DEGREES: Ph.D., M.A., B.A., University of Paris (France)

CURRENT POSITION: Graduate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS
Focus on African Films. Ed. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004. 
Conversations with Maryse Condé. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Expanded edition and translation of Entretiens avec Maryse Condé. Recipient of a 1995 Eugene M. Kayden National Translation Award.
Entretiens avec Maryse Condé. Postscript by Régis Antoine. Paris: Karthala, 1993.
Twenty-five Black African Filmmakers: A Critical Study, with Filmography and Bio-bibliography. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1988.
The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene, A Pioneer of African Film. Foreword by Thomas Cripps. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1984. Received Outstanding Academic Book Award (1985-1986), Choice, a national publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. 

PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Introduction to book Focus on African Films. Ed. Françoise Pfaff. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. 1-11. 
“African Cities as Cinematic Texts.” Focus on African Films. Ed. Françoise Pfaff. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. 89-106.
“From Africa to the Americas: Interviews with Haile Gerima (1976-2001).” Focus on African Films. Ed. Françoise Pfaff. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2004. Pp. 203-220.
Essay on African cinema “The Early Years, 1960-1985” in book Reality & Beyond: African Film & Video at the Turn of the Millenium, forthcoming.
“Entretien avec Jean-Marie Teno.” Cinémaction, Special Issue on African Cinema “Cinémas africains: une oasis dans le désert.” 106 (2003): 202-208.  
Entry on the Senegalese woman filmmaker Safi Faye. International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Eds. Tom Pendergast and Sara Pendergast. 4th ed. Vol. 2, Directors.Detroit: St. James Press, 2000. Pp. 310-312.
“Françoise Pfaff, Guadeloupe/France, Interview.” Beti Ellerson. Sisters of the Screen: Women on Film, Video and Television. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2000. 251-266.
“Ousmane Sembène, el clásico de los clásicos.” Nosferatu, Revista de Cine (San Sebastián, Spain) 30 (April 1999): 58-68.
“New African Cinema.” Cinéaste 22.4 (1997): 58-59.
“Sarraounia: An Epic of Resistance—Interview with Med Hondo.” With Open Eyes: Women and African Cinema. Ed. Kenneth W. Harrow. Amsterdam/Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1997. Pp. 151-158.
“Entretiens avec Maryse Condé: De la parole au texte écrit.” L’Oeuvre de Maryse Condé. Paris: L’Harmattan, 1996. Pp. 145-155.
“Africa from Within: The Films of Gaston Kaboré and Idrissa Ouedraogo as Anthropological Sources.” African Experiences of Cinema. Eds. Imruh Bakari and Mbye Cham. London: British Film Institute, 1996. Pp. 223-238. Rpt. from: The Society for Visual Anthropology Review 6.1 (Spring 1990): 50-59.
“Eroticism and Sub-Saharan African Films.” African Experiences of Cinema. Eds. Imruh Bakari and Mbye Cham. London: British Film Institute, 1996. Pp. 256-261. Rpt. from: Zast (Zeitschrift für Afrikastudien) no. 9-10 (Fall 1991): 5-16.
“Conversations with Myriam Warner-Vieyra.” College Language Association Journal 39.1 (September 1995): 26-48.
“Conversation with Ghanaian Filmmaker Kwaw Ansah.” Research in African Literatures 26.3 (Fall 1995): 186-193.
“Sembene, A Griot of Modern Times.” Cinemas of the Black Diaspora.  Ed. Michael T. Martin. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995. Pp. 118-128.
Hollywood’s Die-Hard Jungle Melodramas.” L’Afrique et le Centenaire du Cinéma. Ed. Gaston Kaboré. Paris: Présence Africaine, 1995. Pp. 194-200.
“Guelwaar.” Cinéaste 20.2 (Spring 1994): 48-49.
“The Uniqueness of Ousmane Sembene’s Cinema.” Ousmane Sembène–Dialogue with Critics and Writers.  Eds. Samba Gadjigo, Ralph H. Faulkingham, Thomas Cassirer, and Reinhard Sander. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. Pp. 14-21.
“Impact de la co-production sur les composantes socioculturelles de cinéma d’Afrique francophone.” Présence Africaine, Cahier Spécial Cinéma et Liberté. Contribution au thème du FESPACO 1993 (1st Quarter 1993): 43-48.
“Eroticism and Sub-Saharan African Films.” Erotique Noire–Black Erotica. Eds. Miriam DeCosta-Willis, Reginald Martin and Roseann Bell. New York: Doubleday, 1992. Pp. 433-437. 
“Five West African Filmmakers on their Films.” Issue: A Journal of Opinion 20.2 (Summer 1992): 31-37.
“Eroticism and Sub-Saharan African Films.” Zast (Zeitschrift für Afrikastudien) no. 9-10 (Fall 1991): 5-16.
“What’s New in the Cinema of Senegal.” Black Film Review 6.2 (1990): 16-29.
“Africa from Within: The Films of Gaston Kaboré and Idrissa Ouedraogo as Anthropological Sources.” The Society for Visual Anthropology Review 6.1 (Spring 1990): 50-59.
“Burkina Faso (update). International Film Guide (1990): 100-102.
“Le Griot comme concept et comme personnage dans les films africains subsahariens.”  Tradition Orale et Nouveaux Media. Ed. Victor Bachy. Brussels/Paris: Editions OCIC, 1989.
“Cultural and Political Power of Cinematic Language.” Visions 13.3 (Fall 1989): 14-17.
“Burkina Faso.” International Film Guide (1989): 102-104.
“Enchantment and Magic in Two Novels by Aminata Sow Fall.” College Language Association Journal  31.3 (1988): 339-359.
“Entretien avec Haile Gerima.” Cinémaction 46 (1988): 172-177.
“Entretien avec Charles Burnett.” Cinémaction 46 (1988): 178-181.
“Africa through African Eyes–An Interview with Idrissa Ouedraogo.” Black Film Review 4.1 (Winter 1987-88): 11-12, 15.
“Cinema in Francophone Africa.” Africa Quarterly 22.3-4 (1986): 41-48.
“Films of Med Hondo–An African Filmmaker in Paris.” Jump Cut 31 (1986): 44-46.
“Researching Africa on Film.” Jump Cut 31 (1986): 50, 57.
“Aminata Sow Fall: l’écriture au féminin.” Notre Librairie (Oct.-Dec. 1985): 135-138.
“Ceddo.” Magill’s Survey of Cinema: Foreign Film. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1985. Pp. 492-496.
“Maya Angelou: L’oiseau en cage qui chante.” Notre Librairie 77 (Nov.-Dec. 1984): 70-73.
“Sarah Maldoror.” Black Art 5.2 (1982): 25-32.
“Three Faces of Africa: Women in Xala.” Jump Cut 27 (1982): 27-31.
“Hollywood’s Image of Africa.” Commonwealth no. 5 (1981-1982): 97-116.
“Myths, Traditions and Colonialism in Emitaï.” College Language Association Journal 35.3 (1981): 336-346.
“Negro Images in American Films.” Negro History Bulletin 43.4 (Oct.-Dec. 1980): 92-94.
“A Propos de Ceddo.” Positif no. 235 (1980): 54-58
“Ousmane Sembene: His Films, His Art.” Black Art 3.3 (1979): 26-36.
“Notes on Cinema.” New Directions 29.3 (1979): 26-30.
“Films and the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Cultures.” College Language Association Journal 22 (1978): 24-30.
“De quelle moisson s’agit-il? Dialogue avec Haile Gerima, auteur du film La Récolte de 3.000 ans.” Positif 198 (1977): 53-56.
“Toward a New Era in Cinema: Harvest: 3,000 Years.” New Directions 4.3 (1977): 28-30.

