Associate Professor Amy Hubbell
Associate Professor
School of Languages and Cultures
Deputy Associate Dean (Academic)
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
+61 7 336 56890
Researcher biography
Amy is a specialist in Francophone autobiographies of exile and trauma. She is author of Hoarding Memory: Covering the Wounds of the Algerian War (U of Nebraska P, 2020), Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, Identity and Exile (U of Nebraska P, 2015), and A la recherche d'un emploi: Business French in a Communicative Context (Hackett, 2017). She has co-edited several volumes including Places of Traumatic Memory - a Global Context (Palgrave Macmillan 2020), The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art (2013), and Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film and Comic Art in French Autobiography (U of Nebraska P, 2011). She is currently working on her new project, Terrorism Testimony: French Narratives of Survival.
Books
Hubbell, Amy , van Beukering, Jorien , Barnett, Jenny , Brown, Jorgia and Alonso, Maïa (2021). Death of a Dream. Algeria 1958. Friedberg, Bavaria: EditionAtlantiS.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2020). Hoarding memory: covering the wounds of the Algerian War. Lincoln, Nebraska, United States: University of Nebraska. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv17vf58z
Guiraud, Nicole (Original author), Hubbell, Amy L. (Translator) and Nabulsi, Muhib (Translator) (2017). Algeria 1962: diary of the Apocalypse. English ed. Friedberg, Germany: Edition Atlantis.
Hubbell, Amy (2015). Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, identity and exile. Nebraska, United States: University of Nebraska Press.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2011). À la recherche d’un emploi: Business French in a communicative context. Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.: Focus Publishing; R. Pullins.
Book Chapters
Hubbell, Amy L. and van Beukering, Jorien (2022). Sustaining the memory of colonial Algeria through food. ‘Going Native?’ Settler Colonialism and Food. (pp. 221-245) edited by Ronald Ranta, Alejandro Colás and Daniel Monterescu. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-96268-5_11
Hubbell, Amy L. (2021). Circulating bodies: retelling the trauma of the Algerian War through photography and art. Truth in visual media: aesthetics, ethics and politics. (pp. 36-57) edited by Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press.
Hubbell, Amy and van Beukering, Jorien (2021). Translating Maïa Alonso’s death of a dream. Death of a Dream, Algeria 1958: A True Novel (Collection France-Algérie). (pp. 13-14) Hesse, Germany: Edition Atlantis.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2020). Remembering the 5 July 1962 Massacre in Oran, Algeria. Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 219-240) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_11
Hubbell, Amy L., Akagawa, Natsuko, Rojas-Lizana, Sol and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Preface. Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context. (pp. v-vi) edited by Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4
Hubbell, Amy L., Rojas-Lizana, Sol , Akagawa, Natsuko and Pohlman, Annie (2020). Acknowledging trauma in a global context: narrative, memory and place. Places of traumatic memory: a global context. (pp. 1-12) edited by Amy Lynn Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana and Annie Pohlman. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_1
Hubbell, Amy (2015). Accumulating Algeria: Recurrent images in Pied-Noir visual works. Framing French Culture. (pp. 209-227) edited by Natalie Edwards, Ben McCann and Peter Poiana. Adelaide, South Australia: University of Adelaide Press.
El Nossery, Névine and Hubbell, Amy (2013). Transmitting the unspeakable through literature and art. The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art. (pp. 1-20) edited by Névine El Nossery and Amy L. Hubbell. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hubbell, Amy (2013). Separation and return in the intellectual work of the Pieds-Noirs. The Contemporary Francophone African Intellectual. (pp. 71-92) edited by Christopher Hogarth and Natalie Edwards. Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2013). The words that say it: Pied-Noir women confronting Algerian memory. Women Taking Risks in Contemporary Autobiographical Narratives. (pp. 103-116) edited by Anna Rocca and Kenneth Reeds. Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hubbell, Amy (2013). Unspoken Algeria: Transmitting traumatic memories of the Algerian war. The Unspeakable: Representations of Trauma in Francophone Literature and Art. (pp. 305-324) edited by Nevine El Nossery and Amy L. Hubbell. Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2011). L'Algerie recurrente et l'Algerie errante dans l'ecriture des Francaises d'Algerie. Frictions et devenirs dans les écritures migrantes au féminin: Enracinements et renégociations. (pp. 29-47) edited by Anna Rocca and Névine El Nossery. Saarbrücken, Germany: Éditions Universitaires Européennes.
Edwards, Natalie, Hubbell, Amy L. and Miller, Ann (2011). Introduction: Textual visual selves. Textual and visual selves: Photography, film and comic art in French autobiography. (pp. 1-15) edited by Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell and Amy Miller. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2011). Viewing the past through a ‘nostalgeric’ lens: Pied-Noir photo-documentaries. Textual and visual selves: Photography, film and comic art in French autobiography. (pp. 167-187) edited by Natalie Edwards, Amy L. Hubbell and Amy Miller. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press.
Hubbell, Amy (2010). Dual, Divided, and Doubled Selves: Three Women Writing between France and Algeria. This 'self' which is not one : Women's life writing in French. (pp. 35-46) edited by Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth. Newcastle, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Hubbell, Amy (2009). Returning to the Baobab fou: (Dis)integrating roots in Ken Bugul’s and Marie Cardinal’s autobiographies. Emerging perspectives on Ken Bugul: From alternative choices to oppositional practices. (pp. 81-99) edited by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Jeanne-Sarah de Larquier. Trenton, N. J.: Africa World Press.
