ACADEMIC DEGREES
| Ph.D 1992 | Doctorat de 3ème cycle Paris VII University-African History “Urbanisme et architecture ‘créoles’ en Sierra Leone (18ème-19ème siècles)” [Creole urbanism and architecture in 18th & 19th century Sierra Leone] |
| Master’s 1979 | Paris IV-Sorbonne-Classics “L’image du Noir dans l’art et la littérature grecs, 5ème-1er siècle av. J.C.” [The image of Black people in Greek art and literature, 5th-1st century B.C.E.] |
| B.A. 1975-1977 | 2 years of preparation for École Normale Supérieure (ENS) at Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris-Classics (French, Latin, Greek) |
TEACHING & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
| Years | Description |
|---|---|
| 2021-2022 | SUNY Old Westbury-Chair, History & Philosophy Department |
| 2006-2021 | SUNY Old Westbury-Associate Professor, History & Philosophy |
| 2001-2006 | SUNY Old Westbury-Assistant Professor, Humanities & Languages |
| 2002-2005 | New School- Humanities & Social Sciences, Lecturer |
| 2006 & 2010 | CUNY Graduate Center, French Literature Lecturer |
| 2007-2008 | Rutgers University/Newark History/African-African American Studies/English |
| 2000-2002 | Metropolitan Museum, NY - Arts of Africa, Oceania & the Americas-Research Assistant |
| 1994-2001 | New York University, NY-French & Africana- Assistant Professor |
| 1989-1991 | Stanford University, CA- French: Lecturer/ English & African & Afro-American Studies: Research Assistant |
AREAS OF TEACHING SPECIALIZATION
African history, historiography, world history, cultural & diasporic studies, pan-Africanism, African & Caribbean literature, French history, literature & culture, early modern studies, African cinema, African arts.
SELECTED AWARDS & DISTINCTIONS
2022 Tyler Stovall Mission Prize, Western Society for French & Francophone History.
2022 Prince Claus Fund, Whiting Grant- Historian consultant for West African Heritage Consultants, Ldt the official grantee.
2017 Poetry Prize Louise Labé for Gestuaire
2017 Poetry Prize Lucienne Gracia-Vincent for La quête infinie de l’autre rive. Épopée en trois chants.
2018 PEN/Heim grant to poet Alexander Dickow to complete the English translation of La quête infinie de l’autre rive. Épopée en trois chants. Excerpt available on the PEN America. Freedom to Write site https://pen.org/from-heim-excerpt-pages-alexander-dickow/
“L’homme qui marche. The Walking Man” Temenos-Special Benefit Edition 2012 “Offsprings of an African River”: 20-21
SUNY Old Westbury Sabbaticals, Faculty Development & UUP grants 2006–2007-2012–2014-2016-2019
1st prize short fiction Bananafish journal contest (Spring/Summer 2000): 1-12 for “ I love Harlem”
Finalist of RATP 2d poetry contest. Paris: Relais H, 1999, 7 untitled poem, Des Rimes et des Rames.
NYU Golden Dozen Teaching Award 1998
Stanford U. Visiting Scholar 1989
IPES concours Fellowship recipient 1980
WORK IN PROGRESS
PALM 3 Page blanche
Bachir Touré : le grain de la voix, l’art de conduire son corps.
BOOKS
Le troc silenciux (forthcoming anthology) Hanser, 2023. German translation by Tim Trzaskalik
Introduction by Elara BerthoGestuaire, poèmes. Collection Blanche. Gallimard, 2016. Shortlisted for Prix Kowalsi des LycéensAwarded the 2017 Prix de poésie Louise Labé
The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore. An Epic in Three Cantos Wesleyan U. Press, 2022
English translation of La quête infinie de l’autre rive by Alexander Dickow.
Selected among the 100 most notable books on Africa by Brittle Paper (2022)
Excerpt won a runner-up place in journal Asymptote’s poety-in-translation competition of 1/15/14Die unendliche Suche nach dem anderen Ufer. German translation of La quête infinie de l’autre rive
by Tim Trzaskalik. Matthes & Seitz (2021).
Excerpt published in Schreibheft. Zeitschrift für Literature 88 (Spring 2017) 135-149La quête infinie de l’autre rive. Épopée en trois chants. Collection Continents Noirs. Gallimard, 2011.
Short-listed for Prix Mahogany 2012 and Prix des Découvreurs 2013. Awarded Prix Gracia-Vincent under the auspices of Foundation Saint-John PerseLagon, lagunes. Tableau de mémoire (with postface by Édouard Glissant). Collection Continents Noirs. Gallimard, 2000
Terres, urbanisme et architecture “créoles” en Sierra Leone (18ème-19ème siècles). L’Harmattan, 1998
(Editor of) Discours sur le métissage, identités métisses. En quête d’Ariel (Proceedings of conference organized at NYU on hybridity) L’Harmattan, 1999
CONSULTING
Advisory Board Member
PALM Journal of the Jeu de Paume Institute 2022
ITEM (CNRS-ENS) & UCAD Department of Modern Literatures International Research Group 2022
Fondation Mondiale pour le Mémorial et la Sauvegarde de Gorée 2019-present
Institute for Advanced Studies Université Gaston Berger & IFAN. Saint-Louis, Senegal 2021-present
Conférence Arts chrétiens du Congo. Université de Metz 05/12-13/2016
Conférence ANR MIPRIMO migrations transafricaines U. of Paris Descartes-Sorbonne 9-12/2013
African Studies consultant
Sciences Po Transatlantic Research Fund 12/22
UNESCO-sponsored children books on the legacy of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in partnership with Languages du Sud, a publisher based in Casablanca, Morocco 2021-present
ARTE France- Illégitime Défense “Charlie Parker- Bird Songs” (documentary), 1/9/22 at 11 pm
West African Heritage Consultants, Ltd. (NGO): SK launched concept of restoration of Sierra Leone Public Archives. Laison with Prince Claus Fund, UNESCO (Label “Slave Routes) & International Coalition for the Sites of Conscience. Participated in the digitization workshop for archivists and library students at Fourah Bay College (7/25/22-8/2/22).
