA, November 18, 2002.
Invited author
and scholar at the international
France
and Algeria 1962-2002: Turning the page?
Discussant for James Le Sueur Ghost Walking in
Algiers:
Why the GIA kidnapped Sartre and de Beauvoir in Alek Baylee Toumi’s plays, Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and
Francophone Studies,
Florida
State University, Tallahassee, Fl, March 25-26, 2002.
Invited author and scholar on Albert Camus, “In the authors’ word:
Transnational Cultures, Diasporas, and Immigrant Identities in
France and in the
Francophone World
conference,” Texas Tech University, March 22, 2002.
Invited scholar on the
Maghreb to give a talk on Le Maghreb, les intellectuels et la politique, University
of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison,
WI,
October 13, 2000
Guest speaker to give a talk on A la recherche de Kateb Yacine at the
Hommage à Kateb Yacine conference, Columbia University, New York, November
19-20, 1999
Guest speaker at the celebration of the Berber Spring,
Poetry reading from Mémoires des Années de chaînes, de haine et
d’humiliations
Amazigh
Cultural Association of America, New York, NY, April 17, 1999
Guest
speaker at the Colloque International on Littératures Algériennes
Contemporaines, Ecriture Nouvelle Ecriture, University York-Glendon,
Toronto, Canada May 13-16, 1999
• Table
Ronde: Ecrivains Algériens, Ecrire dans et Hors de la cité Reda
Bensmaia, Abdelkader Djemai, Leila Marouane, Malika Mokaddem, Alek
Baylee Toumi
Friday, May 14, 1999.
•
Second Table Ronde : Ecrivains Algériens Espaces d'inspiration:
Imaginaire et réel, Reda Bensmaia, Abdelkader Djemai, Leila Marouane,
Malika Mokaddem, Alek Baylee Saturday, May 14, 1999
Invited speaker at
the French Studies Colloquium, to give a talk on
The legacy of French colonialism in
Algeria, Colby
College,
March 11, 1997
Invited speaker for the Department of French & Italian to give a talk on
Camus l’Algérien,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, August 4, 1995
Invited speaker by the Department of Romance Languages to give a talk on
Le
drame des intellectuels Algériens,
Wake Forest University, March 24, 1994
CONFERENCES AT REFEREED CONVENTIONS AND COLLOQUIA
Entre la
Beure patrie et l’injustice
20th-21st
century French Studies Colloquium, U of Miami, Florida, March 31, 2006
Les intellectuels, 25 ans après Sartre
Midwest Modern Language Association,
Milwaukee, WI, Nov 11, 2005
La
perception du voile en Amérique du Nord
Conseil International des Etudes Francophones, Ottawa, Canada, June 28, 2005
Démystificaton de la question Kabyle,
“The Berbers and other
minorities in North Africa” International Conference, Portland State
University, Portland, OR, May 14, 2005
Exilés,
assassins : dix ans après Djaout et Mimouni,
20th-21st
century French Studies Colloquium,
University of Florida, Gainesville, April 1, 2005
I
laic France : Marianne et ses tchadorettes
Midwest Modern Langage Association, St Louis, MS, November 5, 2004
Yasmina Khadra: entre le marteau militaire et le mépris quituquiste
20th-21st
century French Studies colloquium, Florida State University, April 3, 2004
Résistances
"femministes"
plurielles dans le film Rachida de Yamina Bachir-Chouikh,
North East Modern
Language Association, Pittsburgh, PA, March 6, 2004
Résistances de femmes en Algérie : voilées, violées, puis décapitées
Midwest Modern Langage Association, Chicago, IL, Nov 7, 2003
Terreur sur l’airbus Alger-Paris dans Chronique de l’impure de Malika Ryane
Modern
Language Association, New York, NY,
December 27, 2002
Contemporary
North African Satirists:
Académie-Academia, on humor and theater
Modern Language
Association, Washington D.C.,
December 29, 2000
T'humours ou bien tu meurs: Dérisions et folies en Algé(qui)rie dans Alger
qui pleure,
"Humor
in North African/Beur Literature written in French," Modern Language
Association, Chicago, December 29, 1999
Breaking the silence in the
Maghreb: La langue oubliée,
Twenty Second Annual
Colloquium on Modern Literature and Film, West Virginia University,
Morgantown, October 18, 1997
Géo-Graphies d'Afrique du Nord: Maghreb Médit Maudit Terra-née,"Imagined
Geographies in the Francophone Text," Modern Language Association,
Washington, D.C., December 28, 1996
Entre la Fatma et la fatwa: La bataille d'Alger-iennes, part II,
North East Modern
Language Association, U of
Montreal,
Canada,
April 18-20, 1996.
40 ans après, la seconde guerre d'Algérie,
session "Dire/Vivre l'Algérie,"
Twentieth-Century French Studies Colloquium,
Stanford
University,
April 1, 1995
Entretiens:
creative work, poetry Twentieth-Century Literature Conference,
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 24-25, 1995
The Algerian war then and now: le drame des « Sale-man Rushdie »
algériens,
Twentieth-Century
French Studies Colloquium,
Darmouth
College,
Mar 17-20, 1994.
