Maëlle Zemirline is a PhD student in French Literature, and a Dean’s Distinguished Graduate Fellow in Arts & Sciences. Her dissertation focuses on Classical reception and reinterpretation in Francophone literatures of the Maghreb and the Caribbean.

 

Maëlle earned a BA and MA in English literature from the Université du Mans in France, followed by the Agrégation in English literature from the French Ministry of Education. She obtained a second MA in French Language and Literature from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 2024, where her thesis focused on representations of domestic labor and care work in Francophone cinema.

 

Her recent projects include:

 

Co-curator of the exhibit Malraux Across the Atlantic: Art, Resistance and Cultural Diplomacy at Olin Library (November 2026).

Co-organizer of the Francophone Film Festival on Global Health (October 2026).

 

Author of « Marie Sainte Dédée Bazile: Genre, mythe et pouvoir dans les récits nationaux haïtiens » published in Legs et Littérature, n° 23 : “Féminisme(s) et Littérature(s)”, 2026.