Jessica Tindira

Visiting Assistant Professor of French

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Biography

Dr. Tindira teaches all levels of French and has recently led special topics courses on the Algerian War and on “home” in nineteenth and twentieth century French literature. Her research focuses on representations of family in contemporary francophone novels. After graduating from Kenyon College with a BA in French Literature and English, Dr. Tindira participated in the Teaching Assistant Program in France, teaching English to French students at a school in Strasbourg for one year. She did her graduate studies in French at Indiana University. As a Future Faculty Teaching Fellow at IU, she worked on a community outreach program at Butler University through which students of French mentored French-speaking elementary school students in Indianapolis. She earned her PhD in May 2019. 


Dr. Tindira enjoys pursuing research related to the topics of her classes. For example, she published “La fille de son père: Secrecy, Love, and Writing in Assia Djebar’s Nulle part dans la maison de mon père” in The French Review in May 2019. She looks forward to chairing a panel entitled (Re)Creating Conceptions of Home at the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in March 2021.