A Companion to African Literatures - Группа авторов

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Tribe, Nation, Race (2017) and Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters (2003).

      Stefan Helgesson is Professor of English at Stockholm University. His research interests include Southern African literature in English and Portuguese, Brazilian literature, postcolonial theory, translation theory, and theories of world literature. He is the author of Transnationalism in Southern African Literature (2009), co‐author (with Mads Rosendahl Thomsen) of Literature and the World (2020), and co‐editor of The De Gruyter Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures (2020).

      Jeanne‐Marie Jackson is Assistant Professor of World Anglophone Literature at Johns Hopkins and received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale. Her first book is South African Literature’s Russian Soul: Narrative Forms of Global Isolation (2015), and her second, The African Novel of Ideas, is currently in press. In addition to her publications in a wide range of academic and public‐facing venues, she is also editor of Modernism/modernity’s “Field Reports” blog.

      Cilas Kemedjio is Frederick Douglass Professor at the University of Rochester, NY, where he is Professor of French and Francophone Studies. His contributions in the fields of Caribbean and African literature and culture, postcolonial theory, and transnational black studies have earned him both national and international recognition. He is the author of two monographs, one edited volume, and over sixty articles. He is author of Maryse Condé, Édouard Glissant et la malédiction de la théorie (1999) and Mongo Beti: le combattant fatigué. Une biographie intellectuelle (2013). His edited volume is entitled Mémoires des années de braise. La grève estudiantine de 1991 expliquée/Remember the Flame: White Papers from the 1991 Yaoundé University Strikes (2013). His current project seeks to unearth the genealogies of humanitarian interventions in Africa, and their attendant uneasy connections with the multilayered sites of power. The provisional title of this project is “Ota Benga and the Fictions of Humanitarianism.”

      Lokangaka Losambe is the Frederick M. and Fannie C. P. Corse Professor of English and a former Chair of the University of Vermont Department of English. He previously taught African, African Diaspora, and English literatures at universities in Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Swaziland, and South Africa. His numerous publications include Borderline Movements in African Fiction; An Introduction to the African Prose Narrative Literature; Literature, the Visual Arts and Globalization in Africa and Its Diaspora (edited with Maureen Eke); and Pre‐colonial and Post‐colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa (edited with Devi Sarinjeive). He is currently working on a book entitled Postcolonial Constellations within the Imperial Order: The Congo Narrative. Dr. Losambe also served as President of the African Literature Association (ALA) in 2012–2013.

      Luís Madureira is Professor in the Department of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His areas of research include Luso‐Brazilian colonial and postcolonial studies, modernism and modernity in Latin America, Africa, and the Caribbean, early modern and colonial studies, and theater and performance in Africa. He is author of Imaginary Geographies in Portuguese and Lusophone African Literature (2007) and Cannibal Modernities: Postcoloniality and the Avant‐garde in Brazilian and Caribbean Literature (2005). He is currently at work on two book‐length projects: one centers on Mozambican drama, the other on Luso‐African historical novels.

      Katwiwa Mule is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Smith College, Massachusetts, where he teaches various courses on World Literatures. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies from Pennsylvania State University. His research and teaching interests include contemporary African and African Diaspora literatures, human rights in world literature, and African theater. He is currently working on a book project on Fatima Dike’s Theater. He is the author of Women’s Spaces, Women’s Visions: Politics, Poetics and Resistance in African Women’s Drama (2007). His works include essays and book chapters that have appeared in numerous collections including Meridians, Kiswahili: Journal of the Institute of Kiswahili Research, and Mapping Africa in the English‐Speaking World: Issues in Language and Literature. He was also the Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Metamorphoses: Journal of the Five College Seminar on Literary Translation focusing on translation in Africa.

      Grace A. Musila is Associate Professor in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the author of A Death Retold in Truth and Rumour: Kenya, Britain and the Julie Ward Murder (2015), which explores Kenyan and British interpretations of the 1988 murder of British tourist Julie Ann Ward in Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya. She also co‐edited (with James Ogude and Dina Ligaga) Rethinking Eastern African Intellectual Landscapes (2012). She has written articles and chapters on Eastern and Southern African literatures and popular cultures.

      Evan Maina Mwangi is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University, and Professor Extraordinaire of English at Stellenbosch University. His books include Translation in African Contexts: Postcolonial Texts, Queer Sexuality, and Cosmopolitan Fluency (2017) and The Postcolonial Animal: African Literature and Posthuman Ethics (2018). His monograph in progress is on Indian Ocean cultures.

      Tahia Abdel Nasser is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. She is the author of Literary Autobiography and Arab National Struggles (2017) and the editor of Nasser: My Husband (2013). Her research interests include twentieth‐ and twenty‐first‐century literature and Arabic and Latin American literatures. She is at work on a book that examines Arab and Latin American literary and cultural exchange in the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries and another book on cultural and literary ties between Palestine and Latin America.

      Thengani H. Ngwenya is Associate Professor at the Durban University of Technology in South Africa where he is employed as the Director of the university’s Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT). His research interests include literary studies, higher education studies, autobiographical writing, and literary historiography.

      Josiah Nyanda lectures in English and Critical Thinking at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a visiting part‐time lecturer at the Great Zimbabwe University, where he teaches life writing and literary theory, and a fellow of the Literary Cultures of the Global South at Tübingen University. His areas of research interest include life writing, media studies, popular culture, and politics. His articles have appeared in such journals as Scrutiny 2, English Studies in Africa, Social Dynamics, Shakespeare in Southern Africa, and Contracampo. He also contributed chapters to the volumes Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo of Zimbabwe: Politics, Power and Memory (ed. Sabelo Ndlovu‐Gatsheni); and While the Harvest Rots: Possessing Worlds of Kudzanai Chiurai (eds. Robert Muponde and Emma Laurence).

      Anjali Prabhu is the Margaret E. Deffenbaugh and LeRoy T. Carlson Professor in Comparative Literature and Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Wellesley College, where she also teaches in the Cinema and Media Studies

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