Harriet Masembe (Ph.D. in African Languages & Literature, 1982) sends us news from Uganda. “This year,” she writes, “I am compiling for publication a collection of Uganda folktales to include several that I collected from …
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Samatar takes new position
Dr. Sofia Samatar, who had been teaching at California State University Channel Islands, has now assumed the position of Assistant Professor of English at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, beginning this Fall. Congratulations, Sofia!
Get to know Dr. Matthew Brown
Get to know alum Matthew Brown, now an assistant professor in our department. “Reading Different Kinds of Things: An Interview with Matthew H. Brown,” by doctoral student Kathryn Mara, has been added to her interview …
News from Kazeem Sanuth
Kazeem Sanuth, an alumnus of our MA program, is now a doctoral student in Second Language Acquisition, still here at UW-Madison, and recently sent news to SLA’s newsletter, Second Language Acquisition News Gazetee (SLANG). Read …
“Skin Feeling,” by Sofia Samatar
Alumna Sofia Samatar has a powerful new piece called “Skin Feeling” in The New Inquiry. “As a black academic, part of a tiny minority, I often feel hypervisible, exposed. Crossing a courtyard among the white …
Fiftieth Anniversary Alumni Weekend Symposium
Join us to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Department of African Languages & Literature On Friday 10 April 2015 we will welcome alumni, students, and faculty as we reflect on our past, present, and …
Fiftieth Anniversary Alumni Weekend a Success
On 10 and 11 April, we celebrated our fiftieth anniversary with a day and a half with current students, distinguished alumni, former staff, faculty, faculty emeriti, and old friends. Photographs taken by current graduate student …
Alum Christine Loflin speaks to Africa at Noon
Christine Loflin, Associate Professor of English at Oxford College at Emory University, earned her Ph.D. from UW-Madison’s English department in 1989, with a minor in African Languages and Literature. On Wednesday 8 October at 12 …