Mary-Angela Willis’ research has centered on the exploration of gender and national discourses in the fictional writings about the Lebanese Civil War by Lebanese women writers. Her interests continue in this vein, within the scope of postmodern feminist literary and cultural theories of embodiment, subjectivity and sexuality, postcolonial literature and film theory, and diaspora studies.

Ph.D. in Francophone Literature, University of Alabama, U. S. A., 2001.

M.A. in Francophone Literature, University of Alabama, U. S. A., 1994.

B.A. in International Relations and French (double major), University of Alabama, U. S. A., 1992.

Articles in Books

Willis, M. A. (2004) La guerre civile et le role de la femme. D. B. Heistad, ed., Evelyne Accad: Explorations. Paris: Harmattan.

Willis, M. A. (2003) Gender, space, and nation in Lebanese francophone fiction. K. Salhim, ed., Francophone Post-colonial Cultures: A Critical Reader, pp. 64-76, United Kingdom: Lexington Academic Books.