Daniel Nabil Maroun

My research is informed by intersection of gender and sexuality in Francophone communities primarily in North Africa and the Levant. I am interested in expression of sexual identity and citizenship and how individuals navigate these issues in relationship to society and familial structures both in France and in their native homes.

A second, and equally as important axe of research interests, is in HIV/AIDS studies in France. I investigate and chronicle France's literary and cultural response to HIV/AIDS from the late 80's through today, primarily focusing on corporeal representation and gay male ontology in regard to the disease. I co-edited a special issue on this topic with Contemporary French Civilization.  Depictions of corporeality have always been at the center of my research in particular how language structures the body. I co-edited an additional special issue of Contemporary French Civilization on the topic of language and the global French-speaking world that focuses on the (social) body.

Both of these research avenues are tied together by the larger concept of kinship. I am currently preparing a monograph on the politics of filiation in France and how queer forms of belonging navigate universalist ideologies of citizenship and existence.

Additionally, I am currently the Assistant Editor for Contemporary French Civilization an academic journal dedicated to studying all aspects of culture and civilization in the French and Francophone worlds as well as serving in the Steering Committee for the DDFC Collective.

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