Dr. Perri Giovannucci Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. in English, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA M.A. in English, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA B.A. in Journalism, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA; with a minor in Classical Civilizations
Dr. Perri Giovannucci teaches classes in world literature, humanities, English
composition, and, literature and composition. She also looks at films as literary texts and uses them in her pedagogy. She is
interested in the literature of the Middle East, particularly the modern literature of the Maghreb countries of North Africa.
Her book, Literature and Development in North Africa: The Modernizing Mission, was published in the spring of 2008 by Routledge.
She won the AUD Provost Award for outstanding literary achievement for this work.
Dr. Giovannucci’s other areas of interest include globalization; cultural studies;
anti-colonialism and post-colonialism; historiography and historical materialism; psychoanalytic theory; feminism; and, issues
of human rights and social justice. Her current research focuses on the war in Iraq.
