Arlene A. Elder

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Affiliation	University of Cincinnati, Ohio City, Ohio
Email	elder2@fuse.net
Mailing Address	Department of English and Comparative Literature University of Cincinnati Mail Location 69 Cincinnati, Ohio 45221 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: (513) 556-3917 fax: (513) 556-5960
Countries of Specialization	Kenya
Education	Senior Fulbright Lecturer to the University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1976-7; member of the Executive Board of the African Literature Association, 1995-1997; member of the Executive Board of the Modern Language Association Division of African Literature, 1995-2000
Research Interests	African women writers; orature; South African, West African, East African literatures
Teaching Interests	African women writers; orature; South African, West African, East African literatures
Publications	Recent publications: -- "Bessie Head: The Inappropriate Appropriation of Autobiography," in a collection of essays on Bessie Head, ed. Huma Ibrahim, Africa World Press. Forthcoming. -- "Narrative Journeys: From Orature to Postmodernism in Soyinka's THE ROAD and Okri's THE FAMISHED ROAD" in MULTICULTURALISM AND HYBRIDITY IN AFRICAN LITERATURES, eds. Hal Wylie and Bernth Lindfors, Trenton, NJ: African World Press, 2000.
Keywords	African literature ; African orature ; African women.