Rita Faulkner is preparing to deposit her thesis in Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois for a doctorate specializing in French, Arabic, and English postcolonial literature. She successfully defended her dissertation, “National Allegory: Land and Body in Nawal El Saadawi and Assia Djebar” in May 2005. Her interests, however, include other “non-Western” literature and religions such as Japanese literature and Buddhism. The poems are tinged with Buddhist thought and were composed in the fall of 2004, three while driving and two while walking. In addition to having been published previously in SNReview, she has published “Assia Djebar, Frantz Fanon, Women, Veils, and Land” in World Literature Today and “Ce Sexe qui est deux, ce sexe qui est Dieu” in Dalhousie French Studies.

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