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Mailing Address French Studies Queen's University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Canada

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Countries of Specialization Senegal; Togo

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Research Interests My dissertation -- recently published as a book -- focuses on Senegalese women's autobiographical discourses (Wolof and Francophone). I explore the construction of francophone women's gender and identity through the matrix of autobiographical discourses. On-going research focuses on the influences of Diaspora cultures on contemporary African literatures and cultural forms (musical and other) and on the construction of childhood through children's literatures.

Teaching Interests Francophone and French Studies, African languages and literature, Comparative Literature, folklore, Gender Studies, literary theory

Publications * Selfish Gifts: Senegalese Women's Autobiographical Discourses. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. "Le cadastre de la tradition: Propriété intellectuelle et oralité en Afrique occidentale." Mots pluriels. 8 (october 1998) [http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP898lmn.html] "Togo" and "Senouvo Agbota Zinsou, Togolese Playwright in Exile" in Censorship: An International Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, forthcoming. "Nafissatou Diallo." Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. Eds. Pushpa Parekh and Fatou Siga Jagne. Greenwood Press, 1998. "Autobiographical Subjects." Research in African Literatures 28/2 (1997) 83-101. Review of Manthia Diawara, African Cinema: Politics and Culture. Cinefocus 3 (1995) 43-45. "That Which Was Empty Shall Be Filled: The Female Autobiographical Self and The Other in Sindiwe Magona's TO MY CHILDREN'S CHILDREN." American Comparative Literature Association Bulletin 24/2 (1993) 122-138. "Teaching in the Multicultural Tempest." College Literature 19/3 (1993) 195-201. Forthcoming: "Back From Babylon: Popular Musical Cultures of teh Diaspora, Youth Culture and Identity in Francophone West Africa." Music, Popular Culture, Identities." Ed. Richard Young. Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming. "The Black and the White: Race and Oral Poetry in Mauritania." The Desert Shore: Literatures of the African Sahel. Ed. Christopher Wise. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, forthcoming. "Initiations: L'aventure ambiguk et l'espace liminaire de la lecture." Milanges en l'honneur de Janos Riesz. Ed. H.-J. Lisebrink and Papa Samba Diop. "Ourika en famille." French Prose in 1999. Ed. Michael Bishop. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

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