Sal(wo)man Rushdies,
Guest speaker for the Women Studies Department and the
Department of Romance Languages,
Wake Forest University,
March 25, 1994
Entre l'exil et la prison: Laâbi, le poète sur-vivant,
North East Modern
Language Association, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pensylvania,
April 8-11, 1994
Féminisme vs. Fascislamisme: Contester un contexte d'interdits
Modern
Language Association, Toronto, Canada, December 29, 1993
Ecrits et écrivain interdits: Le "cas" Kateb Yacine,
Colloque
International "Exilés, Marginaux et Parias dans les littératures
d'expression francophone", Brock University, St. Catharines, Ont., Oct 23,
1992
La
critique, Décades et le Confé-rentier,
Twentieth-Century
Literature Conference,
University of Louisville, KY, February 29, 1992
Dé-colonisation ou Des-colonisations: Le dilemme linguistique de
l'intellectuel colonisé
Modern Language
Association, San-Francisco, December 29, 1991
North Africa in French Literature: L'arabe, le juif, le bougnoule, c'est
l'autre
Modern Language Association, San-Francisco, December 28, 1991
COLLOQUIUM AND CONFERENCE ORGANIZER
Organizer
and Chair of the committee of the Colloquium on
Albert Camus, précurseur:
Méditerranée d’hier et d’aujourd’hui “ with the Center for
European
Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 22-23, 2006
Organized and
chaired 2 sessions on Jean Paul Sartre’s centennial at the
Midwest Modern Language, Milwaukee, WI, November 11, 2005
Organized a session on the issue of the veil in France: Mettre le voile
ou mettre les voiles at the CIEF-Conseil International des Etudes
Francophones, Ottawa, Canada, June 28, 2005
AWARDS
Scholarship Award
University
Scholar Award recipient, for the 2006
University of
Wisconsin Stevens-Point Scholar,
University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, May 21, 2006
Language
Teaching Award
Distinguished
Teaching Fellow Award,
(given to top 2%, 24 out of 1500 UW TAs) for 1991 Outstanding University of
Wisconsin Teaching Assistant, from the Letters and Science Teaching
Assistant Instructional Development Program Committee of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, May 1991
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Language Teaching Award
Courses taught at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
Fr 381 Culture clash: The Franco-American experience
(cinema and society through modern films)
Fr 381 Les intellectuels: Camus-Sartre
Fr 370 Francophone literatures and cultures
Fr 370 Modern French theater
Fr 340 Introduction to French literature
Fr 317 Advanced conversation and composition
Fr 313 Conversation, culture and composition
Fr 102 Second semester French language
Fr 101 First semester French language
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCES
Courses taught in French at Middlebury College,
Louisiana State University,
Bates College, and Franklin & Marshall College
Francophone studies
Fr 705 Seminar: Femmes Nord-Africaines, De Beauvoir à beau voile
Fr 408 Identités Francophones (Négritude, Maghreb, Beur)
ID 106 Francophone women writers and politics
Fr 365 France and its Dê(s)-colonizations: (Francophone North and West
Africa)
Fr 364 Francophone literatures and cultures: Maghreb, West Africa
Fr 380 Camus-Sartre, the legacy (engagement, Algerian war)
ID 164 Francophone studies (taught in English)
Fr 490 Senior Thesis (directed student projects on French and Francophone
studies)
French studies, civilization and film
Fr 302 French civilization (language and culture of Modern France)
Fr 306 Introduction to French Studies, 1789 to present
Fr 340 French Studies: Five Faces of Marianne (Lits. & films around the
republics; 1789-1968)
Fr 381 French cinema and society (Bourdieu’s habitus and identities)
Fr 704 Civilization Seminar: Les intellectuels et la culture dans la France
contemporaine
French theater, poetry and prose
Fr 228 Introduction to French theater (17th to 20th-century)
Fr 370 Modern French Theater
Fr 363 Topic courses: Camus-Sartre (existentialists)
Fr 250 Introduction to French literature (survey)
Fr 251 Introduction to French Literature, II (19th and 20th-century)
Fr 229 Introduction to 19th & 20th-century French novel
Fr 340 Survey of French literature (theater, poetry and prose)
The following courses have been and/or can be taught in English:
Fr 705 From Beauvoir to beau veil (Maghreb, Muslim world)
Fr 364 Francophone literatures and cultures
Fr 371 French cinema and society
Fr 363 Intellectuals, Camus-Sartre
GRANTS, ACHIEVEMENTS AND OTHER EXPERIENCES
Nominated for the University Scholar Award, University of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point, 2003
Recognized for Vice Chancelor Merit for Excellence in Scholarship,
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2003
Nominated for the University Scholar Award, University of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point, 2003
Featured author with monograph Maghreb Divers, by the Scholar’s Choice,
book exhibit, Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, Nov 7-9, 2003
Recognized for Vice Chancelor Merit, for Excellence in Scholarship
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 2002
Albert Camus: Return of the Stranger:
New Faculty Grant, for travel and research in Paris, Summer 2001
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, February 2001
Grant to travel to Paris for the publication of Madah-Sartre,
from the of Dean of Faculty of Bates College, February 1997
Fellowship Award to participate as an Assistant Professor at the Cultural
Studies Summer Institute on "Identities, Communities and Cultural Practices"
of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Northwestern University, June
21, 1995-August 4, 1995
Jullian E. Harris Fellowship Award, to reside at La Maison Française,
Department of French & Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, August
1991-May 1992
French House Memorial Award, for dedicated services as a graduate student,
Department of French & Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 6, 1992
ACADEMIC COMMITTEES
at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point
• UWSP Curriculum Committee, Fall 2002-present
• UW system French Test Committee, Fall 2000 - Spring 2003
• UWSP International Committee, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
• Executive Committee, Fall 2000-present
• Student Award Committee, Fall 2000-present
• Salary and Merit Committee, Fall 2003-2004
• Retention and Tenure committee, Fall 2004
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Francophone studies; Francophone women writers
French and Francophone theater; colonial and post colonial literature;
Littérature engagée: intellectuals, Camus-Sartre;
20th century French literature, civilization, cinema and society
MEMBERSHIP
Modern Language Association
Conseil International des Etudes Francophones
Midwest Modern Language Association
American Association of Teachers of French
