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Aurelia Mouzet

  • Associate Professor, French and Italian
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
  • Associate Professor, Applied Intercultural Arts Research - GIDP
Contact
  • (520) 621-7349
  • Modern Languages, Rm. 549
  • Tucson, AZ 85721
  • aureliam@arizona.edu
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  • Courses
  • Scholarly Contributions

Biography

Dr. Aurélia Mouzet received a Ph.D. in Francophone Studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Western Paris. Her research focuses on the intersection of myths, religion, politics, and memories in literature, theatre, and cinema of the Black Atlantic.

Dr. Mouzet's first monograph investigates the figure of Moses as a Transatlantic Black Prophet in literatures and cultures of the black Atlantic. The book analyzes the flows of transatlantic cultural exchange between Africa and its diasporas as revealed by the « devenir-mythe » of Moses. Based on a corpus of Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone novels, the book proposes to see how the reversal of the biblical myth of Moses allows writers to question its liberating potential and the power of literature with regard to Black experiences. The monograph will be published by Classiques Garnier in 2023. 

Dr. Mouzet is also the founding director of Talk-it-OUT! an inquiry-based theatre workshop program that teaches students how to use interactive theatre performance to foster discussion and enhance the community’s awareness of issues that youth and minorities have to deal with in today’s world. She was recently awarded the Chatfield Antiracist Research, Teaching or Service Award. 

At the University of Arizona, Dr. Mouzet teaches courses in Francophone cultures, civilizations, theatre, films, and literature.

Degrees

  • Ph.D. Comparative Literature
    • University of Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, 92, France
    • Moïse, un prophète noir transatlantique ? Enjeux du mythe de Moïse et de la Terre Promise dans les romans de Zora Neale Hurston, Sylvia Wynter, Ngugi wa Thiong’o et Pius Ngandu Nkashama (Moses, a Transatlantic Black Prophet ? Stakes of the Biblical Myth of Moses and the Promised Land in the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, Sylvia Wynter, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and Pius Ngandu Nkashama)
  • Ph.D. Francophone Studies
    • University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
    • Born She Is the Divine Christ Child: Female Figurations of Christ in Black Atlantic Literature, Theatre, and Cinema
  • M.Phil. Comparative Literature
    • University of Western Paris, Nanterre, France
    • Esthétique du métissage dans Wild Cat Falling de Mudrooroo et House Made of Dawn de N. Scott Momaday: Etude Comparatiste
  • B.A. English and Anglophone Cultures, Civilizations, and Literatures
    • University of Western Paris, Nanterre
  • A.A. Drama Education
    • University Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France
  • B.A. French Modern Literature
    • University of Western Paris, Nanterre, France

Work Experience

  • University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri (2016 - 2017)
  • University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri (2012 - 2016)

Awards

  • Dorrance Dean Award for Research and Entrepreneurialism
    • COH/University of Arizona, Spring 2025
  • Dorrance Dean's Award for Research & Entrepreneurialism
    • COH, University of Arizona, Fall 2024
  • CNRS and University of Arizona International Research Center Fellowships
    • University of Arizona/CNRS, Fall 2022
  • The Chatfield Award for Anti-Racist Research, Teaching, or Service
    • UA College of Humanities, Fall 2022
    • Fall 2021 (Award Nominee)
  • Early Career Award
    • University of Arizona, Fall 2020 (Award Nominee)
  • Best Dissertation Award
    • University Paris Nanterre, Spring 2020 (Award Nominee)
  • AZ Humanities Project Award
    • AZ Humanities, Spring 2019
  • COH Teaching and Outreach Award
    • UA College of Humanities, Spring 2018

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Interests

Teaching

Francophone Studies;Ethnic Studies;Africana Studies;Theatre;Religion and Literature;Myths and Literature;

Research

Race, Gender, and Politics;Black Atlantic;Geocriticism;Ecocriticism;Memory Studies;Myths;Minority Studies;Religions;

Courses

2025-26 Courses

  • Spoken Fren Cltrl Contxt
    FREN 310 (Fall 2025)

2024-25 Courses

  • Dissertation
    AIAR 920 (Spring 2025)
  • Film and Fiction
    FREN 410 (Spring 2025)
  • Myths Theater + Pop Culture
    FREN 285 (Spring 2025)

2023-24 Courses

  • Cultural History
    FREN 420 (Spring 2024)
  • French Cultural & Lit History
    FREN 552 (Spring 2024)
  • Independent Study
    FREN 499 (Spring 2024)
  • Internship
    FREN 593 (Fall 2023)
  • Theatre for Social Justice
    FREN 459 (Fall 2023)
  • Theatre for Social Justice
    FREN 559 (Fall 2023)
  • Topics in French Culture
    FREN 444 (Fall 2023)
  • Topics in French Culture
    FREN 544 (Fall 2023)