UNESCO workshop Route de l’esclave/Changement de nom, 1/14/2022
“Commémorer les victimes de l’esclavage- Le Mémorial Gorée-Almadies” Musée des Civilisations noires, Dakar (Senegal), 4/27/2021
UN Outreach Program on Slavery & the Transatlantic Slave Trade “The Gorée Memorial Project” 3/26/2021
UN Seminar on Africa Programming on Education 10/24/1996
Editorial project Ecriv’en, Académie de Montpellier & Inspection Pédagogique régionale des Lettres et de la Délégation académique à l’éducation artistique et culturelle 2014-2018
Reading Committee member: Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders (a program of President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative) 01-02/2014
JURY
Member of Tyler Stovall Mission Prize Selection Committee Western Society for French History 2022
Head of Caribbean Prize Jury ADELF (Association des Écrivains de Langue Française) 2017-2021
MASTER CLASSES
Poetry & History. Macondo Literary Festival, Nairobi, 09/30/22
“Literature & Journalism” for young journalists selected by SenGermany. Dakar, Ejicom European Journalism Centre, 12/09/20
EDITORIAL PROJECTS
Faculty Advisor
Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts & Letters 1998-2002
NYU CAS Honor Scholars Trip to Senegal 9/1998-1/1999
Coordinator of the Africana Seminar Series for NYU Africana Studies Program (1995-1998)
Literary Director at Phoenix International Publishing, Collection “Mots & Mémoires” (2010-2014) Edited & prepared manuscripts for publication:
Altercultures by As Malick Ndiaye (2011)
Josephine Butler-A Collection of Poetry by Susan H. Maurer (2012)
Asphalte by Marie Sall (2013)
Member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Sociétés Africaines et Diaspora (9/98-2000); Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, NYU (1996-2000); Jonction/Tribune Africaine
Evaluator
Book-length manuscripts submitted to Oxford U. Press (8/11); State U. of New York Press (8/1999); Routledge.
Articles submitted to Antipodes (2018), Wadagabei (2/2008); Mots Pluriels (6/2002); Presence Francophone; Revue Internationale de langue et de literature (9/1999); Research in African Literatures (1995-2000), African Studies Review
Children’s Africana Book Award (2006 & 2009)
The Africana Program at Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY (2/2000)
Applications to CUNY Research Award program (12/19/1997)
ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWER
New York Public Library Oral History project “A People’s History of Harlem” (11/14- 11/16) http://oralhistory.nypl.org/neighborhoods/harlem See my interviews with Aisha al-Adawiya, Aubrey Lynch, Carl Karni-Bain, Dame Babu, Earl Davis, Gino Sitson, John Ellerbee, Kathleen O’Connor-Bater, Malick Fall, Mamadou Niang, Maria Rial, Mary Sumayah, Melba Joyce Bradford, Martine Barrat, Nabii Faison, Nathalie Knobloch & Daniel Martinez, Robert Weiss, Roger Parris, Sonia Barnett, Wardena Morrison, Yosvany Terry, Yata Kandé
CONFERENCE ORGANIZER
International colloquium sponsored by the Center for French Civilization & Culture and the Africana Studies program, “Looking for Ariel: Discourses on/of métissage,” NYU 4/4-5/1997
SELECTED ORAL & WRITTEN INTERVIEWS
A. Lee’s conversation with S. Kandé Book Buzz Journal of Expressive Writing 6/5/2022
H. de Groot in conversation with S. Kandé & A. Dickow Poetry off the Shelf 4/22/22 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/podcasts/157910/the-neverending-quest
“L’état de grâce” Entretien avec Michele Peretti Vivere Fermo 3/12/22 https://www.viverefermo.it/2022/03/13/ltat-de-grce/2100123885/
A. Dickow & Sylvie Kandé Trafika Europe Radio 2/14/2021 https://trafikaeurope.org/go/radio
N. Mensah Acogny “What is your story?” Acosphere Limited Interviews. Instagram 10/8/2020 https://lnkd.in/eXYzFT9
E. Bertho “Sur les traversées. Entretien avec Sylvie Kandé- Propos recueillis par Elara Bertho” Multitudes 76 (Automne 2019) 188-193
France Ô- TV program. Interview by Christian Tortel. Reading by Sonia Emmanuel. Paris 1/18/18 https://we.tl/dWAFjIouRO
“Lectures of Gangoueus” TV interview http://www.sudplateau-tv.fr/2017/08/07/les-lectures-de-gangoueus-invitee-sylvie-kande-pour-gestuaire/
“Mélancolie et quête de l’ailleurs” TV(2stv) interview by Sada Kane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37JZIX_DGtE
T. Trzaskalik & Sylvie Kandé, Schreibheft. Zeitschrift für Literature 88 (Spring 2017): 150-154
“Le poème comme geste”. Interview by E. Bertho https://diacritik.com/2017/03/13/entretien-avec-sylvie-kande-le-poeme-comme-geste/
E. Andrianjafitrimo (dir.) DVD Voyage en francophonie littéraire. Paroles d’élèves, paroles d’auteurs. Lycée français de Tananarive (11/2016)
“Translating the short stories of Alexis Wright- Sylvie Kandé talks to Demelza Hall about Le Pacte du serpent arc-en-ciel” Journal of the Association for the Studies of Australian Literature, 16, 2 (2016) https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/JASAL/article/view/10694
“Lectures of Gangoueus” TV interview http://www.sudplateau-tv.fr/2013/12/26/sylvie-kande/
Interview & translated excerpts of La quête infinie de l’autre rive, Ezra 7 (Fall 2013) www.ezratranslation.com/
“Toile métisse” N. Philippe ed. Paroles d’auteurs ! Afrique, Caraïbes, Océan Indien. La Cheminante, 2013, 83-94
“Black Atlantic : from History to Poetry” Interview by J. P. Dedieu (in French & in English) http://www.minorites.org/index.php/2-la-revue/1443-sylvie-kande-%C3%A2-the-black-atlantic-from-history-to-poetry.html republished in Newsletter of Africa on the Move http://www.scribd/doc/130200082/Africa-on-the-Move-Issue-4-January-March-2013
“Rencontre avec une écrivaine, une poète amatrice de jazz” Interview by F. Medioni Improjazz 192 (février 2013): 35-37
«Cartes postales» Italian translation with interview. El Ghibli, Rivista online di letteratura della migrazione, Anno 7, 31, March 2011 www.el-ghibli.provincia.bologna.it
“Sylvie Kandé entre deux rives” Interview by B. Mongo-Mboussa www.africultures.com/php/index. php%3
“Sylvie Kandé dans les remous d’une quête infinie” Interview by C. Sitchet www.afrik.com/article 22970.html
Medi-1 Radio La langue française vue d’ailleurs, 04/17/2000
SELECTED COMMENTARIES ON KANDÉ’S POETRY & SCHOLARSHIP
A. Lee “Sublimity” Journal of Expressive Writing 5/10/22 https://www.journalofexpressivewriting.com/_files/ugd/10c282_c43a559c278c40e28367ef62af76c8a8.pdf
A. Alexander Brittle Paper 3/29/22 https://brittlepaper.com/2022/03/14th-century-mali-is-the-inspiration-for-sylvie-kandes-the-neverending-quest-for-the-other-shore/
N. Bender “Was macht der Bauer auf hoher See” Literatur und Sachbuch (4/24/21): 10
N. Bender https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buecher/rezensionen/belletristik/sylvie-kande-die-unendliche-suche-nach-dem-anderen-ufer-17309179.html Frankfurter Allgemeine (5/27/21)
K. Petrovic SR2 Kulturradio https://www.sr.de/sr/sr2/themen/literatur/20210210_kande_sylvie_suche_nach_anderem_ufer_buchtipp_100.html
E. Bertho “Sylvie Kandé, marronner les récits pour dire les vies infâmes” Fixxion 21 (12/ 2020): 131-141
C. Mazauric “Donner voix au silence. Histoire tue et énonciation dans La quête infinie de l'autre rive de Sylvie Kandé” C. Mazauric & D. Rumeau, eds. Épopées postcoloniales, poétiques transatlantiques. Classiques Garnier 2020, 227-242
A. Perisic “Sylvie Kandé’s poetic remapping of the Atlantic” Francosphère (2019) 8, 1, 23-40 https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/.../franc.2019.2?
