Afrophone Literatures: Reshaping African National Environments Session type: PanelOrganized by: Bojana Coulibaly Send abstracts or inquiries to: bojana.coulibaly@ugb.edu.snWhile the creation of African national literatures in African languages as a decolonial alternative to African Europhone literatures is not a new concept, Read More …
Author: Bojana Coulibaly
Post-Conflict Environments in African Literature: Reconciliation, Justice, Memory
Post-Conflict Environments in African Literature: Reconciliation, Justice, Memory Session type: PanelOrganized by: Saumya Lal Send abstracts or inquiries to: slal@umass.eduPost-conflict environments are fraught with tensions and paradoxes as they grapple with enduring legacies of past violence and hostilities while imagining Read More …
African Literature and Big Data: A Call for A New Formalism
African Literature and Big Data: A Call for A New Formalism Session type: PanelOrganized by: Tejumola Olaniyan Send abstracts or inquiries to: tolaniyan@wisc.eduPaper abstracts are hereby invited for critical examinations of the potentials and limitations of big data application to Read More …
JOB: Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand
SCHOOL OF LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND MEDIA Senior Lecturer / Associate Professor in African Literature The Department of African Literature is seeking to make an appointment at the rank of Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor to start in 2018. The department Read More …
CFP: Kent State – Africa and the Global Atlantic World Conference
The Department of Pan-African Studies Kent State University presents its Fourth Biennial Africa and the Global Atlantic World Conference “Intersectional Approaches to Survival: Legacies of Resistance” April 12-13, 2018 Keynote Speaker: Professor Linda James Myers The Department of Pan-African Studies Read More …
CFP: Women Writing Diaspora: Transnational Perspectives in the 21st Century
Rose Sackeyfio Ph. D. In the 21st Century, female authors have moved beyond the margins of male- authored texts to command new spaces of prominence in the African literary canon. African women’s creative artistry has garnered critical acclaim through distinguished Read More …
JOB: Dean, College of Arts and Letters – James Madison University
James Madison University (JMU) invites applications and nominations for Dean of the College of Arts and Letters (CAL) who champions the vital role of the liberal arts and social sciences, by advocating for the essential contributions of the CAL disciplines Read More …
CFP: On Whose Terms? Ten Years On
On Whose Terms? Ten Years On Final Call For Papers; 1 Dec 2017 On Whose Terms? Ten Years On… (in Critical Negotiations in Black British Literature and the Arts) Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. March 22nd-23rd 2018 The cultural power Read More …
JOB: Instructor of Francophone African Literature & Culture at the University of Chicago
Instructor of Francophone African Literature & Culture Romance Languages and Literature University of Chicago The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago seeks a specialist in Francophone literature and culture of Africa and the African diaspora Read More …
CFP: Post-Colonial Nostalgia
Special Issue on Post-Colonial Nostalgia – Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Deadline: November 1, 2017 Simon Lewis and Giusi Russo, guest editors of the Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies are seeking manuscript submissions for a special issue on Read More …