Notes on Contributors

Moradewun Adejunmobi teaches African Studies at the University of California, Davis.

Niyi Afolabi teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Ulli Beier is former director of IWALEWA HAUS, attached to Bayreuth University, and is presently an independent scholar living in Australia.

Aija Bjornson has a doctorate in German and is a librarian at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Bexley, Ohio.

Sana Camara is a professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Truman University in Missouri.

Laura Chrisman has recently taken a position in the English Department at the University of York in England.

Pathé Diagne is an independent scholar, living in Dakar, Senegal.

Kenneth W. Harrow is in the English Department at Michigan State University in East Lansing.

Bruce King specializes in Commonwealth literature as well as music.

Simon Lewis is with the Department of English and teaches African literature at the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

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

Michael T. Martin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Adeline Masquelier is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Joseph McLaren teaches African, Caribbean, and African American literature at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.

Daniela Merolla is a professor at Leiden University in The Netherlands.

Gerald Moore is a scholar living in Udine, Italy.

Mildred Mortimer is Professor of French at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

H. Adlai Murdoch is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Fawzia Mustafa teaches at Fordham University in New York City.

Ato Sekyi-Otu is Associate Professor in the Division of Social Science and Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University in Ontario, Canada.

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

Alan Rice is Principal Lecturer in American Studies and Cultural Theory at the University of Central Lancashire (UK).

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.

Barbara Hill Rigney is Professor of English at The Ohio State University.

Benita Sampedro is Assistant Professor of Colonial Latin American Literature at Hofstra University in New York.

Wole Soyinka, a Nobel Prize Laureate, is a professor in the Department of African American Studies at Emory University (Atlanta).

Janice Spleth is Professor of French and African Literature at West Virginia University (Morgantown).

Peter S. Thompson teaches at Roger Williams University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Janet G. Vaillant is a professor at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University.

Richard Watts is a professor in the Department of French and Italian at Tulane University (New Orleans).

David M. Westley is Africana Bibliographer in the African Studies Library at Boston University in Massachusetts.

Jennifer Wenzel is Assistant Professor of English at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

Christopher Wise is with the Jordanian-American Commission for Educational Exchange in Amman, Jordan.