A. Dickow “The Contemporary Hero in Sylvie Kandé’s Epic of Futurity, La quête infinie de l’autre rive” Journal of Narrative Theory, 48, 3 (Fall 2018): 399-422
L. Joseph “La quête infinie de l’autre rive. Les éternels piroguiers ou le complexe de distanciation.” Intersections 3 Femmes en migritude (20018): 45-46
D. Combe « Sylvie Kandé, le ‘texte métis’ de la poésie », Études de lettres, 3-4 |(2017): 15-30
“Sylvie Kandé” https://la-plume-francophone.com
C. Gueboguo “Gestuaire de Sylvie Kandé” http://africultures.com/de-traduction-geste-a-etre-apprivoise-linfini-langage-poetique/
J. F. Duclos “Creative works-Gestuaire” French Review (Oct 2017): 256 & 269-270 http://www.lacauselitteraire.fr/gestuaire-sylvie-kande
T. Trzaskalik “Le pèse-gestes de S. Kandé” https://www.sitaudis.fr/Parutions/gestuaire-de-sylvie-kande.php
www.lemonde.fr/livres/.../trans-poesie-bande-annonce_5052790_3… -
http://www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2016/12/06/la-beaute-du-geste/
S. Riva, « Pour une ethnologie du présent en littérature » Journal des anthropologues 148-149 (2017) 203-224
T. Trzaskalik “Die Poesie äussert sich. Dreimal französische Courage: Philippe Beck, Sylvie Kandé, Dominique Quélen” Schreibheft 88 (Spring 2017): 155-158
M. Ménaché “Gestuaire. Notes de lecture” Europe 1055 (March 2017): 312-314
C. Mazauric “Quitter ses terres : néo-épopées au Sénégal (sur La quête infinie de l'autre rive de Sylvie Kandé et Mbëkë mi d'Abasse Ndione)” A. Seck, C. Canut, M. A. Ly, eds. Figures et discours de migrants en Afrique. Mémoires de routes et de corps, Riveneuve, 2015, 15-33
C. Mazauric “Voyages au féminin et subjectivations transafricaines” C. Canut & C. Mazauric, eds. La Migration prise aux mots. Mise en récit et en images des migrations transafricaines, Cavalier Bleu, 2014, 47-61
“Sylvie Kandé” Muze (juillet-septembre 2013): 56-57
M. Harzoune hommesmigrations.revues.org/658
M. Steinmetz “Retour de l’épopée sur de frêles embarcations” Humanité, 4/21/2011
Nimrod "Sylvie Kandé, la nouvelle Ulysse” Africultures, 3/14/2011 africultures.com/sylvie-kande-la-nouvelle-ulysse-9993/
J. Waters “Packaging the Francophone ‘African’ novel: a New Exoticism?” J. K.S. Makokha & R. Barasa. eds. Tales, Tellers & Tale-Making. Critical Studies on Literary Stylistics and Narrative Styles in Contemporary African Literature. VDM Verlag Dr. Muller, 2010, 26-35
S. Gikandi “Africa and the Signs of Medievalism” N. Altschul & K. Davis, eds. Medievalism in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of “the Middle Ages” outside Europe. John Hopkins U. Press, 2009, 369-381
A. Irele “The Poetic Legacy of Aimé Césaire” French Politics, Culture & Society 27, 3 (2009): 81-97
E. Mfaboum Mbiafu Présence Africaine, 163-164 (2001): 236-237
D. N’Goran “Travers et traversée du monde : une lecture de Lagon, lagunes, tableau de mémoire de Sylvie Kandé” Revue de l'Université de Moncton 37, 1 (2006): 183-201
S. Riva “Le mouvement qui déplace les lignes. Afriques têtues, Caraïbes envoilées, Europes mythiques” in Lagon, Lagunes de Sylvie Kandé” E. Galazzi, G. Bernardelli, eds. Lingua, cultura, testo : miscellamea di studi francesi in onore di Sergio Cigada. Vita e Pensiero, 2003,1073-1086
STAGING, VOICING: PERFORMANCES OF/WITH KANDÉ’S WORK (POETRY)
Poem for Marcel Gbeffa’ chorography on Egungun (forthcoming)
Poem for Violaine Lauchu & Marcel Gbeffa’s choreography on Twinness & History Paris-Cottonou, 12/22
Bernard Gabay, Reading of poems from Gestuaire. Paris, Maison de La Wallonie, 1/18/18
Chrystel Petitgas, Marion Bourdain et Clotilde Guérineau Complete reading “La quête infinie de l’autre rive. Épopée en trois chants”. Station-Théâtre, La Mézière, 05/20/2017
Sonia Emmanuel & Jean Pierlot “Musaïques”. Lettres-sur-Cour. Musée archéologique St Romain-en-Gal, 06/29/2012
Momar D. Kane “Io l’Africaine”. Paris: Théâtre du Lucernaire, 02/03/2009
ANTHOLOGIES, COLLECTIONS & JOURNALS (SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS)
“Paul, Jacques et la futilité des mots” Textes d’écrivains French/English “Where are we going?” Albertine, 2022 https://villa-albertine.org/magazine/where-are-we-going-paul-gauguin-and-jacques-brel-wonder.
