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Alumna Harriet Masembe sends news from Uganda, solicits folktales

Posted on April 10, 2019

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 …

Posted in NewsTagged alumni, alumni news, folktales, uganda

Samatar takes new position

Posted on August 18, 2016

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!

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Get to know Dr. Matthew Brown

Posted on March 29, 2016

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 …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged alumni, faculty, get to know us, interviews, matthew brown

News from Kazeem Sanuth

Posted on December 15, 2015

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 …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged alumni, kazeem sanuth, Nigeria

“Skin Feeling,” by Sofia Samatar

Posted on October 7, 2015

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 …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged alumni, creative nonfiction, sofia samatar

Fiftieth Anniversary Alumni Weekend Symposium

Posted on April 20, 2015

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 …

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Fiftieth Anniversary Alumni Weekend a Success

Posted on April 17, 2015

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 …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged alumni, fiftieth anniversary, photos

Alum Christine Loflin speaks to Africa at Noon

Posted on October 6, 2014

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 …

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