Notes on Contributors

Kwaku Asante-Darko lectures on African poetry and European literature in the Department of English at the National University of Lesotho.

Ralph Austen is a professor on the Committee on African and African-American Studies at the University of Chicago.

Rita Barnard is Associate Professor of English and Acting Chair of Comaprative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania.

Carole M. Beckett is Senior Lecturer in the French Department, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.

Antonio Benítez-Rojo is the Thomas B. Walton Jr. Memorial Professor at Amherst College (Massachusetts).

Erika Bourguignon is Professor emerita and former chair of the Department of Anthropology at The Ohio State University, where she taught courses on African, Caribbean, and Latin American cultures.

Eckhard Breitinger is a professor in the Institut für Afrikastudien at the University of Bayreuth (Germany).

Sandra Chait is a lecturer/academic counselor for the Program on Africa at the University of Washington (Seattle)

Michael Dash is Professor of French at New York University.

Gaurav Desai teaches in the English Department and is Co-Director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Tulane University (New Orleans).

André Djiffack is a professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Cape Town.

Margaret Thompson Drewal is a professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois).

Simon Gikandi is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).

Liz Gunner is currently with the Department of English at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg.

Peter Hulme is Professor in Literature at the University of Essex.

James A. Jones is Associate Professor of African History at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

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

Barbara Klaw is Associate Professor of French at Northern Kentucky University (Highland Heights).

Ambroise Kom is a professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Ruth H. Lindeborg is Books Review Editor of Research in African Literatures.

J. P. Little has taught and researched in West Africa and currently lectures at St. Patrick's College, Dublin, Ireland.

Robert Eric Livingston teaches comparative literature at the Ohio State University.

Lokangaka Losambe is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont in Burlington.

Emeke Nwabueze is a professor in the Department of Dramatic Arts at the University of Nigeria-Nsukka.

Olatubosun Ogunsanwo teaches in the Liberal Arts Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art (Ohio).

Gauri Viswanathan is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Itala Vivan is a professor in the Faculty of Political Science, Institute of Foreign Languages, at the University of Milan.

Adebayo Williams, most recently Visiting Fellow at the Afrika-Studie Centrum, Leiden, the Netherlands, is a professor of English, Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, England.

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