...Nabil Boudraa [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2023 Maghreb interdisciplinarity linguistic diversity postcoloniality The field of French and Francophone studies in US academia has evolved a lot...

... been known as interdisciplinarity and is now sometimes referred to as transdisciplinarity, terms that emphasize the connection or bridging of disciplines that retain their specificity, as if one could live in the interstices between literature and art history, religion and music, or philosophy...

... was teetering on the edge of a state of interdisciplinarity without disciplines, so keen were some of the speakers to reduce all disciplines to issues of language. In the remainder of this essay, I will focus not so much on unity but on moments of dissent, uncertainty, misunderstanding or simply...

... today, but pioneering when she embarked on each of her projects. Her work was interdisciplinary long before interdisciplinarity became a widespread approach in academic scholarship. Ferguson’s ambitious Literary France: The Making of a Culture (1987, repr. 1991) explores the unique and complex...

... to interdisciplinarity and undertake the difficult task of setting up dialogues between fields; once again, this will require working across and against institutional barriers. We can question the practices and norms that structure the way we do our research: by imagining alternatives to the peer review system, with its...

... of these departments evolved from philology departments, “the study of the history of language, including the historical study of literary texts.” 2 The common elements? Literature and language. However, as these departments have evolved with the times, greater emphasis has been put on interdisciplinarity...