Honorine Rouiller
Senior Lecturer
honorine.rouiller@vanderbilt.edu
Office Location
Furman 206
Office Hours
Mondays and Wednesdays from 12:15 to 1PM and by appointment.
Education
PhD. Florida State University
MA, University of Arizona
BA, Université du Maine, France
Specializations
French and Francophone comics studies; memory studies; the Algerian War and its aftermath in France
Bio
Born and raised in France, Honorine Rouiller is a Senior Lecturer at Vanderbilt University. Examining graphic narratives, her comparative approach explores the ways in which discrepancies between official historical accounts and family memories inform identity construction in contemporary France. Her dissertation entitled “The Different Legacies of the Algerian War in French Transgenerational (Auto)Biographical Graphic Narratives,” examines (auto)biographical graphic narratives published between 2011 and 2017 to unpack how the Algerian War (1954-1962) is, in France, at the heart of the social fracture, separating the majority ethnic population with immigrant minorities and victims of social exclusion. In her corpus, she examines three groups—French soldiers, pieds noirs and North African (im)migrants—analyzing life writing that combat the silences of the French government and the official memory that it promoted since the colonization of Algeria. By sharing the personal experiences of their elders, each author supports a more pluralistic French society, challenges existing definitions of “Frenchness,” and advocates for more transparency in France regarding the events and the aftermath of the Algerian War by breaking the silences encouraged by the French government.
Publications
Rouiller, Honorine. “North African Immigration in France, the Aftermath of the Algerian War in graphic narratives Les Mohamed and Une Famille Nombreuse,” Journal of European Popular Culture, 14:2 (2023), pp. 125-41.
Rouiller, Honorine and Bourget, Carine. « Intégrer la banlieue en FLE débutant avec Filme ton quartier. » French Review 92.2 (2018), pp. 149-161.