Education
Professional Bio
Rosalyn Dansoa WIAFE is a graduate student in French and Francophone Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She earned her M.A. in French and Francophone Studies from the University of Florida and her B.A. in French, with a minor in Political Studies, from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. Her master's thesis, Memory and Inheritance: Gender, Trauma and Narrative in La Carte Postale by Anne Berest and Houris by Kamel Daoud, examined the transmission of memory and trauma across generations, with particular attention to the legacy of the Algerian Civil War and its impact on gendered experiences and narrative representation. Her research interests include Francophone literature of the Maghreb, particularly Algeria, as well as memory and trauma studies, postcolonial literature, gender, identity, and cultural memory. Through her work, she seeks to contribute to scholarly understandings of how literary narratives from the Maghreb preserve, negotiate and reinterpret histories of violence, conflict, trauma and displacement, while expanding theoretical conversations on memory transmission, postcolonial identity formation and the role of literature in shaping collective remembrance and reconciliation in post-conflict societies.