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Countries of Specialization Senegal-Sierra Leone-France

Education Doctorat de 3eme cycle/Ph.D.- Paris VII University "Terres, urbanisme et architecture 'creoles' en Sierra Leone (18eme-19eme siecles) Maitrise/Master's- Paris IV-Sorbonne "L'image du Noir dans l'art et la litterature grecs (5eme-1er siecle BC) 2 years of preparation for Ecole Normale Superieure- Lycee Louis-le-Grand, Paris

Research Interests New urban identities resulting from slave trade and subsequent migrations between Africa and the West ; Métissage & hybridity ; Literature, history & arts.

Teaching Interests African studies, postcolonial studies, cultural studies. Humanities, historiography. Literature & Cinema.

Publications * Books . Gestuaire (poèmes). Paris: Gallimard. Collection Blanche, 2016 . La quête infinie de l’autre rive. Épopée en trois chants (epics). Collection Continents Noirs. Paris: Gallimard, 2011 Finalist for Prix Mahogany 2012, and Prix des Découvreurs 2013- Excerpts translated by A. Dickow won a runner-up place in journal Asymptote’s translation competition of 1/15/14- . Lagon, lagunes. Tableau de mémoire (poetic prose). Collection Continents Noirs. Paris: Gallimard, 2000 . Terres, urbanisme et architecture “créoles” en Sierra Leone (18eme-19eme siècles). Paris: L’Harmattan, 1998 . Editor of : Discours sur le métissage, identités métisses. En quête d’Ariel (Proceedings of conference at NYU, April 97) Paris: L’Harmattan, 1999 Fiction & Poetry (in books and periodicals) . « Morts en guerre et autres poèmes » L’Étrangère 33-34 special issue on African Poetry. Nimrod, ed. La Lettre Volée, 2014 . « Écriture et migration » Mediapart http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/article/121213/ecriture-et-migration . « Suite poétique » Recours au poème nov 13 http://www.recoursaupoeme.fr/po%C3%A8tes/sylvie-kand%C3%A9 . « Une certaine irrésolution- Notes sur Le Concert de Cologne de Keith Jarrett.» Franck Medioni ed. Editions Alter-Ego, June 2013, 124-127 . « L’homme qui marche. The Walking Man » Temenos-Special Benefit Edition 2012 « Offsprings of an African River » : 20-21 . “Contribution” La poésie, pour quoi faire ? 2 -Une enquête Jean-Michel Maulpoix, ed.Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2011: 99-107 . « Cartes postales » Italian translation with interview. El Ghibli, Rivista online di letteratura della migrazione, Anno 7, 31, March 2011 www.el-ghibli.provincia.bologna.it . « Cartes postales » (short story) Europe Revue Littéraire, 88è année, 976-977 (Août-Septembre 2010): 282-289 . « Le su, le tu et le dit » English translation Transition Magazine 100 (2008): 52-55 . « The Moth’s Flight,» « 3 haiku, » and « Toussaint Louverture » Tribute. A Rainbow of Praises. The New Rain Series vol 10. Blind Beggar Press, 2007 : 60-62, 74 & 86. . « Morts en guerre I- Morts en guerre II- Haiku » (poèmes) Ponts/Ponti, 2007, Milan, Italy : 104-109. . « Le su, le tu et le dit » (suite poétique) Le Nouveau Recueil 82 (mars-mai 2007): 31-38 . “Repères” (haiku), Christian Lavigne (ed.) Florilège de la poésie francophone . “In this Goddamned Messed-up Land”, Stephen Gray (ed.). The Picador Book of African Stories. London: Macmillan & Johannesburg: Pan-Macmillan, 2000, 56-62 . ”Dans ce sacré foutu pays”, La Nouvelle Revue Française, 553 (March 2000):178-186 . ”I love Harlem”, bananafish (Spring/Summer 2000):1-12 . “untitled” (poem), Des Rimes et des Rames. Finalists of the 2d poetry contest RATP. Paris: Relais H, 1999, 72 . ”Elisa,” Callaloo 20.3 (1998): 646-650 . ”Trajet,” Europe 811-812 (nov-dec 1996): 190-195 . ”D’ebène et de turquoise,” Lendemains 75-76 (1994): 81-83 Contributions to Books & Dictionaries . “Cicéron et les sans-papiers” Proceedings of Colloquium MIPRIMO (forthcoming) . “Ahmadou Kourouma,” Tanure Ojaide, ed Dictionary of Literary Biography-Contemporary African Authors. Bruccoli Layman Clark, Inc w/ Gale Research. New York/London, 2011: 122-132 . “Caste as a subtext in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Suns of Independence and Monnew” Nadia Altschul & Kathleen Davis, eds. Medievalism in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of “the Middle Ages” outside Europe. Baltimore: John Hopkins U. Press, 2009: 301-324. .“Métissage” - “Nyama” – Thomas Sankara”--“Sartre & Africa.” -- “Slavery” – Abiola Irele & Biodun Jeyifo, eds Encyclopedia of African Thought.Oxford U. Press, 2009: 302-304; 121-124; 172-177; 339-345; 306-310. . “Africa: I. History 1. Overview . 2. Colonial Period” – II. “Political and Cultural Agendas” III. “Art and Literature” - “Josephine Baker,”- “Béatrice of the Congo,” & “Dahomey Women Warriors” in Fedwa Malti-Douglas, ed. Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Gale Group, Inc., 2007: 23-32 . “Mamie Till Mobley” - “Adrian Piper” African-American National Biography. Harvard U. Press, 2007: 603-604 & 360-362. . “’This corpse so small left unavenged’: Nicolás Guillén and Aimé Césaire on Emmett Till’s lynching” Christopher Metress & Harriet Pollack, eds. Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination. U of Louisiana Press, 2008: 143-160 . “Africa and the European Renaissance”, Simon Gikandi & Abiola Irele (eds) Cambridge History of African & Caribbean Literature, 2004, 569-590 . “Look Homeward, Angel: Maroons & Mulattoes in Haile Gerima’s Sankofa”, Ken Harrow (ed.) African Cinema: Postcolonial & Feminist Readings), Trenton, NJ & Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, 1999, 89-114 (republication) . ”Remarques liminaires”, Sylvie Kandé (ed), Discours sur le métissage, identités métisses. Paris: L’Harmattan, 1999, 13-34 . Article on Marie Ndiaye’s novel En famille, Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires négro-africaines de langue française, vol II, Ambroise Kom (ed.), International Scholars Publications, Bethesda 1997, 198-200 . Article on Tchicaya U tam’ Si’s collection of short-stories, La Main sèche, Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires négro-africaines de langue française, vol II, Ambroise Kom (ed.), International Scholars Publications, Bethesda 1997, 318-321 . “Les coulisses d'une terminologie: l’ethnie créole de Sierra Leone”, C. Coquery-Vidrovitch (ed.), Histoire Africaine du 20ème siècle. Sociétés, villes, cultures. Paris: L’Harmattan, 1993, 127-149 Essais in journals, periodicals & on websites . « Et si les chiens ne se taisaient plus ? Une lecture d’En famille et de Ladivine de Marie Ndiaye.» Siècle 21 (forthcoming) . “Uchronies africaines. Relire “Le Voltaique” et La quête infinie de l’autre rive” Écrire l’Histoire 12, November 2013, 143-148 . « Obama, Sandy et l’ordre post-racial » Combats magazine http://www.combats-magazine.org/fr/?p=691 . “Hommage à Edouard Glissant”, Glissant-Monde, Africultures 87 (Mars 2012): 46-49 . « Les Indes : une épopée de la raison océane.» Siècle 21, 19 (automne-hiver 2011) : 121-128 . “Africa 1990s-present : Tragedies, Triumphs and Challenges.» Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultures- Africana Age website http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-africa-2010.html . « Obama : l’élu des votants et des non-votants issus de l’immigration africaine» Le Soleil (November 25, 2008) Rubrique : International . “La Diaspora africaine en Amérique latine à l’écran” Africultures 60, July-September 2004, 228-234 (www.africultures.com/index.asp?menu=affiche_article&no=3428) . Editorial: “Un automne à New York” Africultures 44 (January 2002): 5-9 . « Quant au Bronx… » on ‘Urban Mythologies’ exhibit at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Africultures 44 (January 2002): 64-66 . “The trans-Saharan gold trade (7th-14th century)” & “The Fulani/Fulbe people and their art” Metropolitan Museum of New York Art History Timeline www.metmuseum.org . “La période française de Richard Wright: l’art du haiku”, Sociétés africaines & diaspora, 12 (septembre 2001): 217-221 . “Panorama de la situation du français- Point de vue”, Le Francais à l’université. Agence Universitaire de la francophonie. Montréal, 5ème année, numéro 2, 2ème trimestre 2000, no page number. . Compte-rendu:“Hommage au Sénégal à l’Alliance Francaise de New York, 3-22-27/99" Le Soleil, (4/12/99): 6 . “Freetown: ville du retour, ville nouvelle, ville libre ?” & “Freetown: Krio heritage hit by war” The Chronicle-Changing Black Britain 6 (1999) . “From Bandiagara to Paris: Reflections on the Travels of a Dogon Sign”, Research in African Literatures, Poetics of African Arts, 31, 4 (Winter 1998): 21-28 . “Les vases communicants: oralité et écriture dans la littérature française et francophone” Colloquium at Columbia U., 11/21/98 Sociétés africaines et diaspora, 11 (septembre 98): 215-220 . ”Jazz et littérature francophone”, Mots Pluriels 13 (April 2000) (www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels) [selected by the Oxford Text Archive, a corpus use for the teaching of French language and research on the features of written French expression.] . “Look Homeward, Angel. Maroons & Mulattoes in Haile Gerima’s Sankofa” Research in African Literatures, 29, 2 (summer 1998): 128-146 . ”Les ‘Créolistes’: des post-césairiens ou des anticésairiens ?” Notre Librairie 127 (juillet-septembre 1996): 70-82 . “Renoncements et victoires dans La Rue Cases-Nègres de Joseph Zobel”, Revue Francophone de Louisiane IX, 2 (Autumn 94): 5-24 . “Ce que suggère le titre…,” Notre Librairie 119 (oct-dec 1994): 151-153 . “Renunciation and Victory in Black Shack Alley,” Research in African Literatures 25, 2 (Summer 1994): 33-50 . “Pour ceux qui regardent les artistes passer sur la scène. Ton beau capitaine de Simone Schwarz-Bart,” Notre Librairie, special issue (September 93): 44-46 . “ L’anthropologie contemporaine et le concept d’ethnie,” Cahiers de Jussieu (1985): 91-105

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