Jerad Rahma – EN

Jan 23, 2024

Rahma Jerad

Assistant Professor, American and British civilization, University of Carthage, Tunisia

jeradrahma@yahoo.com

Research | Bio | Medias | Publications | Articles

Research

Research themes

  • American-Cuban relations, 1776-1860
  • Slavery and abolitionism in the United States, Great Britain and Cuba, early 1800-1860
  • American and Cuban slave narratives
  • American photography of Cuba, 1850-1865

Current Project

I am currently doing research on American photographer Charles DeForest Fredricks who visited Cuba in the 1850s and took what is considered to be among the first pictures of the island. I am first interested in the reasons that led him to visit the island but also to establish a studio there. I am also interested in the way he represented slavery in Cuba within the larger context of American-Cuban relations of that time.

Research Supervision, masters

  • Racial segregation in the United States during the 1950s
  • American slave narratives in the 19th century
  • The representation of African Americans in the 1930s Southern literature
  • Internship reports for B.A. and Masters in English for Communication
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Bio

Education and Academic Positions

  • 2009, Ph.D., University Paris Diderot. Dissertation Title: “American Expansionism towards Cuba: Slavery, Abolition and International Rivalries, 1836-1860. A Cultural and Diplomatic History.” Supervisor: Professor Marie-Jeanne Rossignol
  • 2011-present, Assistant Professor, University of Carthage, Tunisia

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Chief coordinator of undergraduate courses in civilization in the English department, 2015-2017
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Media

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    Publications

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      Articles

      • Rahma Jerad, « John Hope Franklin, l’histoire africaine-américaine de la marge au centre », Hélène le Dantec-Lowry, Parfait Claire, Renault Matthieu, Rossignol Marie-Jeanne, Vermeren Pauline (dir.) (2018). Écrire l’histoire depuis les marges : une anthologie d’historiens africains-américains, 1855-1965 (collection « SHS », Terra HN éditions, Marseille)
        http://www.shs.terra-hn-editions.org/Collection/?-Historiens-africains-americains-
      • Rahma Jerad, « Cuba, Britain and the complexities of the antislavery movement in the 1830s – abolitionist Richard Madden and the slave Juan Francisco Manzano », Miriam Cottias and Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (ed.) Distant Ripples of the British Abolitionist Wave, (Trenton, New Jersey: African World Press, Harriet Tubman Series, 2017)
      • Rahma Jerad, Les Etats-Unis et Cuba au XIXe siècle. Esclavage, abolition et rivalités internationales. (Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014), 248 pages.
      • Rahma Jerad, « L’abolitionnisme anglais et l’autobiographie aliénante de Juan Francisco Manzano, esclave cubain émancipé », La Revue du Philanthrope, n°5 (Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2014), pp. 145-157.
      • Rahma Jerad, « Littérature, esclavage et identité nationale aux Etats-Unis et à Cuba, dans les années 1830 », Claire Bourhis-Mariotti, Marcel Dorigny, Bernard Gainot, Marie-Jeanne Rossignol & Clément Thibaud (dir.), Couleurs, esclavages, libérations coloniales. Réorientation des empires, nouvelles colonisations Europe, Amériques, Afrique (1804-1860). (Les Perséides, 2013), pp. 359-377.
      • Rahma Jerad, « L’Esclavage aux Amériques : différences et similitudes. Une brève historiographie vue des Etats-Unis, 1947-1972 » L’Ordinaire des Amériques [En ligne], 215, 2013, mis en ligne le 22 février 2013. URL : http://lodel.revues.org/10/orda/562
      • Rahma Jerad, « Deux agents britanniques en croisade à Cuba mettent les Etats-Unis en émoi, 1836-1844 », Cahiers Charles V (46) 2009.
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