Rate My Professor Julin Everett

Julin Everett serves as Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies and Chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at Scripps College. A first-generation American and first-generation college student, she holds a B.A. magna cum laude in Classical Singing from Boston University and a Ph.D. in Francophone Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her graduate studies were supported by the Dissertation-Year Fellowship (2009-2010), Alice Belkin Fellowship (2006-2007), Summer Research and Mentorship Fellowships (2005 and 2006), and Eugene Cota Robles Fellowships (2004-2005 and 2007-2008). Prior to Scripps College, where she joined as Assistant Professor in 2019, Everett was Assistant Professor of French at Ursinus College, receiving the Lloyd Jones Award for Excellence in Advising and Mentoring there in 2018. She also earned a Research Award for archival work in Senegal from Appalachian State University in 2012.

Everett's academic interests center on French and Francophone studies, visual studies, postcolonial studies, Shoah studies, and queer studies. She is the author of the monograph Le Queer Impérial: Male Homoerotic Desire in Francophone Colonial and Postcolonial Literature (Rodopi-Brill, 2018). Key publications include the article “Survivantes vivantes du genocide rwandais: Un Entretien avec Léo Kalinda, réalisateur de Mères Courages” (Nouvelles Études Francophones, Fall 2018); “The Textual Ceremony: Writing against Trauma in Calixthe Beyala’s La Petite fille du réverbère,” co-authored with Katerina Dee (The French Review, 91.2, December 2017); “Must la Victime Be Feminine? Postcolonial Violence, Gender Ambiguity and Homoerotic Desire in Sony Labou Tansi’s Je soussigné cardiaque” (Research in African Literatures, 44.1, Spring 2013); and “The Postcolonial Orphan’s Autobiography: Authoring the Self in Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter and Calixthe Beyala’s La petite fille du réverbère” (College Literature, 36.3, 2009). Her translations appear in The Creolization of Theory (Duke University Press, 2011) and French Cultural Studies (24.2, May 2013). Additional contributions encompass the public installation Scene/Unseen at Ursinus College (August 2017–January 2018) and invited talks such as “The Apparel of Others: Used Clothing in Colonial Contexts.” She recently published “Hanif Kureishi's Passages of Queerness: Diasporic Discomfort in The Buddha of Suburbia” (College Literature, 51.3, Summer 2024). At Scripps, Everett serves on the Faculty Executive Committee and directed the Clark Humanities Museum (2023-2024).