Bio: Ouafaa Deleger is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the French Department at Rutgers University. She grew up in Paris where she studied law and graduated with a Master from the University of Paris XII. Taking advantage of expatriation in Louisiana, she also holds a Masters in Political Science from the University of New Orleans where she focused on her thesis on the Emancipation of Muslim women in Muslim societies. French culture is diverse and keeps enriching French literature. For this reason, she is interested in studying the questions of language and identity through the lens of Maghrebian, African and Caribbean literature, but although through the lens of literature written by women in this part of the world.