Phyllis Taoua

Phyllis Taoua is associate professor of French and Francophone Studies; she is also an Honors College professor and affiliated with Africana Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She teaches courses on African literature and cinema, French Theory, Global Africa, Pan-African Protest Movements and Contemporary France. She has recently completed a book entitled African Freedom. Their Voices, Our World and the Difference it Makes. She is the author of Forms of Protest: Anti-Colonialism and Avant-Gardes in Africa, the Caribbean and France and the editor of Sembène Ousmane, a volume of essays published by Études littéraires africaines. Other recent publications have appeared in World Literature Today, The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel, Transition, SubStance, Research in African Literatures, Cahier d’Études Africaines, South Central Review and Journal of African Cultural Studies. She was the recipient of a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation award and Resident Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She was elected to the Executive Committee of the Division on African Literatures at the Modern Language Association and has presented her research in North America, Europe and Africa.