DIRECTORY INFORMATION
321 MAJOR WILLIAMS HALL
(540) 231-8317
mgueye@vt.edu

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Associate Professor of Francophone Studies
At VPI&SU since 2000

EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1994.
M.A., University of Cincinnati, 1988.
Licence ès lettres, University of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
French Language, Francophone Studies, Female Writers, and African Francophone Cinema

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

• Aminata Sow Fall, oralité et société dans l’œuvre romanesque. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005.

Articles :

• "African Mythic Context and Postcolonial Philosophy in Aminata Sow Fall's Le Jujubier du patriarche." Journal of African Literature and Culture 6 (2009): 105-120.
• "L'appel des arènes: A Postcolonial Development of the Buildungsroman." The Coastal Review 1 (2007) 28 March 2007 <http://class.georgiasouthern.edu/fl/thecoastalreview/gueye1.html>
• "Reading the Postcolonial Paradigm in Mariama Bâ and Simone Schwarz-Bart: Resistance and Negotiation." Bridges 9 (2003): 105-126.
• "Tradition orale et philosophie wolof chez Aminata Sow Fall : une esthétique transgénérique et transculturelle." Langues et Littératures 6 (January 2002): 59-78.
• "Écriture, développement et féminisme : Entretien avec Aminata Sow Fall." The Literary Griot.12.2 (Fall 2000): 44-58.
• "Person, Place or Thing: The Function of Naming in Nafissatou Diallo's Le Fort maudit." The Literary Griot 11.1 (Spring 1999): 33-47.
• "La question du féminisme chez Mariama Bâ et Aminata Sow Fall." The French Review 72.2 (December 1998): 308-319.
• "Review of African Francophone Writing: A Critical Introduction." Ibnlfassi, Laïla, and Hitchcott, eds. African Studies Review 41.1 (April 1998): 198-200.
• "Stylistics Annotated Bibliography for 1987-1988." Style 23.4 (1989): 618-656.

PAPERS PRESENTED

- “African Mythic Context and Postmodern Philosophy in Aminata Sow Fall’s Le Jujubier du patriarche.” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference 2008. Lexington, April 17-19, 2008.
- “Allegorical Representation of Political Power in Aminata Sow Fall’s Fiction.” The 27th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. University of Cincinnati, May 10-12 2007.
-“Aminata Sow Fall's Buildungsroman: L'Appel des arènes.” SouthEast Costal Conference on Languages and Literatures. Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA. March 30 - April 1, 2006.
- “Conditions et conditionnements pour une écriture de l’oralité chez Aminata Sow Fall- ” 47th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, in New Orleans, November 11-14, 2004.
- “Symbolisme initiatique dans L’Appel des arènes d’Aminata Sow.” Joint 77th Conference of the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) and 11th Conference of the Fédération Internationale des Professeurs de Français (FIPF), Atlanta, July 19-23, 2004.
- “Interaction du mythe et du romanesque dans Le Jujubier du patriarche d’Aminata Sow Fall : Intertextualité et polyphonie sociale.” African Literature Association 30th Anniversary Conference, Madison-Wisconsin, April 15-18, 2004.
- “Réactualisation du modèle actantiel mythique dans la structure narrative de L’Appel des arènes d’Aminata Sow Fall.” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, May 15, 2003.
- “Tradition orale et philosophie wolof chez Aminata Sow Fall: une esthétique transgénérique et transculturelle dans Le Revenant.” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, May 9, 2002.
- “Ramatoulaye, Mariama Bâ’s Postidentitarian Heroine.” First Annual World Conference of the Black Expressive Cultures Association, University of Maryland, Eastern Shore, November 9-11, 2000.
- “Féminisme existentiel chez Mariama Bâ, Simone Schwarz-Bart et Anne Hébert.” International Conference on Femme et Créativité, organized by Centre International d’Études, de Recherches et de Réactivation sur la Littérature, les Arts et la Culture (CIRLAC), Saint-Louis, Senegal, December 2-7, 1996.
- “Une autre problématique de l'identité chez Mariama Bâ, Aminata Sow Fall et Nafissatou Niang Diallo.” Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, May 13, 1995.
- "Le féminisme de Mariama Bâ et 'l'antiféminisme' d'Aminata Sow Fall." Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA), Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 4, 1993.
- "La cantatrice chauve, une anti-pièce, un faux débat." Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures, Cincinnati, May 1990.

CONFERENCE SESSIONS CHAIRED
- African Literature and Linguistic Issues.
Inaugural World Conference of the Black Expressive Culture Studies Association
Kent States University, November 19, 1998.

Chaired in the framework of the Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Cincinnati:
- La problématique de l’identité dans l’espace colonial, May 7, 1999.
- Corps, écriture et identité dans la littérature francophone, May 9, 1998.
- Otherness, identity and History in Francophone Literature, May 10, 1997.
- Littérature franco-africaine et de la Guadeloupe, May 13, 1994.
- Récits et romans haïtiens, May 1993.
- Études francophones : la femme et la littérature, May 1992.
- Littérature francophone : conflits de la modernité, May 1991.
- Facettes de Marguerite Duras et de Nathalie Sarraute, May 1991.
- Belgian Literature, May 1990.
- Death and Sexuality, May 1990.
- Francophone Literature, May 1989.
- Seventeenth Century Studies, May 1988.
- Littérature d'expression française : Camara Laye et Ferdinand Oyono, May 1987.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

- Program Director of Virginia Tech Summer Program in Paris 2010.

French and Francophone Studies