
Melek Chekili
Melek Chekili is a first year PhD student in the French and Francophone track of the Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture program. She received a B.A in Modern Languages (English and Spanish) applied to Law and Economics, and an MA in legal and financial translation from the University of the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III. She subsequently worked as an exchange French lecturer within the French and Italian department at the University of Southern California during the academic year 2017/2018. Her multicultural background as well as her experiences abroad enabled her to speak the Tunisian dialect, Arabic, French, English and Spanish.
Her research interests include intermediality, and more specifically the way Francophone issues are tackled across literature and the visual medium, either film, musicals or theatre. She is also interested in postcolonial Francophone North-African literature and culture(s), in particular the relationship between ‘’Beur’’ literature and cinema, and the parallel with Chicano literature, cinema and art in the US, considering notions of bilingualism and translation.
Keywords: Mulitculturalism, notions of intermediality, Tunisian dialect, Arabic, French/Francophone, English and Spanish/Chicano literature in the USA, notions of bilingualism and translation.