Carla Calargé is an associate professor of French and Francophone studies at Florida Atlantic University. She specializes in the Francophone Arab world and has published numerous articles on the literature and cinema of North Africa and the Near East. She coedited a special issue of the Cincinnati Romance Review on the work of Assia Djebar and is also coeditor of a collection of essays titled Haiti and the Americas. Calargé’s book examining the cultural memorialization of the Lebanese civil war is slated for publication in 2017.