Academic Background and Appointments
Dr. Mustapha Hamil, a Moroccan-born scholar, has built an established academic career crossing Victorian literature, postcolonial studies, and Francophone and Arabic literatures and cultures. His intellectual journey began in France, where he earned his Doctorat de 3ème Cycle in Victorian Literature (1986) from the University of Stendhal in Grenoble. In 1987, he returned to Morocco, where he taught English and Anglophone literature at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech (1987–1994). His interest in postcolonial and Anglophone studies led him to the United States, first as a Fulbright Scholar at Duke University (1994–1996) and then to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2000 with a dissertation exploring hybridity and identity in the Moroccan postcolonial novel.
Dr. Hamil was appointed as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois in 2001 before he joined the University of West Georgia as an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Literature (2001–2007). He also taught Arabic literature and culture courses in translation in the Honors College.
Since 2007, he has taught a variety of courses in Comparative Literature (French and English) at the University of Windsor, where he currently holds the position of Associate Professor. Recognized for his dedication to teaching, he received the Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009 from the university’s part-time student association (OPUS).
Research & Teaching Interests
Dr. Hamil’s research and teaching interests include Postcolonial theory (Hybridity, Identity, Exile), Francophone Maghrebi literature, immigration Literature, Arabic literature in translation, and Arab cinema.
Select Articles in Refereed Journals
Bodies for Sale: Sex Tourism in Nabil Ayouch's Zin li Fik [Much Loved] 2015. Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 22, 2023.
Representation of Terror and Terrorism in Two Arab Films: Paradise Now (2005) by Hany Abu Assad and Horses of God (2012) by Nabil Ayouch. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 23(3), 2021, September.
Abdelkebir Khatibi: From Regional Postcolonialism to Global Cosmopolitanism. Cincinnati Romance Review, 46, 41-57, 2019, June.
Cultural Hybridity and Cultural Ambivalence in Contemporary Italy: Amara Lakhous’s Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio (2006). Journal of Intercultural Studies, 40(2), 141-154, 2019, March.
(Re) Moving borders: North African clandestine emigrant in the age of terror. International Journal of Francophone Studies, 20(3-4), 237-255, 2017.
Terrorism: Mahi Binebine's Les Etoiles de Sidi Moumen (2010). International Journal of Francophone Studies, 14(4), 549-569, 2012.