The following interview was conducted by Ben Ale-Ebrahim and was originally published on CaMP Anthropology’s website. Ben Ale-Ebrahim: Muslims on the Margins is an ethnography of “nonconformist” Muslims living primarily in the United States and …
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Matthew Brown selected as 2023 winner of African Literature Association’s First Book Award
Associate Professor Matthew Brown was recently selected as the 2023 winner of the African Literature Association’s First Book Award. The award recognizes his book Indirect Subjects: Nollywood’s Local Address, which the ALA committee found …
Reginold Royston produces seminar at Ghana Studies Association conference
Reginold Royston of the UW-Madison Department of African Cultural Studies and his colleague, Seyram Avle of the University of Massachusetts Department of Communication, produced a seminar at the Ghana Studies conference this past summer. The …
Katrina Daly Thompson’s ‘Muslims on the Margins’ to be released in April
Katrina Daly Thompson’s Muslims on the Margins: Creating Queer Religious Community in North America offers vivid stories of nonconformist Muslim communities. The turn of the twenty-first century ushered in a wave of progressive Muslims, whose …
Matthew Brown Featured Speaker for ALA
The African Literature Association is hosting Matthew Brown who will discuss his book, Indirect Subjects: Nollywood’s Local Address (Duke 2021). Time: Saturday, January 22, 2022 at 11:00 AM EST; London, 4:00 PM; Lagos, 5:00PM; Johannesburg, …
Katrina Thompson Awarded Summer Stipend by NEH
Dr. Katrina Thompson has earned a Summer Stipend through the National Endowment for the Humanities. The stipend provides financial support for full-time work by a scholar on a humanities project for a period of …
Start with Achebe and go backward: An Interview with Ainehi Edoro
By Kathryn Mara On the elevator to the seventh floor of Helen C. White, I notice a particularly sharp-dressed woman in the lift beside me. We exit on the same floor but she heads left …
African 905: Cinematic Bodies: Aural Spaces in African Cinema
Fall 2019 Vlad Dima 3 credits T 2:30-5pm This seminar explores the narrative use of cinematic sound and diegetic bodies by francophone filmmakers beginning in 1966 with Ousmane Sembène’s Black Girl and all the way up …
African 700: Reading & Writing African Cultural Studies
Fall 2019 Ron Radano 3 credits M 1:20-3:15pm This is a course on academic writing, designed to guide graduate students toward a full understanding of the craft of marshaling evidence to support an argument in …
African 606: African Historical Fiction
Fall 2019 Luis Madureira 3 credits TF 3:30-5pm Fulfills Literature, Advanced We begin with the following question: what is at stake, aesthetically, ethically and politically, in African appropriations of the historical drama and novel? How …