Rate My Professor Mary McCullough

Mary E. McCullough is Professor of French and French Program Director in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Samford University, where she has taught since 2001. She earned a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University and M.A. and Ph.D. in French literature from Michigan State University. Prior to Samford, McCullough taught at Michigan State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Paris Nanterre University, and Baylor University. She grew up in Marseilles, France, attending French public schools until age 14 before completing high school at Black Forest Academy in Kandern, West Germany. McCullough teaches all levels of French language, Francophone literature and film, and Cultural Perspectives. Her research interests include literature by francophone North African women, French-language literature and film by the Maghrebian diaspora, and French narratives on World War II and its aftermath, particularly domesticity and representations of women. She has published articles on authors such as Maryse Condé, Yamina Benguigui, Azouz Begag, Assia Djebar, and Leila Sebbar, including “On Earthquakes, Orgasms, and Feminine Identity in Maïssa Bey’s Surtout ne te retourne pas” (2016), “No more silencing the past: first-generation immigrant women as bricoleuses de mémoire in Parle mon fils parle à ta mère and Fatima ou les Algériennes au square by Leïla Sebbar” (2003), and “Who’s Mocking Whom? Representing the ‘Beur’ Stereotype in Beni ou le Paradis privé” (2002). McCullough has presented papers at national conferences (SCMLA, SAMLA, MMLA, MIFLC) and international conferences (MLA, CIEF, ACTC, ALA, MESA).