Thanks for sharing this! Sad I missed the earlier talks but the ones coming up look great.

NeMLA 2021: 11-14 March 2021
Francophone African Literatures Outside the Book
This panel invites explorations of literary activity by/about francophone African authors outside the bindings of the printed page. As Rosenthal and Ruffel have observed (2010) with regard to contemporary literature in French broadly considered, literary activity in the…[Read more]

NeMLA 2021: 11-14 March 2021
Réseaux: Strengthening Connections in French and Francophone Studies in Times of Crisis
This roundtable builds on themes and discussion begun at the 2020 convention among early career scholars in French and Francophone Studies, taking into account the acute crisis brought about by the pandemic and its fallout. The…[Read more]

I want to share abstracts of two recent publications that came out late last year:

“Disidentifying African Authors at a French Writers’ Festival: Mabanckou and Miano at Étonnants Voyageurs.” Research in African Literatures. Volume 50 Number 2 (2019). 49-67. 

“Between France and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alain Mabanckou, and Transatlantic Mis-Readi…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing this, Addie, and congrats on the article in French Review!