African Literature and Critical University Studies
Session type: Panel
Organized by: Anne W. Gulick
Send abstracts or inquiries to: agulick@mailbox.sc.edu
This panel welcomes papers exploring intersections between the fields of African literature and Critical University Studies. Papers might consider topics such as:
- Literary treatments of the twenty-first-century African university, student debt, the corporatization of higher education, and the devaluation of the humanities
- Critical and historical frameworks for theorizing student resistance movements across the continent, including South Africa’s Fallist movements
- Critical pedagogy and its relevance to institutional critique as well as classroom practice from decolonization to the present
Please send a 200-word abstract by 19 February to agulick@mailbox.sc.edu.