Faculty Profile
Mireille Rebeiz
(she/her/hers)Associate Professor of French & Francophone and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies (2018)
Contact Information
Bosler Hall Room 218
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mireille-rebeiz-ph-d-69b748147/
Bio
I am Chair of Middle East Studies and Associate Professor of Francophone Studies & Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. I received my first Doctorate (PhD) in Francophone Studies from Florida State University and my second doctorate (SJD) in International Law from Penn State Dickinson Law. I also hold a Master’s degree in International Law and Human Rights from Université de Rouen in France, and a Bachelor’s degree in Law from Université Saint-Joseph in Lebanon. My teaching and research are interdisciplinary and focus on the intersectionality of law, gender, sexuality, oral history, and trauma in the context of armed conflicts with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa. I have written and successfully published monographs, peer-reviewed essays in French and English, and editorials in national and international presses. My first book, "Gendering Civil War. Francophone Women’s Writing in Lebanon", for which I earned the AAUW American Fellowship, appeared with Edinburgh University Press in 2022. Nominated for the John Leonard Prize, this book examines French-language narratives published between the 1970s and the present day by Lebanese women authors writing on the Lebanese civil war of 1975-1991. My second book examines Hezbollah’s unlawful activities in Lebanon since 1982, and the manuscript is currently under consideration. My most recent research project focuses on the Beirut barracks bombing of 1983 that killed 241 American servicemembers and 58 French parachutists. In this project, I explore gaps in Lebanese, French, and American histories and write veterans’ oral stories.
Education
- B.A., Université Saint-Joseph Jésuite, Lebanon, 1999
- M.A., Université de Rouen, France, 2004
- Ph.D., Florida State University, 2012
2024-2025 Academic Year
Fall 2024
FYSM 100 First-Year Seminar
The First-Year Seminar (FYS) introduces students to Dickinson as a "community of inquiry" by developing habits of mind essential to liberal learning. Through the study of a compelling issue or broad topic chosen by their faculty member, students will:
- Critically analyze information and ideas
- Examine issues from multiple perspectives
- Discuss, debate and defend ideas, including one's own views, with clarity and reason
- Develop discernment, facility and ethical responsibility in using information, and
- Create clear academic writing
The small group seminar format of this course promotes discussion and interaction among students and their professor. In addition, the professor serves as students' initial academic advisor. This course does not duplicate in content any other course in the curriculum and may not be used to fulfill any other graduation requirement.
WGSS 100 Intro to WGSS
This course offers an introduction to central concepts, questions and debates in gender and sexuality studies from US, Women of Color, queer and transnational perspectives. Throughout the semester we will explore the construction and maintenance of norms governing sex, gender, and sexuality, with an emphasis on how opportunity and inequality operate through categories of race, ethnicity, class, ability and nationality. After an introduction to some of the main concepts guiding scholarship in the field of feminist studies (the centrality of difference; social and political constructions of gender and sex; representation; privilege and power; intersectionality; globalization; transnationalism), we will consider how power inequalities attached to interlocking categories of difference shape key feminist areas of inquiry, including questions of: work, resource allocation, sexuality, queerness, reproduction, marriage, gendered violence, militarization, consumerism, resistance and community sustainability.