Souad Kherbi
Modern Languages Teacher
Ph.D. (French Studies with Certificates in Comparative Literature and Film Studies) Emory University; M.A. (Cultural Studies and Modern Languages) Sorbonne Nouvelle University; M.A. FLE (Foreign Language Acquisition, Linguistics and Pedagogy) Sorbonne Nouvelle; B.A. (French Literature and Linguistics) & B.A. (Spanish Literature, Linguistics and SLA) Sorbonne Nouvelle; Khâgne/Hypokhâgne, Lycée Molière, Paris; Baccalauréat, Lycée Français de Vienne (Austria).
Souad Kherbi’s awards and fellowships include the Anne Amari Perry Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies from Emory University, an Andrew W. Mellon Graduate Teaching Fellowship, and an Erasmus Fellowship from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and the University of Zaragoza.
Coming from a multicultural/multiracial family, Souad has grown and lived in as many as nine countries (Switzerland, Brazil, Spain, Indonesia, Austria, France, China, Algeria and Sweden, her parent’s native countries), and her approach to teaching language, literature, film, and culture is cross-cultural and reflects the diversity of her own upbringing.
Before joining Northwest, Souad has held faculty positions at Elysées Langues and Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, France and in the United States at Emory University in Atlanta, Dillard University and Bard Early College in New Orleans, Cornell University in Ithaca, the University of Washington in Seattle, where she had ample opportunities to teach upper-level courses on French and Francophone literature, culture, and film in their global iterations, as well as interdisciplinary-based ones on postcolonial, memory, translation and gender studies, or visual arts.
From her experience in teaching French at all levels for almost 20 years both in France and the US, Souad has mastered multilingual teaching contexts and acquisition issues with a task-based language teaching approach. She has also gained extensive experience in teaching and mentoring first-generation and non-traditional college students, incorporating in her teaching decolonial methodologies, social justice practices, and project-based learning deeply rooted in her students’ heritage and cultural environments. Ultimately, Souad strives to create an inclusive classroom environment of sheer and shared curiosity, where her students are invited to become full members of a global community of French-speakers.
Outside the classroom, Souad enjoys reading, walking her dog, swimming, yoga, performing arts, and watching world cinema or The Great British Bake-Off with her family.