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Marist Fall 2026 Open House
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Marist Fall 2026 Open House
Join us for a Fall Open House and see Marist for yourself. Explore our stunning riverfront campus, learn more about academics and admissions, and get a firsthand look at life as a Red Fox. Along the way, you'll hear from students, faculty, and staff about the opportunities, connections, and experiences that make Marist special. Register Below:
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Marist Fall 2026 Open House
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Marist Fall 2026 Open House
Join us for a Fall Open House and see Marist for yourself. Explore our stunning riverfront campus, learn more about academics and admissions, and get a firsthand look at life as a Red Fox. Along the way, you'll hear from students, faculty, and staff about the opportunities, connections, and experiences that make Marist special. Register Below:
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Shanaaz Mohammed
Assistant Professor of French
Bio
Dr. Shanaaz Mohammed works in the field of Francophone Caribbean Studies. Her research focuses on representations of the South Asian diaspora in Francophone literature, and her essay "Coralization: Coral Materiality in Khal Torabully's Poetry" received the 2022 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Postcolonial Essay Award. She also received the Villa Albertine鈥檚 French in Higher Education grant to support a new Professional World and French Initiative at Marist.
In the language classroom, she enjoys integrating modern technologies to introduce students to innovative and exciting ways of using French. She is always eager to expose students to the rich diversity of the French-speaking world, which moves beyond the borders of France and extends to countries in Africa and the Americas, Caribbean, and Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is her hope that students leave her class with new perspectives on culture, greater confidence in their ability to communicate, and a more nuanced, enlarged sense of the world and the place of French in it.
Education
PhD, Florida State University
MA, Florida State University
BA, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
Research Interests/ Areas of Focus
Francophone Caribbean Literature and Cinema, South Asian Diaspora, Technology Enhanced Learning
Selected Publications
"Coralization: Coral Materiality and Khal Torabully鈥檚 poetry." Water Logics: Materialist Epistemologies for the Environmental Humanities, edited by yasser elhariry and Edwige Tamalet Talbayev. University of Virginia Press (2026): 177-196.
"Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and (French) Language Pedagogy: Practical Applications." The French Review 99.4 (2026): 15-34.
"Here to Stay: Google Workspace and the Post-Pandemic Classroom." Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 79.2 (2025): 145-162.
"Re-imagining the Aapravasi Ghat: Khal Torabully's Poetry and the Indentured Diaspora." Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies 4.2 (2021): 118-143.
"Disarticulating 滨苍诲颈补苍颈迟茅: Re-imagining the Motherland in Ernest Moutoussamy's Chacha et Sosso." Romance Notes 57.2 (2017): 221-232.
"Situating 滨苍诲颈补苍颈迟茅: Exile, Marginalization, and Memory in Ernest Moutoussamy's Aurore." 颁丑颈尘猫谤别蝉 33 (2016): 95-108.
Selected Presentations
"Practical Applications of GenAI in the French Language Classroom." Modern Language Association (MLA) and French Embassy Webinar on AI in the French Higher Ed Classroom, Zoom. (2025).
"The Evolving Role of Language Instructors in the Age of Generative AI." Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2025).
"Henry Sidambarom and the South Asian Diaspora鈥檚 Pursuit for Citizenship in the French Caribbean." Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA). Baltimore, Maryland (2022).
"The Aapravasi Ghat: A Postcolonial Site of (Dis)Unity." Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies. Virtual (2021).
"What Do You Meme? Digital Upgrades to the French Language-learning Classroom." Soci茅t茅 des Professeurs fran莽ais et francophones d鈥橝m茅rique. New York, New York (2019).
"Coolitude and the Symbolic Significance of the Aapravasi Ghat in Khal Torabully's Voices from the Aapravasi Ghat: Indentured Imaginaries." Center for Interdisciplinary Area Studies, Martin-Luther University. Halle (Saale), Germany (2019).
"Relationality, Affectivity, and the Indian Diaspora in Cond茅's Travers茅e." Caribbean Studies Association. Santa Marta, Colombia (2019).
"Corals, Coolitude, and Khal Torabully鈥檚 poetry." Department of French and Italian, Tulane University. New Orleans, Louisiana (2019).
"Situating 滨苍诲颈补苍颈迟茅: Exile and Memory in Ernest Moutoussamy's Aurore.鈥� University of Kansas Department of French and Italian. Lawrence, Kansas (2016).
"Re-presenting India in Guadeloupe: Exile, Belonging and Narrative Space in Ernest Moutoussamy's Aurore." Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Vancouver, Washington (2013).
Awards and Honors
Villa Albertine French in Higher Education Grant, 2024.
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Postcolonial Essay Award, 2022.
