Notes on Contributors

Ousseina Alidou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey.

Ayo Abietou Coly is working toward a PhD in Comparative Literature and Women's Studies at Penn State University (University Park).

Lee Erwin is an independent scholar living in the United Arab Emirates.

Ambroise Kom holds the Eleanor Howard O'Leary Chair in Francophone Studies at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Cilas Kemedjio is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Rochester (New York).

J. Roger Kurtz is Associate Professor of English at the State University of New York, Brockport.

Sheila Smith McKoy is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Edmond Mfaboum Mbiafu is a scholar who resides in Garges lès Gonesse, France.

Alison Murray is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

Modupe Olaogun is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Maria Olaussen is Lecturer in English at Växjö University in Sweden.

Bonnie Roos is Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Julia Watson is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University.

Novian Whitsitt is Assistant Professor in Africana Studies and English at Luther College, Decorah, Iowa.

Katheryn Wright teaches in the Department of Foreign Languages at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.