Alison Rice

Alison Rice is Dr. William M. Scholl Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Notre Dame. Her books Time Signatures: Contextualizing Contemporary Francophone Autobiographical Writing from the Maghreb (Lexington Books, 2006) and Polygraphies: Francophone Women Writing Algeria (University of Virginia Press, 2012) focus on literature by authors from Algeria and Morocco who write in French. She is the author of a website featuring filmed interviews with eighteen worldwide women writers in Paris: www.francophonemetronomes.com.