yali@princeton.edu
Yassine is a Ph.D. student in the Department of French & Italian at Princeton University and was an Ivy Plus Exchange Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University in 2023-2024.
Born to Moroccan Amazigh parents and schooled in the beautiful region of Seine-et-Marne, France, Yassine studied French, Arabic, and Comparative Literature at Sorbonne Université and read for an MPhil in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford where he mainly concentrated on Enlightenment Studies, World Literature, Digital Humanities, and Disability Studies. He wrote his dissertation on 1750−1830 French and English female authors (Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte de Bournon, Comtesse de Malarme).
His current interests regard what he calls Classica Francophonia, a term he coined to refer to the rich and various ways in which contemporary Francophone authors, artists, and filmmakers from all over the world (with a focus on Africa and the Caribbean) engage with classical and canonical works of Europe. His thesis focuses on the reinventions of Homeric homecoming in the literature and films of the Interwar period (1918-1939).
Yassine also organized dozens of film screenings on campus and launched the Princeton French Film Festival that has attracted more than 3000 cinephiles since its inception. More information can be found here.
Read Yassine’s full bio on the Department of French & Italian website.
