Fatoumata Seck

Assistant Professor of French and Italian and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature
Ph.D., Stanford University
M.A., University of Georgia
M.A., Jean Moulin Lyon III

Seck specializes in the literatures and cultures of Africa and the African diaspora. Her research and teaching span various disciplinary and linguistic traditions, with a particular focus on history, popular culture, and politics in the French-speaking world. She holds a Ph.D. in French, with a minor in anthropology and a certificate in African Studies from Stanford University, as well as an M.A. from the University of Georgia and Université Jean Moulin Lyon III. Before coming to Stanford, Seck was as an Assistant Professor at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island (CUNY/CSI).

Her book manuscript, Materializing Imaginaries in Postcolonial Senegal, offers a cultural history of the Senegalese left and examines its influence on African literature, cinema, and intellectual history. It investigates how these elements have shaped political, cultural, and urban imaginaries in Senegal and beyond. Her scholarship has appeared in the Journal of African Cultural Studies, the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, Small Axe a Caribbean Journal of Criticism, World Literature Today, Etudes Littéraires Africaines, and Le Monde Afrique, among others.

 

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Research Unit Groups

Research Interests

  • African Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

     

  • Literary Criticism (history of criticism, theory of literature)