l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Professor of French

Mount Holyoke College

sgadjigo@mtholyoke.edu

Ciruti Center for Foreign Languages
Department of French
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075 USA

413-538-2255

Senegal ; other countries of French-speaking Africa

University of Illinois, Ph.D.
Université de Dakar, Senegal, M.A., B.A.

African cinema ; African literature in the French language ; comparative and world literature

African literature ; African cinema

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]