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Mailing Address Department of Comparative Literature The University of Georgia--Athens 231 Joe Brown Hall Athens, Georgia 30602 USA

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Countries of Specialization Mali, Guinea

Education 1983: Ph.D., University of Saarbrcken (West Germany)

Research Interests Specialized in Literatures in African Languages and Oral Literature; Literary Anthropology; Epics; Literatures in Contact (African Literatures and African Literatures in European Languages); Film and Literature. Area of Focus: West Africa (Mande, i.e.: Sahelian Region)

Teaching Interests October 1998 to present: Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature April-Oct. 1997: Professor of Literatures in African Languages (research on the relationship between oral, written literature and film) Jan. 1995 - March 1997: DFG Fellowship (Habilitationsstipendium) at the University of Bayreuth, Germany Jan, 1986 - 1994: Head of the working team "Francophone and African Literatures in Contact" (within the Special Research Group 214 on "Identity in Africa", Project C1 led by Prof. Riesz) Unofficial Co-supervisor of Ph.D. Thesis within the Department of Romance and Comparative Literature, and within the Department of African Linguistics May 1987 - July 1994: Akademischer Rat auf Zeit (Assistant Professor) May 1983 - April 1987: Lecturer for Manding (Mande Studies)

Publications * Books Le jeu et le sérieux. Essai d'anthropologie littéraire sur la poésie épique des chasseurs du Mande (Afrique de l'Ouest). Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Reihe 'Studien zur Kulturkunde' [forthcoming: 1999] Die Verlobte des Marabut. Märchen und Mythen aus Westafrika. Aachen: MVG 1999. Segu Maana Bamanankan na. Madison: University of Wisconsin, African Studies Program 1998. [Co-authors: David Conrad, Soumaila Diakite and Kassim Kone] Articles Die Welle, die sich vom Ozean trennen möchte. Zum afrikanischen Film und seinen Machern. Blätter des iz3w, Informationszentrum Dritte Welt, Nr. 231, August 1998. 42-43. [Modified reprint of "Afrikanische Filmemacher"] Afrikanische Filmemacher : die Welle, die sich vom Meer trennen möchte? Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Retrospektive : Cinema Afrika. As supplement of the daily Journal Die TAZ, February 13, 1998. Der Film als Bindeglied zwischen schriftlicher und oraler Literatur. Journal Film 31 (Sommer 1997), 31. 12-16. Demokratie - Ein Geschenk Europas? Über die eurozentristische Sichtweise afrikanischer Demokratiebewegungen. Blätter des iz3w, Informationszentrum Dritte Welt. Nr. 176 September/Oktober 1991. 17-20. Alle anderen Sprachen sind nichts als 'Tutu' und 'Panpan'. Französisch in Afrika. Blätter des iz3w, Informationszentrum Dritte Welt, Nr. 158, July 1989. 27-32. Lala: Transkription, Übersetzung und Interpretationsversuch eines Manding-Textes. Komparatistische Hefte, Heft 15/16, 1988. 65-109. Der Turm zu Babel - ein afrikanisches Werk? Über Sprachbarrieren, Sprachenproblematik und Sprachpolitik. Das Parlament. Themenausgabe Afrika. 37. Jg. Nr. 33-34, August 15-22, 1987. 12. Français en Afrique. J. Olbert, J. Riesz, U. Wielandt (éds.): Débat sur la francophonie. Französisch Heute Nr. 2, Juni 1986. 270-286. Y a bon français africain. Peuples Noirs-Peuples Africains (1983), Nr. 32, 15-27 (together with Jean-Claude Naba). Book chapters Jeli and Sërë or the Dialectics of the Word in the Mande. Ralph Austen (ed.): Sunjata: The African Oral Epic as History, Genre and Performance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1999. 'Nou pas bouger': Une mémoire mande au rythme de la "World Music". Christian Petr (ed.): Droits de l'Homme. Droits de la Collectivité en Afrique. Paris: Editions Nouvelles du Sud 1998. 56-66. Der Schriftsteller als moderner "Griot"? Kulturkontakt und Wortkünstler im westafrikanischen Sahelgebiet. Peter Cichon (ed.): Sprachliches Erbe des Kolonialismus in Afrika und Lateinamerika. Wien: Praesens Verlag 1996. 58-70. Deux figures héroïques de l'aire culturelle Mande: le Ceddo et le Õana. Papa S. Diop (ed.): Sénégal-Forum: Littérature et Histoire. Frankfurt: IKO Verlag 1995. Relevance and Significance of the Sunjata Epic. Jarich G. Oosten (ed.) Text and Tales. Leiden: Research School CNWS, 1994. 78-94. Les enfants de Saanë et de Kontoron: à propos des chasseurs du Manden. János Riesz et Hélène d'Almeida-Topor (eds.): Echanges franco-allemands sur l'Afrique. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies Series 33, 1994. 231-243. Bëë y'i ba bolo (Everybody lies in her/his mother's hands): Gender Issues in the Hunters' Songs of the Mande. Reh, Mechthild and Gudrun Ludwar-Ene (eds.): Gender and Identity in Africa. Münster & Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1994. 85-97. Jeunesse et Littérature au Mali sur l'exemple de deux textes Manding. Hélène d'Almeida-Topor, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Odile Goerg et Françoise Guitart (éds.): Les Jeunes en Afrique. Evolution et rôle (XIXe-XXe siècles). tome I. Paris: Editions l'Harmattan, 1992. 44-51. Kulturelle Dimension der literarischen Übersetzung: die deutsche Fassung von Kouroumas 'Les Soleils des Indépendances'. Gilles Dorion e.a. (eds.): le français aujourd'hui, une langue à comprendre. Französisch heute, mélanges offerts à Jürgen Olbert. Frankfurt am Main: Verlag Moritz Diesterweg, 1992. 429-439.

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