Rachel Grimm
Ph.D. 2020
Rachel Mihuta Grimm received a B.A. in French, along with a B.A. in English, from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in 2012. Her undergraduate thesis incorporated postcolonial, feminist, and performance theory to analyze identity as performance in two major works by lesbian Franco-Algerian author Nina Bouraoui. Before coming to Northwestern in 2013, she taught English for a year in Pau in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques region of southwestern France. Her current research interests include postcolonial North Africa, identity politics in France, gender as a way of signifying relationships of power, and Arabic.