Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature with an interest in North African, French and Middle Eastern film and literature. Her book The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature (Greenwood-Heinemann, 2003) deals with 20 th century writers, filmmakers and artists from Arab North Africa and how contact with Western art forms has influenced their production. Prof. Flores Khalil wrote her doctoral thesis on the Moroccan novel, gaining her Ph.D. from Harvard University in November 1998. She has published articles on Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Assia Djebar (Algeria), Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia), Ramses Younan (Egypt), and other writers from North Africa . She has conducted research on literature and society in Morocco (1996-1998) and has taught as Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature in Egypt at The American University in Cairo (1999-2000). Recently, she served as interim Director for the Center for Maghreb Studies in Tunis , Tunisia (2001-2002). The courses she has taught in the Department of Comparative Literature at Queens College are: Francophone Literature, Arab Film and Literature, Great Books, and Introduction to the North African Novel.