2022-23 Courses

  • Film and Fiction
    FREN 410 (Spring 2023)
  • Internship
    FREN 593 (Spring 2023)
  • Pronunciation and Conversation
    FREN 301 (Spring 2023)
  • Thesis
    FREN 910 (Spring 2023)
  • Francophone Culture/Traditions
    FREN 445 (Fall 2022)
  • Francophone Culture/Traditions
    FREN 545 (Fall 2022)
  • Spoken Fren Cltrl Contxt
    FREN 310 (Fall 2022)
  • Thesis
    FREN 910 (Fall 2022)

2021-22 Courses

  • French Cultural & Lit History
    FREN 552 (Spring 2022)
  • Independent Study
    FREN 599 (Spring 2022)
  • Independent Study
    FREN 699 (Spring 2022)
  • Internship
    FREN 593 (Spring 2022)
  • Practicum
    AIAR 694 (Spring 2022)
  • Spoken Fren Cltrl Contxt
    FREN 310 (Spring 2022)
  • Pronunciation and Conversation
    FREN 301 (Fall 2021)
  • Topics in French Culture
    FREN 444 (Fall 2021)
  • Topics in French Culture
    FREN 544 (Fall 2021)

2020-21 Courses

  • Francophone Culture/Traditions
    FREN 445 (Spring 2021)
  • Francophone Culture/Traditions
    FREN 545 (Spring 2021)
  • Honors Thesis
    FREN 498H (Spring 2021)
  • Spoken Fren Cltrl Contxt
    FREN 310 (Spring 2021)
  • French Speaking World
    FREN 160A1 (Fall 2020)
  • Honors Thesis
    FREN 498H (Fall 2020)
  • Topics in Francophone Studies
    FREN 447 (Fall 2020)
  • Topics in Francophone Studies
    FREN 547 (Fall 2020)

2019-20 Courses

  • French Speaking World
    FREN 160A1 (Fall 2019)
  • Topics in Sub-Saharan Africa
    FREN 557 (Fall 2019)

2018-19 Courses

  • Business French II
    FREN 434 (Spring 2019)
  • Business French II
    FREN 534 (Spring 2019)
  • Internship
    FREN 593 (Spring 2019)
  • Written Fren Cultr Contx
    FREN 320 (Spring 2019)
  • Business French I
    FREN 433 (Fall 2018)
  • Business French I
    FREN 533 (Fall 2018)
  • Spoken Fren Cltrl Contxt
    FREN 310 (Fall 2018)

2017-18 Courses

  • French Speaking World
    FREN 160A1 (Spring 2018)
  • Written Fren Cultr Contx
    FREN 320 (Spring 2018)
  • Francophone Culture/Traditions
    FREN 445 (Fall 2017)
  • Francophone Culture/Traditions
    FREN 545 (Fall 2017)
  • French Speaking World
    FREN 160A1 (Fall 2017)

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

  • Mouzet, A. (2023). Moïse et la Terre promise. Le mythe et les imaginaires de l'Atlantique noir. Classiques Garnier.
    More info
    This monograph explores the itinerary of the myth of Moses and the Promised Land within the political, religious, and literary imaginaries of the Black Atlantic. The book analyzes the flows of transatlantic cultural exchange between Africa and its diasporas as revealed by the « devenir-mythe » of Moses. By articulating the concepts of Black Atlantic and Literary Atlantic, the author argues for elaborating a library of the Literary Black Atlantic. Based on a corpus of Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone novels, the book proposes to see how the reversal of the biblical myth of Moses allows writers to question its liberating potential and the power of literature with regard to Black experiences.

Chapters

  • Mouzet, A. (2020). Womanhood 2.0: A Visual-Verbal-Virtual Redefinition of Womanhood by Janet Mock. In Writing her/self in text and image in Anglophone women’s life writing.
  • Mouzet, A. (2018).

    Esthétique de l’Atlantique Noir - Métaphore océanique et traversée des imaginaires

    . In Vers une histoire littéraire transatlantique(pp 147-161). doi:10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-07747-3.p.0147
  • Mouzet, A. (2018). Esthétique de l’Atlantique noir: métaphore océanique et traversée des imaginaires. In Vers une histoire littéraire transatlantique.(pp 147-161). Classiques Garnier.
  • Mouzet, A. (2018). Rewriting the Bible : The Jesus Figure in Black Atlantic Women’s Literature. In Black Resistance in the Americas: Slavery and Its Aftermath. Routledge.
  • Mouzet, A. (2018). “Deriding the I: Tales of Darkness and Laughter in Janet Frame’s An Angel at My Table. In Janet Frame in Focus: Women analyze the works of New Zealand writer(pp 62-81). McFarland.
  • Mouzet, A., Moura, J., & Clavaron, Y. (2017). A la recherche de l'Afrique perdue: la quête transtlantique des Amériques noires [Searching for the lost Africa: The transatlantic quest of black Americas]. In Histoire des lettres transatlantiques. Les relations littéraires Afrique-Amérique(pp pp. 121-132). Bécherel: Les Perséides.

Journals/Publications

  • Mouzet, A. (2020). Terre promise ? Terre maudite ? Le mythe de l’exode et la quête d’une (post)mémoire transatlantique dans La saison de l’ombre de Léonora Miano (2013). ELA Etudes Littéraires Africaines, 13.
  • Mouzet, A. (2021).

