Leservot’s research focuses on Maghrebi (Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian) and Caribbean literatures, cultures, and diasporas in France and Québec. Leservot’s publications include Le Corps mondialisé, a book on globalization, the media, and the female body in literatures from France, the Caribbean, and the Maghreb, and articles and book chapters on Maryse Condé, Assia Djebar, the Muslim veil in Québec, Saint-Domingue refugees in Louisiana, Occidentalism in Marjane Satrapi's Persépolis, and Francophone Postcolonial theory. Her current research project focuses on the cultural production of Maghrebis in Québec.

Typhaine Leservot is Associate Professor of French, and Associate Professor of Letters in the College of Letters. She is also affiliated with the Caribbean Studies minor, the African Studies minor, the Muslim Studies minor, and faculty partner with the Women's Ice Hockey Team.