August 2021 - Present | Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, University of Louisville ‐ Undergraduate Education | |
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July 2017 - Present | Professor, University of Louisville ‐ Department of English | |
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June 2016 - Present | Director of Composition, University of Louisville ‐ Department of English | |
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July 2002 - July 2017 | Associate Professor, University of Louisville ‐ Department of English | |
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1996 - July 2002 | Assistant Professor, University of Louisville ‐ Department of English | |
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1998 - 1999 | Fulbright Visiting Professor, Universite de Ouagadougou | |
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1993 - 1996 | Assistant Professor of English, Southwest Missouri State University | |
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1992 - 1993 | Lecturer, Northwestern University ‐ Comparative Literature Program | |
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Disciplines
Professional Service and Affiliations
2015 - Present | Member, Executive Council, African Literature Association | 2015 - Present | Chair, Publicity Committee, African Literature Association | 2005 - Present | Reviewer, Mosaic | 2004 - Present | Reviewer, Research in African Literatures | 2003 | Advisor, Chadwyck-Healey Online Literature Project |
Honors and Awards
- 2016-2018 Faculty Fellow, Undergraduate Affairs, Office of the Provost, University of Louisville
- 2015 Nominated for Provost’s Award for Exemplary Advising, Faculty, University of Louisville
- 2008 Provost’s Award for Exemplary Advising, University of Louisville
- 2008 National Academic Advising Association Outstanding Faculty Academic Advising Award, University of Louisville
- 2005, 2010, 2013 Nominated, “Faculty Favorite”, University of Louisville
- 1998-99 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award for Lecturing/Research at the Université de Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- 1996 NEH Summer Institute Fellow, "Literature and the Modern Experience in Africa" July 6-August 16, Accra, Ghana. Sponsored by The Ohio State University and University of Ghana-Legon
- 1994 Summer Faculty Fellowship, Office of Graduate Studies, SMSU
- 1993 Faculty Development Grant, Dean of the College of Arts and Letters, SMSU
- 1991-92 Teaching Fellowship, Northwestern University
- 1990-1991 MacArthur Junior Scholar for field research in Dakar, Senegal awarded by the Program of African Studies, Northwestern University
- 1988-1990 Teaching Fellowship, Northwestern University
- 1987-1988 University Fellowship, Northwestern University
- 1987 A.B. received with highest honors in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan
1993 | PhD, Northwestern University ‐ Comparative Literature and Theory | |
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1987 | AB, With Highest Honors, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor ‐ Comparative Literature | |
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Contact Information
Department of English
University of Louisville
502-852-0510
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