Prof. Dr. Papa Samba Diop

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies
KeywordsWolof-Literatur, Frankophone Literaturen Afrikas und der Karibik, Übersetzung, Interkulturalität, Intertextualität

Current contact address

CountryFrance
CityCréteil
InstitutionUniversite de Paris XII (Paris-Val-de-Marne)
InstituteFaculte des lettres, langues et sciences humaines

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans-Jürgen LüsebrinkFachrichtung Romanistik, Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2016

Programme(s)

2015Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Diop is an internationally renowned expert of the Francophone Literatures of Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Born in Saint-Louis in Senegal, and teaching in Paris since 1996, Professor Diop is specialized in the analysis of the relations between oral and written literatures and cultures in Africa and the Caribbean. His books on the 'Cultural Archeology’ of Senegalese literature and on the works of the Senegalese writer and politician Léopold Sedar Senghor and on Aimé Césaire represent outstanding landmarks in the field of colonial and postcolonial literatures studies.