Samba Gadjigo

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor of French
Affiliation	Mount Holyoke College
Email	sgadjigo@mtholyoke.edu
Mailing Address	Ciruti Center for Foreign Languages Department of French Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	413-538-2255
Countries of Specialization	Senegal ; other countries of French-speaking Africa
Education	University of Illinois, Ph.D. Université de Dakar, Senegal, M.A., B.A.
Research Interests	African cinema ; African literature in the French language ; comparative and world literature
Teaching Interests	African literature ; African cinema
Publications	Books 2010 Ousmane Sembène : the making of a militant artist. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010. [Originally published in 2007 as: Ousmane Sembène : une conscience africaine : genèse d'un destin hors du commun. Paris : Éditions Homnisphères] 1990 Ecole blanche, Afrique noire : l'école coloniale dans le roman d'Afrique noire francophone. Paris : Editions L'Harmattan. 2010 Co-editeur, avec Sada Niang Un viatique pour l'éternité : hommage à Ousmane Sembène. Dakar, Sénégal : Éditions Papyrus Afrique. 1993 Co-editeur Ousmane Sembène : dialogues with critics and writers. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. Selected book chapters and journal articles 2008 "Interview with Ousmane Sembène." In Ousmane Sembène: Interviews, edited by Annett Busch & Max Annas, Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi, 2008. Pp. 190-196. 2004 "Ousmane Sembene and History on the Screen: A Look Back to the Future." In Focus on African Films, edited by Françoise Pfaff, Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 2004. Pp. 33-47. 2003 "Teaching Francophone African Literature in the American Academy," Yale French Studies,103 (2003): 33-40. [trans. by Christopher L. Miller]