Lyna Ami AliPhD StudentFrench

Lyna Ami Ali is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University. She holds a BA in Economics and English, two Master's in English linguistics from the Sorbonne and the École normale supérieure and one Master's in French and Francophone studies from Miami University, Ohio. Her research interests include Caribbean and African literatures, and more precisely the concept of diasporic indigeneities in the works of Afro-Caribbean and Maghrebi artists, writers and filmmakers as a mode of formation of cross-cultural solidarities during the Algerian revolution. Conceiving Algeria/El Djazaïr as an archipelago, she is interested in how the trans-archipelagic solidarity between the Maghreb and the Caribbean can reveal the ways in which the revolution has been understudied and overlooked in the very creative practices that birthed it, in its various transoceanic iterations.

She published her first article entitled "A Vava Inouva de Idir : Tissage et Transmission du conte (tamacahut) de la tradition kabyle" with Tamazgha Studies Journal. She is the recipient of the Laney Graduate School Fellowship.

Education 

CPGE HEC, Paris 5ème

M.A, English literature, civilization and linguistics, La Sorbonne (Paris IV)

M.A, French and Francophone literature, Miami University, Ohio

M.A, English studies, linguistics and didactics, ENS Cachan