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 the formation of cross-cultural affinities woven in the works of Caribbean and North-African artists, writers, and filmmakers. Conceiving Algeria as an archipelago, she is interested in the trans-archipelagic cultural expressions between North-Africa and the Caribbean.

 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