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
Mireille Rebeiz received her doctorate in Francophone Studies from Florida State University in 2012. She has a master’s degree in International Law and Human Rights from Université de Rouen in France, and a bachelor’s degree in law from Saint Joseph University in Lebanon. She came to Dickinson College in 2018. She has held faculty positions at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and Stony Brook University in New York. Her teaching and research 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. Her first book, "Gendering Civil War. Francophone Women’s Writing in Lebanon", for which she 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. Her second book examines Hezbollah’s unlawful activities in Lebanon since 1982, and the manuscript is currently under consideration. Dr. Rebeiz’s most recent research project focuses on the Beirut barracks bombing of 1983 that killed 241 American servicemembers and 58 French parachutists. In this project, she explores gaps in Lebanese, French, and American histories and writes veterans’ oral stories. In addition to her book, Dr. Rebeiz has published several peer reviewed articles in French and English in national and international journals. She is also finishing her second doctorate in international law and terrorism at Penn State Dickinson Law.
Education
- B.A., Université Saint-Joseph Jésuite, Lebanon, 1999
- M.A., Université de Rouen, France, 2004
- Ph.D., Florida State University, 2012
2023-2024 Academic Year
Fall 2023
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.
FREN 102 Elementary French
Complete first-year course. Intensive study of the fundamentals of French grammar, with special attention given to pronunciation and oral expression. Cultural readings in the context of language acquisition.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent.
FREN 401 Rsch Sem in Fr & Francoph St
The capstone class for French and Francophone studies majors, this course builds on previous coursework to hone students’ research, writing and reading skills. In the first two-thirds of the class, students will study a topic or theme selected by the professor and examine scholarly publications and research methods related to the topic. The last third of the class will be dedicated to researching a well-developed thesis related to the course topic and completing a substantial research project. This research project allows students to explore an aspect of the course that particularly interests them. Students will complete shorter research and writing assignments in the first nine weeks of the class that will act as stages to prepare them for the final paper or project. Students will present their research to faculty and students in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the end of the semester.Prerequisite: FREN 363 or FREN 364
Spring 2024
FREN 102 Elementary French
Complete first-year course. Intensive study of the fundamentals of French grammar, with special attention given to pronunciation and oral expression. Cultural readings in the context of language acquisition.Prerequisite: 101 or the equivalent.
MEST 221 Women of the Middle East
Cross-listed with FREN 364-01 and WGSS 221-01.
WGSS 221 Women of the Middle East
Cross-listed with FREN 364-01 and MEST 221-01.
FREN 364 Women of the Middle East
Cross-listed with MEST 221-01 and WGSS 221-01. The condition of women writers in post-colonial, predominantly Arab countries is heavily marked by the dual legacy of the region's Muslim heritage and the cultural imprint of former colonizers, which are intertwined with ethnic, religious, linguistic and other differences that in varying ways traverse the region as a whole. The tensions associated with these differences erupted in wars in some countries and violence and discrimination against women in some others. Several women writers stood up against injustice and sexism by writing to defend women's rights and render justice. Their writing served to bear witness and preserve the victim's memory. This class focuses on narratives (texts and films) from the following countries: Algeria, Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon.