Jill Jarvis is a literary scholar who writes and teaches across linguistic and disciplinary borders. Since 2016, she has been an assistant professor in the Department of French and a member of the councils on African Studies and Middle East Studies at Yale University. Her first book Decolonizing Memory : Algeria & the Politics of Testimony (Duke UP, 2021) charts a new itinerary for literary studies and theories of testimony, cultural memory, and decolonization in the wake of French empire. Her next book, Signs in the Desert : Aesthetic Cartographies of the Sahara (forthcoming with University of Chicago Press), builds a case for how contemporary writers and filmmakers from across the African Sahara transform the reductive and dangerous ways in which this arid land has long been mapped. With Brahim El Guabli and Francisco Robles, she formed the Desert Futures Collective, a network of scholars, activists, and artists whose shared goal is to create new paradigms for interdisciplinary humanities scholarship through comparative focus on the poetics and politics of deserted places, beginning with the African Sahara and the Sonoran desert. Her other writing appears in New Literary History, Representations, PMLA, The Journal of North African Studies, Yale French Studies, Expressions maghrébines, Public Books, and elsewhere.