l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Dr.

Florida International University, Florida

curryg@fiu.edu

English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Florida International University
3000 NE 151st Street
North Miami, Florida 33181 USA

phone: 305-919-5857

http://www.fiu.edu/~curryg

African Diaspora

Ph.D. Sorbonne University, Paris III

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.

"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.

Transnational Studies; African Diaspora ; race ; gender ; globalization.