Research Topic
Aouchem: Algerian Modernism 1962-1991
I am a DPhil candidate in History of Art at the University of Oxford, where I previously studied French and North African francophone literature. Working across text and image, I research the production of decolonial theory in the mid-twentieth century, identifying the seeds of ongoing decolonial debates. My current focus on the 1960s Algerian art movement Aouchem has led to an interest in Third World internationalism; the relationships between cultural and personal memory, sign and body; alternative models of modernism; and the study of Algerian Arabic.
Supervisor: Professor Alastair Wright