Professor Tejumola Olaniyan has been named Wole Soyinka Professor of the Humanities, effective July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2024. Funding for this professorship comes from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) which provides recognition …
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Thompson selected as BTAA-ALP fellow
Professor Katrina Daly Thompson has been selected by the Provost’s office as a fellow for the 2019- 2020 Big Ten Academic Alliance-Academic Leadership Program (BTAA-ALP). As an ALP fellow, Thompson will be part of a …
Bodies, skin, and interdisciplinary dialogue: An Interview with Vlad Dima
By Kathryn Mara I first contact Dr. Vlad Dima in order to invite him to be part of a panel discussing The Image Book at the Wisconsin Film Festival. When he happily agrees, I build …
Samuel England Receives Honored Instructor Award
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 …
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, …