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Suzanne Crosta

Suzanne Crosta ([email protected]) is professor of Francophone literatures and cinemas at McMaster University. She has written extensively on issues of representation, mobility, identity, narration, and nation in African and Caribbean diasporic literatures and screen media. Author of several monographs, she has contributed chapters to more than 20 collections of essays and books and the same number of peer reviewed articles in her these fields. Her current research focuses on African documentaries, Sino-African documentaries and films, as well as rhetorical strategies for analyzing aesthetic cultural practices in word literatures written in French.

Sada Niang

Sada Niang ([email protected]) graduated from the Universities of Paris X-Nanterre (France), York University (Canada), and the University of Toronto (Canada). He is the co-author of a three-volume textbook introducing African literature in English to African ESL students (Elsewhere in Africa, 1978), coeditor of African Continuities (1990), editor of Litterature et cinema en Afrique francophone (1996), author of Djibril Diop Mambety: un cineaste a contrecourant (2002), and author of Nationalist African Cinema: Legacy and Transformations (2014). With Alexie Tcheuyap (2001) and Samba Gadjigo (2009), he edited two issues of Presence Francophone. His other publications have appeared in numerous collections of essays, in Research in African Literatures, The Dalhousie Review, Notre Libraire, and Etudes Francophones. Sada Niang teaches and researches on African/Caribbean literatures and cinemas. Niang is Professor of French at the University of Victoria in Canada.

Alexie Tcheuyap

Alexie Tcheuyap ([email protected]) is Professor and Chair of the Department of French, University of Toronto. He is a leading scholar of African literature, media and cinema. Among his major publications are De l'écrit à l'écran (University of Ottawa P, 2005), Postnationalist African Cinemas (Manchester University P, 2011) and Autoritarisme, presse et violence au Cameroun, 2014).