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Njeri Githire
Njeri Githire is associate professor of African American and African studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, where she teaches courses in African, Caribbean and Indian Ocean cinemas, literatures and related cultural forms. Professor Githire holds a Licence in foreign languages and literatures (English, French and Portuguese) from l’Université de Nantes (France), a Maîtrise in stylistics and translation from l’Université de Paris III (Sorbonne-Nouvelle), a DEA in Francophone literatures and philology from l’Université de Paris-Est Créteil, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Pennsylvania State University. Her monograph Cannibal Writes: Eating Others in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women’s Writings (University of Illinois Press, 2014) explores the prominence of alimentary-related tropes and their relationship to sexual consumption, writing, global geopolitics, economic dynamics and migration in select texts by Caribbean and Indian Ocean women writers. She has published articles in Women in French Studies; Research in African Literatures; Callaloo and The French Review, among other scholarly publications.
Contact: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 810, Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.