Fadila Habchi is a lecturer in Ethnicity, Race and Migration. She received her B.A from the City College of New York and her PhD in African American Studies and American Studies from Yale University. Her research interests include the literature, culture and history of the Caribbean and Europe. She examines the relationship between space, race, gender and literature, colonial history, postcolonial memory and contemporary decolonial movements. She investigates memory projects of the Algerian war of liberation and of anti-slavery struggles in Martinique and in France.
Her current book project, Inclusive Empire: Urban Imaginaries and the Poetics of Being in Postcolonial France, examines France’s institutional and discursive practices of (post)colonial governance couched in the rhetoric of national integration, gender equality, and international cooperation.
She focuses on alliances between French women of North African descent and republican, liberal discourses. She analyzes these intimacies alongside the work of decolonial activists, artists, writers, and public intellectuals.
Before joining the faculty at Yale, she taught in the Women and Gender Studies department at Northern Arizona University.
At Yale, she teaches the ER&M senior colloquium and courses on race and ethnicity in France, postcolonial and decolonial theory, Caribbean literature, and postcolonial urban thought.