Notes on Contributors

Farida Abu-Haidar is a sociolinguist specializing in the Maghreb. She is a member of the Institute of Linguists in London.

Evelyne Accad is a professor at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, in French, Comparative Literature, African Studies, Women Studies, Middle East Studies, and the Honors Program.

Niyi Afolabi is a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Katya Gibel Azoulay is Chair of Africana Studies at Grinnell College in Iowa.

Emmanuel Chiwome in the Department of African Languages at the University of Zimbabwe (Mount Pleasant Harare).

T. J. Cribb is a Fellow at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, England.

Robert Elliot Fox is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University (Carbondale).

Stephen Gray is a journalist in Crown Mines, South Africa.

Cassandra Stancil Gunkel has a doctorate in folklore and folklife and is a lecturer in English and Africana Studies at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania.

Bill Hemminger is Associate Professor of English and Foreign Languages at the University of Evansville (Indiana).

Nicholas Howe is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The Ohio State University.

C. L. Innes is Professor of Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England.

Jan Jansen is a member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands.

Said A. M. Khamis is Professor of African Literature at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Thomas J. Kitson is a graduate student in Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University.

George Lang is a professor of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).

Michel Laronde is Associate Professor of French at the University of Iowa where he teaches francophone studies and the literatures of immigration in France.

Neil Lazarus is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick in England.

Françoise Lionnet is Professor of French at the University of California-Los Angeles.

Robert Eric Livingston has a doctorate in English and in an administrator for the Humanities Institute at The Ohio State University.

David Chioni Moore is in the Department of English and is Acting Director of International Studies at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Kimani Njogu is a senior lecturer in the African Languages Department at Kenyatta University in Nairobi.

Osayimwense Osa is Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education at The Pennsylvania State University (University Park) and is Editor of the Journal of African Children's and Youth Literature.

Susan Petrilli is with the Istituto di Filosofia del Linguaggio at the University of Bari, Italy.

Augusto Ponzio is with the Instituto di Filosofia de Linguaggio at the University of Bari, Italy.

Alain Ricard is with the Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire of the Universities of Bordeaux, France.

János Riesz is Professor of Romance Literature and Comparative Studies as well as Vice President for Research and the Training of Young Scholars at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Martha R. Navarro is a doctoral student in the Department of English at Southern Illinois University (Carbondale). Her dissertation topic is related to issues of hybridities.

Pamela Scully teaches African and women's history at Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

Anna Wexler, of Brookline, Massachusetts, wrote her doctoral dissertation (Harvard) on Clotaire Bazile, a Haitian vodou flagmaker.

Danielle Wainwright received her PhD in francophone literature from The Ohio State University and is currently an independent researcher.

David Westley is Africana Bibliographer at the African Studies Library, Boston University.

Christopher Wise is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Western Washington University (Bellingham).

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