Katarzyna Pieprzak

Katarzyna Pieprzak is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Associate Dean of Faculty at Williams College in Massachusetts, USA.
She is the author of the book Imagined Museums: Art and Modernity in Contemporary Morocco (2010), and co-editor of two volumes: Land and Landscape in Francographic Literature (2007) and Critical Interventions: Africanity and North Africa (2010).

Her research focuses primarily on Moroccan contemporary and modern art history, Museum Studies, and 20th and 21st Century Maghrebi Francophone literature.
Her current book in progress, Elements of a Traveling Bidonville, explores the relationship between aesthetics, built environment, and political constitution in shantytowns in North Africa and France.