“Dreaming, writing, healing” 4/14/22 https://www.journalofexpressivewriting.com/post/that-language-i-yearn-for-when-i-write
“sans histoire/s” Multitudes 76 (Automne 2019) 182-187
“Abada” Das Nashorn 85, Angoulême: Alexandrandre Clérisse, May 2018
“Femme qui migre n’est pas pierre qui roule” Intersections 3, 2017, 9
“Lagon, lagunes (extrait)” B. Doucey, Nimrod & C. Poslaniec, eds. 120 nuances d’Afrique. Bruno Doucey, 2017, 56-57
“Deux poèmes” Po&sie 157-158 Afriques 2, 2016, 206-208
“sans titre” La poésie, pour quoi faire ? 2. Une enquête J.-M. Maulpoix, ed. Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2011, 99-107
“Cartes postales” Europe 976-977, August-September 2010, 282-289
RFI & Gallimard CD “Romans d’Afrique. Neuf romans et nouvelles à écouter”, 2012
“Excerpt of Lagon, lagunes” Anthologie Littéraire 10e année - textes choisis : Auteurs contemporains de la littérature mondiale, Alberta, Canada: Learning Resources Center, 2007, 65-67
3 poems G. Johnson, ed. Tribute. A Rainbow of Praises. Blind Beggar Press, 2007, 60-86
2 poems Transition 100, 2009, 52-55
“In this Goddamned Messed-up Land”, S. Gray, ed. The Picador Book of African Stories. Macmillan 2000, 56-62
“Dans ce sacré foutu pays”, La Nouvelle Revue Française 553, March 2000, 178-186
“sans titre” Des rimes et des rames. Finalistes du 2è concours de poésie RATP. Relais H Paris, 1999, 7
PREFACES, POSTFACES & BACK COVERS
The Last Train by Mervyn Taylor. (blurb)
Voix d’ici et d’ailleurs by Paul Dakeyo. Silex/Nouvelles du Sud, 2020 (forthcoming)
Kouglo’s Shedding by Olympe Bhely-Quenum “Kouglo’s Shedding: turning the page, becoming a writer” (accepted)
Accotements by Maurice Kamto. Silex/Nouvelles du Sud, 2020
Commencer dans le noir. Impulsion de Harlem by Christine Sitchet. Teham Editions, 2019, 235-248
Josephine Butler-A Collection of Poetry by Susan H. Maurer, 2012
Altercultures by As Malick Ndiaye, 2011
SELECTED INVITATIONS (LITERATURE)
Loyola U Maryland Hanna Geldrich-Leffman Language, Literature, and Society Colloquium “Women & Poetry” 4/12/23
Reading & Q&A with Danielle Legros-George, Transnational Literature Series, Brookline Booksmith, MA 11/10/22
Macondo Literary Festival Nairobi, Kenya 9/30-10/2/22
Readings & discussion- Class visit. Hausacher Lese Lenz Festival. Hausack, Germany 7/15-18/22
Nuit des Idées. Villa Albertine. “Where Are We Going. A Bus Journey” New York 5/21/22
Reading & Q&A with Danielle Legros-George, Grolier Poetry Book Store, Cambridge, MA, 5/18/22
Reading & Q&A with Alex Dickow, Globus Lecture “Out of Africas: Epic, Migration, and Translation”, Baruch College, NYC, 4/12/22
ALA lecture series- roundtable on African migrations- Sylvie Kandé & Benjamin Kwakye 12/4/22
Table-ronde “Poésie, mythe, épopée. En conversation avec Christiane Seydou” Salon du Livre africain. Paris 09/26/21
Reading, 30 ans du Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde. Maison de la Poésie, Paris 10/22/20
“Édouard Glissant & the Poetics of Hospitality”. Symposium “Édouard Glissant’s Tout Monde: Transnational Perspectives” Henri Peyre French Institute & the Center for the Humanities at CUNY Graduate Center in conjonction with the Americas Society, CUNY, 11/16/18
Reading, Festival des cinq continents NYU/Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, Cornelia St Cafe, NY 4/6/18
Reading & Q & A, Librairie Guillaume, Laval 1/19/18
Reading, Symposium Ruben Dario at 150 years, SUNY Old Westbury, 10/4/2017
“Poésie et pélerinage” Fête de la Terre, Fontaine Daniel, Mayenne 9/1/17
Reading & Q&A, Les Yeux Gourmands Bookstore & Federation Wallonie Bruxelles, Belgium 7/6/17
Reading & discussion of Gestuaire, Fontaine Daniel, Mayenne 5/18/17
Reading & discussion of Gestuaire, Maison de la Poésie de Rennes 5/23/17
Readings & discussions, Salon du livre et de la presse, Genève. 4/28-4/29/17
Round tables & readings. Video contributions to “Instants Poésie” & “Interview Sylvie Kandé-Bruce Clarke”. Printemps des Poètes U. of Aix-Marseille & Fondation Saint John Perse 3/16-3/18/17
TV program France Ô “Page 19” Interview with Daniel Picouly on Gestuaire 1/24/17 http://www.telepoche.fr/programme-tv/fiche-emission/page-19-124912457/diffusions/page-19-153385737
Reading of La quête infinie de l’autre rive followed by Q&A, Conference “Le porteur/Der Träger”, Bibliothèque départementale, St-Denis, La Réunion 5/2/16 & U. de la Réunion, Faculté de Droit et de Lettres 5/6/16
“Epics & Subalternity” Africa Workshop, Dept of African American Studies. U. of Michigan 1/14/13
Conférence ANR MIPRIMO mise en récits et en images des migrations trans-africaines- U. of Paris-Descartes, Round Table 12/14/13
Reading with Carl de Souza, Ambassade de France, New Delhi, India 11/14/13
Aimé Césaire 100th Birthday Symposium Round Table, Africa Workshop, U. of Michigan, 10/8/13
A Centennial Celebration of Aimé Césaire, Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center, NY- Round Table “Césaire et la mémoire” & reading of Césaire’s Notebook 10/4/13
“On Being Equivocally African” Lecture & reading- Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Conference & Reading, 02/05/13
Reading with Fabienne Raphoz, Maison de la Poésie de Rennes 1/17/13
Lycée Berthelot et Lillers, Lilles ; Lycée Champollion, Montpellier ; Lycée Jean Guehenno, Fougères, Lycée Jean Brito de Bain de Bretagne 1/10-17/13
U. Paris XII Séminaire on littératures francophones d'Europe, des Antilles, du Pacifique Sud 1/16/13
TV program France O-Tropismes with Laure Adler 3/21/12
Round-table & readings at conference “Saint-John Perse, Césaire, Glissant : regards croisés” Institut du Tout-Monde, Bibliothèque Nationale de France & UNESCO, Paris 9/21/12
Festival Lettres-sur-Cour “Musaïques » Vienne 6/29-7/8/12
Reading & Q & A, Librairie Joli Mai, Bruxelles, 6/23/12
Reading, Maison de la Poésie, Paris “Retour à l’épopée” 6/12/12
College Verlaine, Lycée Berthelot, Lycée Jean-Bart. Participation to Babel Littéraire at Lycée Berthelot- Reading at Thelema Arts House - Lille, Caen, Boulogne 4/18-21/12
Observatoire Culturel de la Diversité & Printemps des Poètes, Les Lilas 3/09/12
CUNY Graduate Center, Conference “Sentimental Geographies” 2/24/12
Institute of African Studies & La Maison Française- Columbia U., NY 11/14/11
TV program France O- Studio M with Marie Jose Ali 3/25/11
Salon du Livre, Paris 3/2011
“Métissage and Francophone Literature” Pi Delta Phi Induction ceremony - St John’s U., NY 04/22/10
Conference “Métissage and inter-culturalisme” & Semaine de la Francophonie. Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio e Letterature Straniere Comparate, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy & French Cultural Center. 3/14/06
Blind Beggar Press reading series at Londel’s, Harlem 4/18/04
“A Reading of African Diaspora Poets” sponsored by the Ford Foundation, St-Louis, Mi 9/8/03
Teachers & Writers Collective, NY 4/12/02
“Many Thousand Gone: African Diaspora Poets Read for Peace”, Center for Research in African American Studies, Columbia U., NY12/12/01
Semaine de la Francophonie. Services Culturels Français, Atlanta 3/18-21/01
“FestAfrica”, Lille 11/7-12/00
“Back Fence”, NY 11/22/00
“Maison de l’Amérique Latine”, Paris 5/27/00
“La prison, parlons-en”, Café littéraire de la Fnac, Paris 3/21/00
“Mosaïque”, French Cultural Services, London 3/16-18/00
“Librairie africaine”, Salon du Livre, Paris 3/16-22/00
“La Hune”, Paris 3/9/00
“Illuminations: African Writers on the World Stage”. Fiction & Poetry readings, Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. 5/7/99
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS & DICTIONARIES
Routlege Handbook of French History “The French dimension of the Atlantic slavery system” (in progress)
“Thelonious Monk : nom, renom et résistance” Franck Médioni, ed. Mystère Monk. Seghers (forthcoming)
“Jean-Marie Adiaffi : l’art du décalage” Jean-Marie Adiaffi Ade. Entre éclairs et foudres.Vallesse Éditions, Abidjan, 2021 99-104
“Les Créoles de Sierra Leone: une errance enracinée” UNESCO Histoire générale de l’Afrique/General History of Africa. IX, 3 (forthcoming)
“L’épique et le subalterne” C. Mazauric & D. Rumeau, eds. Épopées postcoloniales, poétiques transatlantiques. Classiques Garnier 2020, 243-259
“‘Ach, wäre ich doch Pygmäe!’ Die Figur des Babinga-Trägers in Le silence de la forêt von Bassek ba Kobhio” S. Malzner & A. D. Peiter, eds. Der Träger. Zu einer »tragenden« Figur der Kolonialgeschichte. Transcript Verlag, 2018, 283-302
“Lettre à Miles ?” F. Medioni, ed. Lettres à Miles. Alter-Ego, 2016: 87-90
“Cicéron et les sans-papiers” C. Canut & C. Mazauric, eds. La Migration prise aux mots. Paris: Le Cavalier Bleu, 2014, 281-284
“Une certaine irrésolution —Notes sur le concert de Cologne de Keith Jarrett” F. Médioni, ed. My Favorite Things. Le Tour du Jazz en 80 écrivains. Alter Ego, 2013: 124-129
“Ahmadou Kourouma” T. Ojaide, ed. Dictionary of Literary Biography-Contemporary African Authors. Bruccoli Layman Clark, Inc w/ Gale Research, 2011: 122-132
“Caste as a subtext in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Suns of Independence and Monnew” N. Altschul & K.Davis, eds. Medievalism in the Postcolonial World: The Idea of “the Middle Ages” outside Europe. Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2009: 301-324
“Métissage”- “Nyama”- “Thomas Sankara”- “Sartre et Africa”- “Slavery” Abiola Irele & Biodun Jeyifo, eds. Encyclopedia of African Thought. Oxford U. Press, 2009: 302-304; 121-124; 172-177; 339-345; 306-310.
“Africa: I. History 1. Overview . 2. Colonial Period” – II. “Political and Cultural Agendas” III. “Art and Literature” - “Josephine Baker,”- “Béatrice of the Congo,” & “Dahomey Women Warriors” Fedwa Malti-Douglas, ed. Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender. Gale Group, Inc., 2007: 23-32
“Mamie Till Mobley” - “Adrian Piper” African-American National Biography. Harvard U. Press, 2007: 603-604 & 360-362
“‘This corpse so small left unavenged’: Nicolás Guillén and Aimé Césaire on Emmett Till’s Lynching” C. Metress & H. Pollack, eds. Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination. U of Louisiana Press, 2008, 143-160
“Africa and the European Renaissance” S. Gikandi & A. Irele, eds. Cambridge History of African & Caribbean Literature, 2004, 569-590
“Look Homeward, Angel: Maroons & Mulattoes in Haile Gerima’s Sankofa” K. Harrow, ed. African Cinema: Postcolonial & Feminist Readings. Africa World Press, 1999, 89-114 (republication)
“Remarques liminaires” Sylvie Kandé ed. Discours sur le métissage, identités métisses. L’Harmattan, 1999, 13-34
Article on Marie Ndiaye’s novel En famille, Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires négro-africaines de langue française, vol II, A. Kom ed., International Scholars Publications, 1997, 198-200
Article on Tchicaya U tam’ Si’s collection of short-stories, La Main sèche, Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires négro-africaines de langue française, vol II, A. Kom ed., International Scholars Publications, 1997, 318-321
“Les coulisses d'une terminologie: l’ethnie créole de Sierra Leone” C. Coquery-Vidrovitch ed., Histoire africaine du 20ème siècle. Sociétés, villes, cultures. L’Harmattan, 1993, 127-149
ESSAYS IN JOURNALS, PERIODICALS & WEBSITES
“Le Mémorial de Gorée, barque ouverte” Afrig-Mag, 2/22-5/22/21: 42-44
“La Voie de la Plume : Aly Ndiaye alias Webster et Sylvie Kandé en conversation” The Goose 19, 1 (2021) e-Race-sures
“Poétique du désoubli dans Sous le rideau, la petite valise brune de Françoise Thiry” Cahiers Internationaux de Symbolisme 155-156-157 (2020): 187-195
“‘Nous prenons parti pour les Indes renouvelées’ : Édouard Glissant au risque du Sud faulknérien” NRF 646 (janvier 2021): 36-42
“Medievalism at the Met” “Medievalism in the Age of COVID-19: A Collegial Plenitude” R. Utz, ed. Medievally Speaking, May 4, 2020 https://medievallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2020/05/medievalism-in-age-of-covid-19.html
“Poids et mesures: Kane, Kundera et Parménide” Atelier du roman 100 “Milan Kundera” (3/2020): 75-80
“Chaka et l’arbre du Bokoné”Atelier du roman 98 (9/2019): 26-33
“Contourner l’Afrique, Djibouti et le reste” Europe 1081 Malcolm de Chazal (5/2019): 117-123
“Femme qui migre n’est pas pierre qui roule” Intersections 3 Femmes en migritude (2018): 9
“L’imaginaire du genre et du voyage au Soudan médiéval” Cahiers Internationaux de Symbolisme 143-145 (2016): 137-142
“Écriture et migration”, Médiapart http://blogs.mediapart.fr/edition/les-invites-de-mediapart/article/121213/ecriture-et-migration
“Et si les chiens ne se taisaient plus ? Une lecture d’En famille et de Ladivine de Marie Ndiaye” Siècle 21 24 (Spring-Summer 2014): 168-176
“Uchronies africaines. Relire “Le Voltaïque” et La quête infinie de l’autre rive” Écrire l’Histoire 12 (11/ 2013): 143-148
“Obama, Sandy et l’ordre post-racial” Combats magazine http://www.combats-magazine.org/fr/?p=691
“Hommage à Edouard Glissant”, Glissant-Monde, Africultures 87 (03/2012): 46-49
“Les Indes : une épopée de la raison océane” Siècle 21, 19 (automne-hiver 2011): 121-128
“Africa 1990s-present : Tragedies, Triumphs and Challenges” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultures- Africana Age website http://exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-africa-2010.html
“Obama : l’élu des votants et des non-votants issus de l’immigration africaine” Le Soleil (11/25/2008) Rubrique : International
“La Diaspora africaine en Amérique latine à l’écran” Africultures 60 (July-September 2004): 228-234 (www.africultures.com/index.asp?menu=affiche_article&no=3428)
Editorial: “Un automne à New York” Africultures 44 (01/2002): 5-9
« Quant au Bronx… » on ‘Urban Mythologies’ exhibit at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Africultures 44 (January 2002): 64-66
“The trans-Saharan gold trade (7th-14th century)” & “The Fulani/Fulbe people and their art” Metropolitan Museum of New York Art History Timeline www.metmuseum.org
“La période française de Richard Wright: l’art du haiku”, Sociétés africaines & diaspora, 12 (septembre 2001): 217-221
“Panorama de la situation du français- Point de vue” Le Français à l’université. Agence Universitaire de la francophonie. Montréal, 5ème année, numéro 2 (2ème trimestre 2000)
“Hommage au Sénégal à l’Alliance Française de New York, 3-22-27/99” Le Soleil, (4/12/99): 6
“Freetown: ville du retour, ville nouvelle, ville libre ?” & “Freetown: Krio heritage hit by war” The Chronicle-Changing Black Britain 6 (1999)
“From Bandiagara to Paris: Reflections on the Travels of a Dogon Sign” Research in African Literatures, Poetics of African Arts, 31, 4 (Winter 1998): 21-28
“Les vases communicants: oralité et écriture dans la littérature française et francophone” Colloquium at Columbia U., 11/21/98 Sociétés africaines et diaspora, 11 (09/98): 215-220
“Jazz et littérature francophone” Mots Pluriels 13 (April 2000) (www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels) [selected by the Oxford Text Archive, a corpus use for the teaching of French language and research on the features of written French expression.]
“Look Homeward, Angel. Maroons & Mulattoes in Haile Gerima’s Sankofa” Research in African Literatures, 29, 2 (Summer 1998): 128-146
“Les ‘Créolistes’: des post-césairiens ou des anticésairiens ?” Notre Librairie 127 (juillet-septembre 1996): 70-82
“Renoncements et victoires dans La Rue Cases-Nègres de Joseph Zobel” Revue Francophone de Louisiane IX, 2 (Autumn 94): 5-24
“Ce que suggère le titre…” Notre Librairie 119 (oct-dec 1994): 151-153
“Renunciation and Victory in Black Shack Alley” Research in African Literatures 25, 2 (Summer 1994):33-50
“Pour ceux qui regardent les artistes passer sur la scène. Ton beau capitaine de Simone Schwarz-Bart” Notre Librairie, special issue (September 93): 44-46
“ L’anthropologie contemporaine et le concept d’ethnie” Cahiers de Jussieu (1985): 91-105
BOOK/ART REVIEWS
Tierno Monenembo Saharienne Indigo
La verticale du cri de Gaston-Paul Effa
“À propos d’Écrire l’eau le vent le ciel de Michel Gravil” http://prix-de-poesie.wixsite.com/gracia-vincent/copy-of-prix-2017
“Getting Lite de Martine Barrat” Dossier de presse.La Place-Centre culturel Hip Hop, Paris (oct 2018)
“Questions d’identité. Pourquoi et comment être breton by Rozenn Millin” Peuple breton 635 (12/16): 42
“Les mains de Martine” (on Martine Barrat’s photography) Afrikadaa 9 (05/ 2015): 38-39
“The Real Story of the Superheroes by Dulce Pinzón” Autrepart 67-68 (2013-2014): 281-283
“Le corps du texte. Une lecture d’Un balcon sur l’Algérois de Nimrod” Afrikadaa 7 (05/ 2014): 11-14
“Caramboles by Alexander Dickow” Ezra translation 7, 2 (Spring 2013) www.ezratranslation.com/
“La natte parlante by Alex Coly” Cultures Sud http://www.culturessud.com/contenu.php?id=757
“Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable” Afrique-Asie 74 (01/2012): 86-87
“La Raparille by Fadel Dia” Présence Africaine 179, 1st semester 2009
“La Raparille by Fadel Dia” Seneweb http://www.seneweb.com/news/lpv.php?artid=30194 3/22/10
“Sénégal, notre pirogue by Roland Colin” Seneweb http://seneweb.com 2/1/09
“Dreams of Africa in Alabama by Sylviane Diouf” Cahiers d’Études Africaines, 192 (2008): 889-894
“Carthage ou la flamme du brasier by Bernadette Cailler” Research in African Literatures 39, 4 (Winter 2008): 157-159
“Dreams of Africa in Alabama: the Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America by Sylviane Diouf” QBR www.qbr.com (February 08)
“Afrique sur Seine. Une nouvelle génération de romanciers africains à Paris by Odile Cazenave” Présence Francophone 69 (2007): 183-189
“Stormwitch by Susan Vaught” Sankofa. A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature, 5 (2006): 100
“Stormwitch by Susan Vaught” AfricaAccessReview, Fall 2006. http://www.africaaccessreview.org/db/db.cfm
“Women and the Amistad Connection by Filomina Chioma Steady”, Research in African Literatures, 35.4 (Winter 2004): 180-185
“Sugar and Scars. Review of O. Sembene’s short story ‘Tribal Scars’” First of the Month (3/1/01): 15
"Haiku-This Other World by Richard Wright" Le Soleil (12/2/99): 6-7
"Champs de bataille et d’amour by Veronique Tadjo” Notre Librairie 138 (9/99-3/00): 18-9
"Maurice Delafosse by Jean-Loup Amselle & Emmanuelle Sibeud” Cahiers d’Études Africaines XL, 1, 157 (2000):165-166
"Haiku-This Other World by Richard Wright" Quarterly Black Book Review 6, 3 (May-June 99): 14-15
"Black Paris. The African Writers’ Landscape by Benetta Jules-Rosette” Modern Fiction Studies 45, 4 (Winter 1999: 1072-1074)
"Selected speeches of Kwame Nkrumah compiled by Samuel Obeng” African Book Publishing Record 25, 1, 1999
“Servants of Allah: African Muslims enslaved in the Americas by Sylviane A. Diouf” Quaterly Black Book Review (January-February 1999): 34-35
“The Mestizo as Crucible. Andean & African Poets of Mixed Origin as Possibility of Comparative Poetics by Christine de Lailhacar” Sulfur 43 (Fall 1998): 196-199
“L’écriture décentrée by Michel Laronde, ed.” Sub-Stance 87, XXVII, 3 (1998): 136-141
“The Mestizo as Crucible. Andean & African Poets of Mixed Origin as Possibility of Comparative Poetics by Christine de Lailhacar” Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire 29 (Spring-Summer 1998):6 9-71
“The Senegalese Novel by Women. Through their Own Eyes by Susan Stringer” Research in African Literatures 28, 2 (Summer 1997): 177-179
“Francophone African Women Writers. Destroying the Emptiness of Silence by Irène d’Almeida” Research in African Literatures 27, 2 (Summer 96): 226-229
“Entretiens avec Maryse Condé” by Francoise Pfaff” Research in African Literatures, vol 26, 2 (Summer 1995): 202-206
“Un attieke pour Elgass by Tierno Monenembo” Notre Librairie 119 (oct-dec 94): 179-181
SELECTED PAPERS, lectures, and conference presentations
“Les bibliothèques intérieures d’une Afro-grecque”, Colloque et université d’été du Grand Paris FRAPP “Francophonies- Plurilinguismes: Politique des langues- Hommage à Papa Samba Diop. Créteil, Paris 6/20-6/22
Round-Table on “The Egyptian Labor Corps” with Kyle Anderson (author), Sylvie Kandé, Robert Vitalis & Alia Mossalam, SUNY OW 3/15/22
“Ship Culture in 18th-19th century Sierra Leone” ALA, Digital Africa: Collaborative Mapping of the Built Environment with “Bright Insight” 11/19/21
Keynote “Race et métissage”, Les Afriques dans le Monde. U. Of Bordeaux, Sciences Politiques 6/28/21
“Les épopées africaines savantes: l’exemple de Chaka” Hommage to Lilyan Kesteloot. Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, Bruxelles, 6/25/2021 zoom presentation
Round-Table around special issue of L’Atelier du Roman on Mofolo’s Chaka with Lakis Proguidis, Henri Lopes & Boniface Mongo-Mboussa - Musée du Quai Branly, Paris 10/17/19
“Medieval Mobilities: the Social Life of African Ivory and Lexicon in ‘Early Modern’ Europe. Leeds International Medieval Congress, U.K. 7/2/19
“‘Slavery as told to my daughter’”: in praise of Christiane Taubira, a political & cultural influencer of African descent in contemporary France” Gender Talks, SUNY Old Westbury 3/12/19
Ouvrir la Voix by Amandine Gay: screening of documentary & discussion- 21st Century New African and African Diaspora Writings and Arts programs. Institute of African American Affairs & Center for Black Visual Culture, NYU, 2/26/19
“Édouard Glissant beyond walls” MLA round-table discussion, NY 1/4/18
M.C. Closing night African Diaspora International Film Festival. Screening of Kemtiyu-Cheikh Anta Diop & performance by Randy Weston. Columbia U. Teachers’ College NY, 12/10/17
“Si seulement j’étais Pygmée ! La figure du porteur Babinga dans Le Silence de la forêt de Bassek Ba Kobhio” Conférence “Le porteur/Der Träger.” St-Denis, La Réunion, 5/4/16
“Exil et bibliothèque” Conférence Étudier l’exil, Collège d’Études Mondiales. Aix & Marseille 5/21/15
Keynote 29th International Annual Congress of Medievalism.Transfers of Cultures: Medievalism of the Move- Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, GA10/25/14
“Biographie de Bachir Touré” 3ème rencontre des Études Africaines en France. Bordeaux, France 7/2/14
“L’épique et le subalterne” Journée d’étude sur l’épopée, U. Toulouse-Le Mirail. Toulouse, France 6/12/14
Conference “Africa beyond Africa- Kongo across the Waters,” Georgia Tech-Ivan Allen College. Atlanta, GA 5/16/14 (Discussant)
“Construction of Otherness in Le Silence de la Forêt de Bassek Ba Khobio and La Pirogue de Moussa Touré” Conference on Francophone Cinema, College of New Rochelle, NY 4/11/14
“Bachir Touré : mettre en voix l’écriture poétique francophone” Conference Francophonies postcoloniales. New Delhi, India 11/9/13
Moussa Touré’s La Pirogue Festival ADIFF, NYIT Auditorium. New York 11/30/12 (Discussant)
“French and Francophone Cinema in Dialogue” Conference at Columbia U, New York 2/13/12
“Hommage à Edouard Glissant” Graduate Center, CUNY, New York 3/4/2011
Round-table on African Independences, Africajarc. Cajarc, France 7/25/10
“Les Nini, les Anna et les Toinette: le métissage comme trope de l’excès chez Sadji”. Conférence Abdoulaye Sadji, Maison Française Columbia U, New York 04/16/10
Mellon Humanities Summer Institute at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultures. “Africa-Triumphs, Tragedies and Challenges, 1980-1999” New York 7/10/08
“Richard Wright’s Haiku: This Other World or the Foreigner’s Home” Richard Wright Conference. American U., Paris 06/21/08 (Chair of panel and panelist)
International Conference “Kwahulé: frères de son, frères de scène” U. of Paris III & IV, 4/11/08
Mellon Humanities Summer Institute at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Cultures. “Africa-Triumphs, Tragedies and Challenges, 1980-1999.” New York 7/20/07
“A Hermeneutic Reading of Senghor’s Poem Chaka” Conference “Leopold Sédar Senghor, the Ancestor” Harvard U, Boston, MA 10/20/06
“Samba, Adèle and Adèle: authentic hybrids and monstruous métis in C.H. Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure” Princeton U., N.J. 10/7/06
“Othering the Kin: Accents & Scars in Edwidge Danticat’s Farming of Bones” Conference “Requiem for Trujillo: An Interdisciplinary Approach to “La Fiesta del Chivo” Hispanic & Latino Cultural Center, SUNY- Old Westbury & Instituto Cervantes, NY 4/8/06
Conference “The Ends of Post-Colonial Theory.” Princeton U, NJ 9/23/05 (discussant)
“The caste system as a sub-text in Kourouma’s Suns of Independence”, Conference “Ahmadou Kourouma: a Conversation about his work and Human Rights Legacy in Africa” CUNY Graduate Center,12/10/04
“The African Woman in a Global Age” U. of North Carolina. Charlotte, 5/4/04
Keynote “The African-Latin American Interface” Conference “Africa & Latin America: Forging New Identities through Film, Literature & Music” SUNY-Plattsburg, NY 10/5/01
"De la transgression" Conference “ Migration, Memory & Trace” NYU/CUNY 4/21/01
“Women Writers & Transgression” Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA 3/20/01
"The Nova-Scotian Revolution in Sierra Leone" Conference “Fighting Back: African Strategies against Slave Trade” Rutgers U, N.J., 2/17/01
“Amadou Hampaté Bâ and Fulani Oral Literature” Francophone Issues Exploratory Group, U. of Minnesota Minneapolis, 4/14/00
“Women and the Haitian Revolution” Conference “Women of African Descent in Latin America and The Caribbean” Baruch College, NY 3/24/00
“Jazz and Francophone Literature” Conference on the Jazz Age in Paris, U of Montana Missoula, 2/16/00
“Jazz and Francophone Literature”, ASA of Australasia and the Pacific Conference “New African Perspectives,” St-George’s College, U of Western Australia, Perth, 11/26-28/99
“Fictions métisses: Un homme pareil aux autres de René Maran”, French Dept, UVA Charlottesville, 10/29/99
“Ousmane Sembene’s Camp de Thiaroye” Museum for African Art, NY, 6/27/99
“The Signaras of St-Louis and Gorée” Lehman College. Bronx, NY 4/21/99
“Jazz et littérature francophone: prolégomènes à une esthétique métisse”, Columbia U, Maison Française. NY, 4/12/99
“Panorama de la littérature sénégalaise francophone” Semaine de la Francophonie à l’Alliance Française, NY 3/24/99
“Francophone African literature: Signs and Voices of Women” Conference “Who Speaks for African Women ? Partnerships for Change” Columbia U. Institute of African Studies & the Africa Fund, NY 3/10/99
“Djibril Diop Mambety’s Tuki Buki and Le Franc" 6th Annual African Film Diaspora Festival, Brooklyn NY 12/8/98
“Amadou Hampate Ba and Fulani Oral Literature” NYU Faculty Colloquium on Orality, Writing & Culture, NY 11/2/98
“Immigrant African children and their families: their contribution to the classroom” Central Park Historical Society, NY 7/14/98
“History & Culture of Africa: the Signaras of St-Louis and Gorée” NYU Auson Seminar, 4/2/98
NYU Film Festival “Colours of Screens” (Transforming the Crown exhibit) NY, 3/6/98 (discussant)
“Reflexions autour d’un emblème: Présence Africaine” Présence Africaine’s 50th Anniversary. Paris, 12/4/97
“Directions in Francophone literature” OWWA & Africana Colloquium on Black Women Writers & the Future, NY 10/17/97
NYU colloquium “Caribbean Crossroads.” NY, 5/3/97 (moderator)
“La mémoire africaine de Marie Ndiaye” MLA Washington, DC 12/29/96
“Notes and comments on the Griot character” NY African Film Festival, NYU 4/29/96
“Back to Africa: Dreams & Impediments” U. of Pennsylvania, African Studies Center 1/23/96
“Et si les chiens ne se taisaient plus… Identité et écriture métisses dans la France contemporaine” 20th century French Studies Colloquium, Stanford U., CA 4/1/95
“The African Presence in France” Stanford U. Program in Paris 2/14/95
“La conversation linguistique et ses hérétiques: les écrivains africains francophones” Lingovert Colloquium, NYU 11/18/94
“Enseigner conjointement littérature africaine et caribéenne francophone,” NYU 3/7/94
“War & Migration: the Senegalese Riflemen” ACLA annual convention. Claremont, CA 3/4/94
“L’aventure ambiguë de C.H. Kane, une relecture” Stanford U, CA 11/5/92
“Freetown in the 18-19th century” Canadian Association of African Studies. Toronto, Canada 5/16/91
“Contributions of Nova-Scotians in 18-19th century Sierra Leone” Black Business Consortium Society. Halifax, Nova Scotia 3/9/91
TRANSLATIONS ENGLISH/FRENCH & FRENCH/ENGLISH
“Resisting Visual Biopolitics” by Fatimah Tobing Rony. Jeu de Paume conference, Paris 2/23
“Worm Decomposition” by Karen Houle. PALM (Magazine du Jeu de Paume) (forthcoming)
Four poems by Mervyn Taylor Beltway Poetry Quarterly 23.3 (Dec. 22) https://www.beltwaypoetry.com
“Micromégas : L’école entomologique du cinéma” by James Leo Cahill. Jeu de Paume conference, Paris 9/7/22
“Recent Monk” by Amiri Baraka Franck Médioni, ed. Mystère Monk. Seghers (forthcoming)
“Monking”, poem by Malik Ameer, Franck Médioni, ed. Mystère Monk. Seghers (forthcoming)
“Liechtenstein,” poem by Ishion Hutchinson. Jeu de Paume staging, Paris 5/21/22
“Beneath the curtain, the small brown suitcase” by F. Thiry Consequence Magazine 13 (Fall 2021): 134-139
“Wounded Land,” poem by Kiné Kirima Fall Consequence Magazine (4/17/21) https://www.consequenceforum.org/translations/wounded-land
Essays & summaries for journal Clio, femmes, genre, histoire/Clio, Women, Gender & History (May 2014-présent)
Sub-titles for video on street dancers (True Warriors) by Martine Barrat (Winter 20)
Mxolisi Nyezwa’s “5 poèmes” Po&sie 165-166, 77-82
Co-translation of Nimrod. Selected Writings. Frieda Ekotto, ed. Ann Harbor: U. of Michigan, 2019
Subtitles to Martine Barrat’s documentary Getting Lite presented at La Place Centre Hiphop, Paris (October 2018)
Co-translation of “Poems” by Nimrod The Enchanting Verses Literary Review http://www.theenchantingverses.org/nimrod.html
Mxolisi Nyezwa’s poems. Collection “Le Manteau & la Lyre”, Obsidiane (submitted)
Mxolisi Nyezwa’s “Impossible…” B. Doucey, Nimrod & C. Poslaniec, eds. 120 nuances d’Afrique. Bruno Doucey, 2017, 186-187
Sub-titles for 3 videos on Harlem made by photographer Martine Barrat (Spring 2016)
Short-stories by Alexis Wright, an Australian Indigenous writer. Co-translated with Marc de Gouvenain and published as Le Pacte du serpent arc-en-ciel [The Covenant of the Rainbow Serpent] Actes Sud, 2002
Heart of Spain.Robert Capa’s Photographs of the Spanish Civil War. Aperture, 1999. Published as Coeur d’Espagne- Photos de la guerre civile espagnole par Robert Capa. Aperture, 2002
Proofreading of Nimrod’s translated collection L’Or des rivières. Tombeau de Senghor & La Nouvelle Chose française- For U. of Nebraska Press: English translation of Léonora Miano’s novel L’Intérieur de la nuit (Dark Heart of Night) & of Marie Ndiaye’s novel Rosie Carpe.
MEMBERSHIP-PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
PEN American Center (Translation Committee)-APELA-Association-des-anciens-élèves de Louis-le-Grand-Western Society for French History- Groupe de Recherches Internationales L.S. Senghor.