HONORS, AWARDS, CITATIONS AND OTHER DISTINCTIONS (selected)
Faculty Author Certificate in Recognition of Work Published during 2003-04 from President H. Patrick Swygert and Provost Richard A. English, Howard University, April 20, 2004. 
Named “Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques” by the French Minister of Education for Commendable Service to French Education and the Dissemination of French Culture in the United States. The Academic Palms were created by Napoleon in 1808 as an award for accomplishment in the realm of education. July 27, 1995.
Eugene M. Kayden Translation Award, 1995, for the translation into English of Entretiens avec Maryse Condé.
Elected Vice-President of the Executive Bureau of the Colloquium “Tradition orale et les nouveaux média” (Oral Tradition and the New Media), held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. February 21-28, 1987.
Outstanding Academic Book Award (1985-1986), Choice, a national publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Award for the book, The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene, A Pioneer of African Film (1984). 

FUNDED GRANTS
Faculty Research Grant, Fund for Academic Excellence, Howard University, for research on Francophone African cinema, 1950s to present. (1998-1999).
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship to undertake a research project on the Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé (1992-1993).
Faculty Research Grant, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Howard University, for a study of the Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé (1992-1993).
DC Community Humanities Council grant to fund “Evolving African Cinema Series,” a component of Filmfest DC (1987-1988).
Incentive Grant for Curriculum Development, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, College of Liberal Arts, Howard University (1986-1987).
Incentive Grant for Curriculum Development for purchase of films for the Department of Romance Languages, Andrew W. Mellon Fund, College of Liberal Arts, Howard University (1978-1979).
Faculty Research Grant to study Ousmane Sembene’s cinematographic works, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Howard University (1978-1979).