Ginette Curry

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Dr.
Affiliation	Florida International University, Florida
Email	curryg@fiu.edu
Mailing Address	English Department College of Arts & Sciences Florida International University 3000 NE 151st Street North Miami, Florida 33181 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 305-919-5857
Websites	http://www.fiu.edu/~curryg
Countries of Specialization	African Diaspora
Education	Ph.D. Sorbonne University, Paris III
Research Interests	My Ph.D. is in African American and Post-Colonial Literatures from the Sorbonne University, Paris. I am an Affiliate Faculty of the Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization (IRGG) at Yale University.
Publications	"In Search of Maba: A 19th Century Epic from Senegambia, West Africa" "Toubab La!" Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora. (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, London, 2007). Awakening African Women: The Dynamics of Change. (Cambridge Scholars Press, London, England, 2004) I wrote articles and book reviews in a series of African Studies journals such as African Studies Review, JENDA, West Africa Review, and other publications such as the Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers and the African American National Biography (AANB). My book chapter "African Literature" appeared in the Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures: Sub-Saharan Africa in 2007.
Keywords	Transnational Studies; African Diaspora ; race ; gender ; globalization.