Olivia C. Harrison

Professor Olivia C. Harrison is the 2024–2025 Dornsife-EHESS professeure invitée at the EHESS, in residence spring 2025. Professor Harrison’s research focuses on postcolonial North African, Middle Eastern, and French literature, film, and theory, with a particular emphasis on aesthetic and political affiliations between writers and intellectuals from the Global South. She is the author of two monographs: Transcolonial Maghreb: Imagining Palestine in the Era of Decolonization (Stanford University Press, 2016) analyzes the representation of Palestine in Moroccan, Algerian, and Tunisian literary works and public debates from the 1960s to the present; Natives Against Nativism: Antiracism and Indigenous Critique in Postcolonial France (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) examines the intersection of anticolonial solidarity and antiracist activism in postcolonial France. She is currently investigating the recuperation of antiracism by the French alt right for a book tentatively titled The White Minority. Coeditor of Souffles-Anfas: A Critical Anthology from the Moroccan Journal of Culture and Politics (Stanford University Press, 2016) and co-translator of Hocine Tandjaoui’s Clamor (Litmus Press, 2021), she has translated essays and poems by Abdelkebir Khatibi, Abraham Serfaty, and Abdellatif Laâbi.

Header image: “Le Plus Grand Reseau du Monde,” Lucien Boucher,
Air France, 1964, David Rumsey Map Center