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Cajsa Zerhouni

Doctoral Student

Department of Languages and Literatures
Mail
cajsa.zerhouni@sprak.gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Cajsa Zerhouni

Doctoral student in Romance languages, specializing in Francophone literatures

My research interests revolve around questions of subjectivity and the forms this phenomenon may assume in a literary representation.

In my doctoral dissertation on Assia Djebar’s oeuvre, I examine how the author articulates the emergence of subjectivity in her work, focusing on representations of sound and the bond between mother and child in early infancy.

Keywords: subjectivity, sound studies, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, world literature studies

I teach literature courses at the undergraduate and advanced levels in French, and I have previously worked as a translator from French and English.

Since January 2026, I am editorial assistant of Recherche littéraire/Literary Research, Association internationale de littérature comparée / International Comparative Literature Association (AILC-ICLA)

Together with Alice Duhan and Shuangyi Li, I am organizing the conference Worlding Francophone/graph: Literary and Artistic Modes of (Non)belonging / Mondialiser le francophone/graphe : modes littéraires et artistiques de (non-)appartenance, to be held in June 2026.