Intellect

Kamal Salhi (Ph.D.) is a senior academic and active researcher who teaches francophone postcolonial culture, literature, film and theatre in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Leeds. He was the founding-director of the first UK Centre for Francophone Studies (1997-2003) and deputy director of the Centre for African Studies (2003-present) at the University of Leeds, and held several research and teaching positions internationally prior to taking post in Leeds in 1995. He has recently been appointed visiting professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2006) and visiting professor for Summer Institute at the State University of Oregon (2007).

He is the founder and editor of the International Journal of Francophone Studies, editor of five books, African Theatre for Development: Art for self-determination (Exeter 1998), Francophone Voices (Exeter: 1999), Francophone Studies: Discourse and Identity (Exeter: 2000), French in and out of France. Language Policies, Intercultural Antagonisms and Dialogue (Oxford/Bern/New York 2002) and Francophone Post-colonial Cultures (New York/Oxford/Lanham 2003). He is the author of The Politics and Aesthetics of Kateb Yacine. From Francophone Literature to Popular Theatre (New York/Ontario/Lampeter 1999), and is currently writing a major research monograph on cinema and the legacies of conflict in post-independence cultures. His recent major contributions to academic journals and books include �Critical Imperatives of the French Language in the Francophone World: Colonial Legacy � Postcolonial Policy�, (CILP 2002), �Theatre of Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia� (CUP 2004), �Rethinking Francophone Culture: Africa and the Caribbean between History and Theory� (RAL 2004), �Imaging Silence � Representing Women: Ambiguous Cinematic Strategies in North African Women�s film� (QRFV 2007), �Essentials for Rethinking Postcolonial Cultures and Arts: the Problematic of Minoritizing in North Africa�, (Cambridge Scholars 2007), and �Slimane Bena�ssa from Exile in the Theatre to Theatre in Exile: Ambiguous Traumas and Conflicts in the Algerian Diasporic Drama� has just been completed. Kamal Salhi has contributed other scholarly work to encyclopedias such as Francophone Studies: The Essential Glossary (Arnold, 2002), Encyclopedia of Modern French Thought (Routledge 2004) and A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires (EUP 2006). His academic standing is also characterized by a number of various professional services he provided to national and international radios and televisions, research funding bodies and institutions, professional associations and societies. His career began as a film maker and theatre director.