Ennaili, Leila

Publications

• “Transitioning Out of the Great War through Cinema: Self-Reflection and Distancing in L’Atlantide (1921) by Jacques Feyder” French Politics, Culture & Society. 40:1, 26–47, 2022.
• "Accented Mappings of France in a Globalized World: Le Havre (2011) and Samba (2014) Through the Lens of Cinéma-monde." Eds. Michael Gott & Thibaut Schilt. Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French, Edinburgh University Press, 216-236, 2018. 
  
• "Filmer les migrants à Calais : une représentation aux frontières de la mémoire et de l'Europe." Eds. Marianne Bessy and Carole Salmon. Racines et déracinements au grand écran: trajectoires migratoires dans le cinéma français du XXIème siècle. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 148-169, 2016.
• "Galadio de Didier Daeninckx et la question de l'identité nationale." Modern & Contemporary France, 23:1, 17-33, 2015.
• "Autopsy d'Un Sujet français." Nouvelles Études Francophones, 28:2, 161-176, 2013.

Presentations

• “Representing the Migrants Experience at the Border: The Interplay of Photographs, Writings and Temporalities in Mathieu Pernot’s Les migrants.” Popular Culture Association 2022 Conference, April 14, 2022.
• “En Thérapie sur le petit écran : réparer la nation après les attentats.” 20^th and 21^st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Pittsburgh, PA, March 24-26, 2022.
• “Going against the Current: Representing the ‘Migrant Crisis’ in La mer à l’envers.” The American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, April 8-11, 2021.

• Ph. D. – French Studies – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2011
• Master's Degree in English Language, Literature and Civilization - Université de Metz, France, 2003

Border studies, immigration in France, 20th and 21st cent. French Literature, French colonial culture, Francophone literature and cinema.