    Édouard Glissant : une écriture du marronnage pour pe(a)nser les mémoires de l’esclavage

    . Fabula. doi:10.58282/acta.13960
    More info
    Cet article est un compte-rendu du livre : Loïc Céry, Édouard Glissant, une traversée de l'esclavage, I. Étude critique : premier tome. Rassembler les mémoires, Paris : Éditions de l'Institut du Tout‑Monde, coll. "Idées", 2020, 492 p., EAN 9782491641009 & II. Étude critique : second tome. Renverser les gouffres, Paris : Éditions de l'Institut du Tout‑Monde, coll. "Idées", 2020, 574 p., EAN 9782491641016.
  • Mouzet, A. (2021). Les cartes digitales SIG: Piste pour le renouvellement de l’enseignement-apprentissage du FLE. The French Review.
  • Mouzet, A. (2017). Folie et trauma dans Un jour de grand soleil sur les montagnes de l'Ethiopie de Pius Ngandu Nkashama [Madness and Trauma in Pius Ngandu Nkashama's Novel Un jour de grand soleil". Itinéraires LTC.
  • Mouzet, A. (2018). L'Ici, l'Ailleurs et le motif de la Terre promise au miroir des écritures transnationales [The Here, The Now, and the motif of the Promised Land in Transnational Writings]. Nouvelles Etudes Francophones.
  • Mouzet, A. (2017). Les acteurs noirs du cinéma français: de l'ombre à la lumière? [Black actors in French Cinema: From Shadows to Spotlight?]. Voix Plurielles, 14(2), pp.50-61. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.26522/vp.v14i2.1640

Proceedings Publications

  • Mouzet, A. (2017, JUNE). Magie blanche, magie noire, magie grise : Figures de la sorcière dans le roman féminin guadeloupéen [White magic, Black Magic, Gray Magic: the Witch Figure in Guadeloupian Women's Novels]. In Liitérature et Magie: Figures, Formes, Regards Critiques, University of Western Paris-Nanterre.

Presentations

  • Mouzet, A. (2024). Forum Theater and Literacy. World of Words. College of Education/University of Arizona.
  • Mouzet, A. (2024, September/Fall). Pour une critique littéraire écoartistique. Justice environnementale et résistance culturelle: l'Afrique et la Polynésie. University of Arizona.
  • Mouzet, A. (2023). “Imaginaires de la forêt sacrée et esthétique de l’interconnexion chez Ben Okri et Véronique Tadjo.” [“Imaginaries of Sacred Groves and the Aesthetic of Interconnection in Ben Okri’s and Véronique Tadjo’s works,” . Seminar "Qu'est-ce qu'un écosystème littéraire?", University Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle (invited).
  • Mouzet, A. (2023, 27-30 May).

    “Remettre les corps noirs à la verticale : poétique(s) du corps noir esclavisé dans Humus de Fabienne Kanor, Chango, el gran puta de Manuel Zapata Olivella et O Crime do Cais do Valongo.” Panel “Chroniques noires : délier les lianes de la couleur de peau pour une nouvelle mémoire des origines.” [“Black Chronicles: untying the vines of skin color for a new memory of origins.”] 

    . APFUCC Symposium. Toronto, Canada: York University.
  • Mouzet, A. (2023, November). “Ethnoforesterie et (in)justice(s) environnementale(s) dans En compagnie des hommes (2017) de Véronique Tadjo et The Famished Road  (1991) de Ben Okri” [“Ethnoforestry and Environmental (In)justice(s) in  En compagnie des hommes(2017) by Véronique Tadjo and The Famished Road  (1991) by Ben Okri”]. APELA Colloquium. Dakar: University Cheikh Anta Diop.
  • Mouzet, A. (2022, November). Slave Ships and Transatlantic Memory of the Slave Trade in Literature of the Black Atlantic. PAMLA 2022. Los Angeles.
  • Mouzet, A. (2021, Nov/Fall). La foule des esclavisés dans Blonde Roots, O Crime do Cais do Valongo et Esclaves : enjeux esthétiques, éthiques et politiques. Congrès international Société Française de Littérature Générale et Comparée. Paris, France, University of Sorbonne Nouvelle: https://sflgc.org/.
  • Mouzet, A. (2018, Fall). « Reaffirming Realness . S’écrire au-delà du genre : une féminité 2.0.». Texte, image et écriture de soi dans les récits de vie féminins de langue anglaise. FAAAM International Symposium, 28-29 September 2018, University Paris Nanterre, France.. Nanterre: University Western Paris.

Reviews

  • Mouzet, A. (2018. Aesthetic Citizenship: Immigration and Theatre in Twenty-First-Century Paris, by Emine Fişek(pp 509-512).

Others

  • Mouzet, A. (2020, February). Les différences ethniques et religieuses dans la littérature: de Montaigne à Le Clezio. https://www.fabula.org/revue/document12662.php
  • Mouzet, A. (2020, September). Mémoire(s) de l’indicible : quand littérature et cinéma brisent les silences de l’Histoire. https://www.fabula.org/revue/document13091.php

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