Hubbell, Amy (2008). Slipping home in Marie Cardinal's Ecoutez la mer. Gender and Displacement: "Home" in Contemporary Francophone Women's Autobiography. (pp. 34-45) edited by Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth. Newcastle, U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Journal Articles
Hubbell, Amy L. (2023). Crowding out the Algerian War in French Memorial Books. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 23 (2), 221-240. doi: 10.3138/diaspora.23.2.2023.07.25
Hubbell, Amy, Hardwick, Joe, Barnett, Jenny Davis and Hanna, Barbara E. (2023). Un.siting French Studies. Australian Journal of French Studies, 60 (2), 113-121. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.2023.11
Hubbell, Amy (2020). Reciprocating care in French survivor narratives from the Algerian War. Australian Journal of French Studies, 57 (3), 322-336. doi: 10.3828/ajfs.2020.28
Hubbell, Amy L. (2020). Discomforting bodies: French survivor testimony from the Algerian War. Contemporary French Civilization, 45 (3-4), 351-363. doi: 10.3828/cfc.2020.21
Michel-Chich, Danielle and Hubbell, Amy L. (2020). Excerpts from Letter to Zohra D.. Exchanges: Journal of Literary Translation.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2019). Shifting positions: amputation, prosthesis, and the embodied memory of Algeria. Auto/Biography Studies, 34 (2), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/08989575.2019.1592366
Hubbell, Amy L. (2018). Scandalous memory: terrorism testimonial from the Algerian war. Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, 22 (1), 49-57. doi: 10.1080/17409292.2018.1452822
Hubbell, Amy (2018). Layering over the wounds of Algeria in contemporary Pied-Noir art. EuropeNow: Journal for the Council for European Studies.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2018). Nos années rouges. The Journal of North African Studies, 23 (3), 548-549. doi: 10.1080/13629387.2018.1432016
Hubbell, Amy (2018). Made in Algeria: mapping layers of colonial memory into contemporary visual art. French Cultural Studies, 29 (1), 8-18. doi: 10.1177/0957155817739751
Hardwick, Joe and Hubbell, Amy (2016). Tyrannies of Distance, Perils of Proximity: Time, Space and Virtuality in the French and Francophone World. Australian Journal of French Studies, 53 (1-2), 3-18. doi: 10.3828/AJFS.2016.01
Hubbell, Amy L. (2015). Filling in the Void: Leila Sebbar's Collective Archaeology of Origins. Expressions Maghrebines, 14 (1), 41-54. doi: 10.1353/exp.2015.0003
Hubbell, Amy L. (2014). Accumulated testimony: layering French girls' diaries on the Algerian exodus. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 38 (2), 1-16. doi: 10.4148/2334-4415.1011
Edwards, Natalie and Hubbell, Amy L. (2014). Self and stuff: accumulation in Francophone literature and art. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 38 (2), 2.1-2.5. doi: 10.4148/2334-4415.1813
Hubbell, Amy (2013). (In)edible Algeria: transmitting Pied-Noir nostalgia through food. Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies, 10 (2), 1-18. doi: 10.5130/portal.v10i2.2991
Hubbell, Amy L. (2013). Reeck, Laura. Writerly identities in Beur fiction and beyond. French Review, 86 (5), 1040-1041.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2012). The past is present: Pied-Noir returns to Algeria. Nottingham French Studies, 51 (1), 66-77. doi: 10.3366/nfs.2012.0007
Hubbell, Amy L. (2011). (Re)turning to ruins: Pied-Noir visual returns to Algeria. Modern and Contemporary France, 19 (2), 147-161. doi: 10.1080/09639489.2011.565162
Edwards, Natalie, Hogarth, Christopher and Hubbell, Amy (2011). Introduction – Women’s self-narrative across the Francophone world. Women in French Studies, Special Issue, 11-13.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2010). Redouane, Najib, et Yvette Benayoun-Szmidt, ed., Assia Djebar. The French Review, 83 (5), 1070-1071.
Hubbell, Amy (2009). Graebner, Seth. History's Place: Nostalgia and the City in French Algerian Literature. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. The French Review, 82 (4), 836-837.
Hubbell, Amy (2009). Ireland, Susan and Patrice Proulx, eds. Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 33 (2), 391-393. doi: 10.4148/2334-4415.1707
Powell, Douglas A., Hubbell, Amy L., Chapman, Benjamin and Jacob, Casey, J. (2009). New media for food safety. Food Technology Magazine, 63 (1), 38-43.
Powell, Douglas A., Hubbell, Amy L., Chapman, Benjamin and Jacob, Casey J. (2009). Newmedia for communicating food safety. Food Technology, 63 (1), 38-43.
Hubbell, Amy (2008). Genre Trouble in Nicole Brossard’s un livre. Women in French Studies, 116-123.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2008). "La valise ou le cercueil": un aller-retour dans la memoire des Pieds-Noirs. Revue Diasporas: histoire et sociétés, 12, 199-207.
Hubbell, Amy L. (2007). An amputated elsewhere: Sustaining and relieving the phantom limb of Algeria. Life Writing, 4 (2), 247-262. doi: 10.1080/14484520701559810
Hubbell, Amy (2007). Van Cauwelaert, Didier. One Way: A Novel. Trans. Mark Polizzotti. Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature, 31 (2), 478-480.
Hubbell, Amy (2007). Kelly, Debra. Autobiography and Independence: Selfhood and Creativity in North African Postcolonial Writing in French. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2005. The French Review, 80 (3), 669-669.
Hubbell, Amy (2007). The wounds of Algeria in Pied-Noir autobiography. Dalhousie French Studies, 81, 59-68.
Hubbell, Amy (2004). Looking back: Deconstructing postcolonial blindness in nostalgérie. CELAAN: Centre Etudes Litteratures Arts Afrique Nord, 3 (1-2), 85-95.
Hubbell, Amy (2000). The other other: Women as seen in Chocolat and Outremer. Ellipsis, 2, 62-71.