UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — David Fieni, assistant professor of French at the State University of New York, Oneonta, will present “Dreyfus in Algeria," at 12:15 p.m. on Monday, April 1, in 102 Kern Building on Penn State's University Park campus.

Fieni is the author of "Decadent Orientalisms: Configuring the Decay of Colonial Modernity in French and Arabic" (forthcoming 2019) and translator of Laurent Dubreuil’s "Empire of Language" (2013). Fieni has co-edited special journal issues on “The Global Checkpoint” and on the Moroccan writer Abdelkebir Khatibi. His work has appeared in diacritics, boundary 2, PMLA, and Expressions Maghrébines.

This event is a part of the Comparative Literature Luncheon lecture series, a weekly, informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty and other members of the University community. Each week the event begins at 12:15 p.m. – lunch is provided. At 12:30 p.m. there will be a presentation, by a visitor or a local speaker, on a topic related to any humanities discipline. All students, faculty, colleagues and friends are welcome. For a full list of Comparative Literature lunches, visit http://complit.la.psu.edu/news-events/comp-lit-luncheon-series. 

This event is sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature, the Center for Global Studies, the Weiss Chair of the Humanities, and the African Studies Program.