Professor of English
Office
Moreland 340
Phone
541-737-1656
Email
lrice@oregonstate.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of Washington 1976
M.A. Kent State University 1971
B.A. Ohio State University 1968
Areas of specialization
Comparative Literature: Postcolonial Cultural Studies, Translation,
Literacy, and Women in International Development.
Selected publications
Books:
My Men by Malika
Mokeddem. Translator / co-translator
Karim Hamdy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming
2006/7.
Of Irony and Empire: Islam, the West and the
Transcultural Invention of Africa. Albany: SUNY Press,
forthcoming 2006/7.
Century of Locusts by Malika Mokeddem. Translator
/ co-translator Karim Hamdy. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,
2006.
Departures. Translations of and Essays on Isabelle Eberhardt.
Co-author, co-editor, and co-translator Karim Hamdy. San Francisco:
City Lights Press, 1994.
Recent Articles:
“Situating Senior Women in the Literacy Landscape of North Africa” forthcoming in a special issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language on “Language and Gender in the Mediterranean,” 189 (2007). Co-author Karim Hamdy. (32 pp.)
Salih, Tayyib” and “Moqaddam, Malika” in the Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East, Thomson Gale, November 2007.
“Refracting an Orientalist Lens: The Instability and Performance in Moufida Tlatli’s The Silences of the Palace” in Women and Performance 17, 1 (March 2007), 37-58.
Said's Impact on Arab Intellectuals - Reverberations of Said's
Thought in the Current Debates over Islam and US-Muslim/Arab
Relations." Co-author Karim Hamdy. In Paradoxical Citizenship:
Edward Said. Edited by Silvia Nagy-Zekmi. Lexington Press,
2006.
"Comment trouver des financements? Comment élaborer une
proposition? Co-author Karim Hamdy. In Société
civile et développement durable edited by Moha Ennaji
and Fatima Sadiqi. Morocco: Publications de L'Association Fes-Sais,
2005: 102-111.
Articles on : Fatima Mernissi, Moufida Tlatli, Raja Amari, Azza
Ghanmi, Jalillah Bakkar, The Study of Gender, The Moudawana, Le
Centre de Recherches, d'Etudes, de Documentation et d'Information
sur la Femme (CREDIF) and L'Association des Femmes Tunisiennes pour
la Recherche et le Développement (AFTURD). Encyclopedia
of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, 2nd ed.,
MacMillan, 2004.
"Of Heterotopias and Ethnoscapes: The Production of Space in
Postcolonial North Africa," Critical Matrix (2003), 36-75.
"Critical Appropriations," International Journal of Francophone
Studies 4, 3 (2002), 128-145.
"Landscapes from the Interior: the Maghreb of the Mind in Mustapha
Tlili, Brick Oussaid and Malika Mokeddem," in Maghrebian
Mosaic: A Literature in Transition (Lynne Rienner, 2001),
119-149.
"African Conscripts/European Conflicts: Race, Memory and the
Lessons of War," Cultural Critique (Spring 2000), 109-49.
Selected grants, awards and
honors
OSU Women of Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to improving the status of women, 2007.
International Service Award, Oregon State University, 2006
Center for the Humanities Fellowships, Oregon State University,
1990 / 2005.
American Institute for Maghrib Studies Research grant (Morocco and
Tunisia) 2004.
Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange,
Speaking Tour, 2002.
Fulbright Regional Research grant (Tunisia & Morocco)
2001-2002.
Principal Investigator and co-writer, State Department University
Affiliations Grant (OSU/ Tunisia), 1998-2001 ($313,000).
Recognition Award, Equal Opportunities Program, 1994.
C. Warren Hovland Service Award, College of Liberal Arts, 1993.
Principal Investigator and writer, NEH Summer Seminar on "The Epic
Roots of Non-Western Literature." 1990. ($107,000)
Principal Investigator and co-writer, Fulbright Group Project
Abroad: Yemen Arab Republic and Tunisia 1989.
($97,000).
Burlington Northern Award for Faculty
Excellence, 1986.
Bunting Fellow, Harvard University, 1984.
