Associate Professor Samuel England has been selected to receive a University Housing Honored Instructor award. Currently, England is teaching African 201: Introduction to African Literature and African 300: Arab Publics. Each semester, University Housing residents …
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Twitter’s African Moments Explored in New Book Featuring Reginold Royston
Assistant Professor Reginold Royston has co-authored a chapter titled, “Re-Territorializing Twitter: African Moments 2010-2015” with Krystal Strong of the University of Pennsylvania. “In this chapter, we analyze key events during the formative years of Twitter, with respect …
Vlad Dima elected to the Arts & Humanities Divisional Committee
Professor Vlad Dima was elected to serve a three-year term on the Arts & Humanities Divisional Committee. Congratulations, Vlad!
El-Nossery Earns Vilas Associates Award
Congratulations to Professor Nevine El-Nossery, who was awarded a Vilas Associates Award. This award provides summer salary for the summers of 2019 and 2020, and flexible research funding each year for the next two fiscal …
Exploring the contours of digital diaspora: An interview with Reginold Royston
by Kathryn Mara I find Dr. Reginold Royston tucked away inside his African Cultural Studies office, 1466 Van Hise Hall. He informs me that he is expecting another student doing a profile on him for …
Edoro, Ainehi
Ainehi Edoro is an Assistant Professor of African Cultural Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches and researches on African literature, political theory, and literature in social media. Edoro is the founder and …
Dima, Vlad
Vlad Dima is a film specialist. His main interest lies in Francophone cinemas, but he also researches and writes about French cinema (especially the New Wave), film theory, Hitchcock, Tarantino/American auteur cinema, television studies, Quebec novel, …
Royston, Reginold
I am media anthropologist and digital humanities researcher, jointly-appointed in the School of Information (formerly SLIS) and the Department of African Cultural Studies. I teach courses on the political economy of information, race/class/gender/identity in tech, …
Radano, Ronald
Ronald Radano is an ethnomusicologist with a special interest in the history of US Black music and its transnational circulation. He approaches his subject through the interpretive mechanisms of social and cultural theory and history, …
Olaniyan, Tejumola
My deep interest is transdisciplinary teaching and research; my goal is the cultivation of critical self-reflexivity about our expressions and their many contexts.