Felicity Palmer

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Assistant Professor
Affiliation	University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Email	felicity.palmer@usm.edu
Mailing Address	Department of English University of Southern Mississippi 118 College Drive Box 5037 Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	601 266 4259
Countries of Specialization	Zimbabwe ; Cameroon.
Research Interests	Anglophone and Francophone African literature, postcolonial literature, African women writers. Her doctoral dissertation compared the novels of two contemporary African women writers, Yvonne Vera from Zimbabwe and Calixthe Beyala from Cameroon. She focuses on the authors' depictions of women's experiences of sexual pleasure and trauma, exploring the unexpected connection between these experiences and post-independence questions of freedom and modernity in contemporary Africa.
Teaching Interests	Anglophone and Francophone African literature, postcolonial literature, African women writers.
Publications	"Sex in the Postcolonial City: Desire, Kinship, and Freedom in Yvonne Vera's Without a Name," Stichproben: Vienna Journal of African Studies, No. 11, December 2006, p. 27-44.
Keywords	Yvonne Vera ; Calixthe Beyala ; postcolonial literature ; African literature ; women writers.