Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and AAAS
Recent Scholarship:
Co-authored with Ivy G. Wilson, "Black is the Color of the Cosmos or
Callaloo and The Cultures of the Diaspora Now," Callaloo Vol.30.2
(2007).
Co-editor, special issue of Callaloo, 30.2 (2007).
"Male Wives, Female Husbands: Immigration and the Geography of Gender and
Home," The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, (Fall 2006).
"In Search of African Epistemologies: Instituting the Griot as A Critical
Paradigm in African Cinema," (2006).
"Court Poet and Wild Child: Two Readings of Calixthe Beyala's Les Honneurs
perdus," Nottingham French Studies, 43:3 (Autumn 2004).
"Neither Here Nor There: Calixthe Beyala's Collapsing Homes," Research
in African Literatures, 33.2 (2002).
"Autobiography or Autojustification: Re-reading Bugul's Le baobab fou,"
The Literary Grio, 11:2 (1999).
Interests:
African Literatures and Cinema
Postcolonial Theory
Colonial and Postcolonial Masculinities
Human Rights
Women writers from Africa and the Caribbean
Courses Taught:
Gender Identities and Politics in Africa
Colonial and Post-Colonial Masculinities
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