Notes on Contributors

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

Sola Adeyemi is currently living in London, completing his doctorate on the postcolonial study of the performances of Femi Osofisan.

Yaw Adu-Gyamfi is a professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Nathalie Arnold is completing her doctoral dissertation in anthropology/English at Indiana University (Bloomington).

Lamia Ben Youssef is a Tunisian doctoral student at Michigan State University (East Lansing), specializing in postcolonial studies, African literature, and literature of the Maghreb.

Zara Bennett is pursuing graduate studies in the Department of French at UCLA.

Ngwarsungu Chiwengo is Associate Professor of English and Director of Creighton University's World Literature Program.

Marjolijn de Jager is a professional literary translator who teaches in the translation program at New York University.

Jeanne Garane is Assistant Professor of French at the University of South Carolina. She specializes in francophone literature and film.

James Gibbs teaches literature and drama at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Claudio Gorlier is a writer living in Turin, Italy.

Lee Haring is Professor Emeritus of English, Brooklyn College (CUNY), and Adjunct Lecturer, Graduate Program in Folklore and Folklife at the University of Pennsylvania (College Park).

Ellie Higgins is Assistant Professor of English at Penn State McKeesport.

Amanda Kemp is Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Adele King is Professor of French at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

Thomas J. Kitson received his MA from The Ohio State University and is continuing his graduate studies at Columbia University in New York.

Loren Kruger teaches English, Comparative Literature, and African Studies at the University of Chicago.

Maximilien Laroche is Professeur de Littératures at the Université de Laval in Québec, Canada.

Simon Lewis teaches African and postcolonial literature at the College of Charleston.

Lisa McNee is Assistant Professor of French Studies at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Serge Ménager is Chair, Department of French, at the University of Natal in South Africa.

Gerald Moore is a scholar living in Udine, Italy.

Silvia Nagy-Zekmi is Associate Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Albany (SUNY).

Anuradha Dingwaney Needham teaches anglophone literatures of the Third World at Oberlin College in Ohio.

Ode S. Ogede is a professor in the Department of English at North Carolina Central University in Durham.

Wole Ogundele has recently been with the Institute for African Studies at the University of Bayreuth in Germany.

Ike Okafor-Newsum is a writer and visual artist. He is Associate Professor of African American and African Studies at The Ohio State University.

Anjali Prabhu is a member of the Department of French at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Nasrin Qader is Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Wumi Raji is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Bayreuth in Germany.

Marjorie Attignol Salvodon is Professor of French at Connecticut College in New London.

Elaine Savory teaches at New York University and has worked as a director of theaters in Ghana, Barbados, and the United States.

Smriti Srinivas is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Studies at The Ohio State University.

Greg Thomas has recently been a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a teacher in the English Department at Michigan State University.

Hélène Tissières is a member of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas at Austin.

Diala Touré is on the faculty of Art History at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Jean-Marie Volet is Professor of French Studies at the University of Western Australia, Nedlands.

Keith Q. Warner is Professor of French and Caribbean Studies, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia).