Expertise

Black women writers, feminist theory, transnational feminisms, French/Francophone literatures, oral and written literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora, gender and development, human rights.

Past Affiliations

Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Chancellor's Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Affiliate Faculty, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Associate Professor, French, Africana Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Professor, Women's Studies Program, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Chancellor's Professor, Africana Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Professor, Africana Studies, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Professor, Department of World Languages and Cultures, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Director, Department of World Languages and Cultures, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Director, Women's Studies Program, School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Professor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
Language Studies
Degrees
PhD, University of Minnesota, 1989
MA, University of Minnesota, 1977
BA, University of Nigeria, 1972
Keywords
africa non-western art oral history non-western history oral literature women's studies diaspora sociology of sex and gender law and social change