Prof. Emna Beltaïef

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Emna Beltaïef is full Professor of French language, literature and civilisation. Since 2024, she has been elected Vice-President of the University of Tunis.

She is the author of two books, ‘Les figures de l’enfance dans l’œuvre romanesque de Nathalie Sarraute’ (Childhood Figures in the Novels of Nathalie Sarraute), Tunis, CPU, 2013, and ‘Remise de peine de Patrick Modiano : voyage au pays de l’enfance’ (Patrick Modiano’s Remission: A Journey to the Land of Childhood), Louvain-La-Neuve, Academia, 2013. She has co-edited a number of collective works, the latest of which, ‘Intimacy and Politics in Photographic Self-narratives: Writing in the Occident and in the Maghreb’, will be published by AUP in 2026. Her research focuses on self-narrative, contemporary French novels and intermediality. She organised the first edition of the Autumn Cultural Days at the University of Tunis in November 2025.