Departments and Programs

• African and African American Studies
• Comparative Literature

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~complit/faculty/coly.html

Contact Information

Email: ayo@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-1281
Office: 6051 Reed Hall

Education

Licence ès Lettres degree Université Cheikh Anta Diop; Diplôme d'Études Approfondies Université Lumière Lyon; Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

Areas of Expertise

African literature and culture; African cinema; gender in African society; post-colonial and colonial literature

Selected Works

• "Male Wives, Female Husbands: Immigration and the Geography of Gender and Home," The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, (Fall 2006).
• "In Search of African Epistemologies: Instituting the Griot as A Critical Paradigm in African Cinema," (2006).
• "Court Poet and Wild Child: Two Readings of Calixthe Beyala's Les Honneurs perdus," Nottingham French Studies, 43:3 (Autumn 2004) 15-27.
• "Neither Here Nor There: Calixthe Beyala's Collapsing Homes," Research in African Literatures, 33.2 (2002) 34-35.
• "Autobiography or Autojustification: Re-reading Bugul's Le baobab fou," The Literary Grio, 11:2 (1999) 56-69.

Current Projects

"Human Rights or Humanizing Rights:(Re)Claiming the Circumcised African Woman;" Out of their Fathers' House, Migrant African Women Writers at the Crossroads of Roots and Routes; "Technologies of the Postcolonial Self: Ken Bugul Cendres et Braises and Riwaan ou le chemin de sable;" "From African to Afro-French: New Maps of African Identities"