Assistant Teaching Professor
Ph.D., French and Francophone Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, 2024
Master's degree, Littérature francaise et comparée, University of Montpellier, 2003
Maîtrise, Langue et littérature françaises, Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah-Fès,
2001
Contemporary French and Francophone literatures
Diasporic and transnational writing
Migrant autofiction
The poetics of exile
Memory, identity, and cultural transmission across colonial and postcolonial contexts
Engaging decolonial theory
French and Francophone cinema
Digital humanities approaches
Professor Hicham Bouhlal holds degrees from Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah (Morocco) and Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 (France), and completed doctoral training in French and Francophone Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
He is assistant teaching professor of French and Arabic at Towson University and has taught in secondary and higher education in both France and the United States. His research and teaching focus on twentieth- and twenty-first-century French and Francophone literatures, with particular emphasis on transnational and diasporic writing, autofiction and the poetics of exile. Adopting a comparative and transcultural approach across historical periods — from colonial travel writing to contemporary migrant narratives, including the afterlives of al-Andalus — his work engages decolonial perspectives, digital humanities and questions of memory, identity and cultural transmission.