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2023-24 Lecture Series Schedule

September 19, 2023September 19, 2023

Click here to view the full lecture series lineup for 2023-24.

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2023-24 Lecture Series Schedule

September 19, 2023September 19, 2023

Click here to view the full lecture series lineup for 2023-24.

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Assistant Professor ⎻ African / African Diasporic Literature ⎻ University of Missouri

September 5, 2023September 5, 2023

The English department at the University of Missouri, a public land-grant research university in the state of Missouri, seeks to hire an Assistant Professor in African / African Diasporic Literature. The English department consists of 35 faculty members working in Read More …

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Assistant Professor – African and African Diaspora Literatures and Culture – University of California, Berkeley

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023

The Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley seek applications for an Africanist position with a comparative component, at the level of Assistant Professor, tenure track (50% in Comparative Literature, 50% in English).

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14th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies (AAAD) Interdisciplinary Conference: “Reckoning”

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023

This year’s theme is “Reckoning,” a term that evokes the multitudinous ways responsibility and accountability may be linked to forms of measurement, methodology, and knowledge-constitution.

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Assistant Professor ⎻ African Literatures and Cultures in English ⎻ Department of English, University of California, Berkeley

July 18, 2023July 18, 2023

The Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in African literatures and cultures in English. The successful candidate will have training in African literary/cultural studies; grounding in one or more African Read More …

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Of freedom and the problem of the future in contemporary diasporic African speculative fiction

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023

By Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra Reading Deji Bryce Olukotun’s After the Flare (2017) and Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky” (2017) alongside Emmanuel Dongala’s “Jazz et vin de palme” (“Jazz and Palm Wine,” 1970), this essay begins Read More …

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Queer(ing) freedom: rewriting coming-out narratives in contemporary Maghrebian literary production

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023

By Gibson Ncube This article analyses how contemporary writers of Maghrebian descent make use of autofiction to make visible queer desires and sexualities which exist in a perpetual state of marginalization. Using autofiction, a genre of literary expression which has Read More …

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Blackness blurred: (un)belonging, kinship, and métissage in Marie NDiaye’s Ladivine

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023

By Polo B. Moji  This article examines elusive freedom and black (un)belonging in France through the work of Marie NDiaye, a prize-winning playwright and author, whose controversial denunciation of the “monstrosity” of President Nicholas Sarkozy’s France in 2009 coincided with Read More …

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Of freedom and literature in Africa and the diaspora

May 8, 2023May 8, 2023

By Phyllis Clark Taoua & Grace A. Musila This introduction to a special issue on freedom presents a set of original essays that reflect critically on the idea of freedom in relation to specific literary texts from Africa and the Read More …

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