Emilie Ndione Diouf

Assistant Professor of English

Departments/Programs

African and African American Studies
English
Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Degrees

Michigan State University, Ph.D.
Michigan State University, M.A.

Expertise

Anglophone and Francophone postcolonial African literatures and Cinema with an emphasis on gender, feminist theory, and trauma theory. Francophone Caribbean literature; African Cultural Productions and Human Rights.

Profile

Emilie's research and teaching reflect her interdisciplinary background in African Literature, African American and African Studies, as well as Women’s and Gender Studies. She is interested in the relationship between narrative, migration, trauma, and human rights, expanding the field of trauma studies to include more substantially the voices of African women refugees. Since African women refugees trauma narratives represent subjectivities shattered by violence, they are imbricated into the socio-economic and political transits of cultural production, circulation, and reception. She uses trauma theory to explore the ways in which African women survivors of civil war and genocide narrate the large-scale violence inflicted upon them. Her research in African women’s literature forms a bridge to Francophone Caribbean Women's literature, and to black feminist theory. Comparisons of various women’s cultural productions across the African Diaspora enhance critical inquiry into systemic violence and the promotion of gender justice. Emilie is interested in diversifying the field of feminist studies through cross
cultural analysis that allows us to rethink new feminist paradigms that could take into consideration Black women’s unique conditions.

Courses Taught

ENG	52a	Refugee Stories, Refugee Lives
ENG	62a	Documentary: Techniques and Controversies
ENG	62b	Contemporary African Literature, Global Perspectives
ENG	137b	Women and War
ENG	171b	African Feminism(s)
ENG	172b	African Literature and Human Rights
ENG	221a	Text, Translation, Ethics

Awards and Honors

Mandel Faculty Grants in the Humanities (2020)

Provost Teaching Innovation Grant (2019 - 2020)

Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Fellowship. Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (2016 - 2017)

Royal Air Maroc-African Studies Association Student Travel Award (2016 - 2017)

DFG, German Research Foundation Priority Programme (2014)

Myriam J. Kelly Fellowship for African WomeN (2013)

Fulbright, Institute of International Education (2008 - 2010)

Scholarship

Diouf, Emilie. "Movement of the Female Body: Re-imagining Black Diasporic Women’s Writings." New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora: Between Unchartered Themes and Alternative Representations. Ed. Glenn Chambers, R. Kiki Edozie, and Tama Hamilton-Wray. East Lansing: MSU Press, 2018

Diouf, Emilie. "I Just Wanted To Forget It All. But It Was Impossible:” Umutesi and the Politics of Testimony in Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire.." Under Fire: Critical Discourses on African Women in War and Conflict. Ed. Pauline Ada Uwakweh. Lexington Books, 2017. 131-150.