Mohamed Kamara

Mohamed Kamara is Professor of French at Washington and Lee University and holder of the H. Laurent Boetsch Jr. Term Professorship in International Education. He chairs the Romance Languages Department and is a core faculty member of Africana Studies. His research examines humanitarianism through frameworks of liminality, Sylvia Wynter's reconceptualization of humanity, and theories of love advanced by Martin Luther King Jr. and Léopold Sédar Senghor.

His scholarly work includes analyzing colonial legacies in Francophone African literature and the representation of historical trauma. He authored 'Colonial Legacies in Francophone African Literature' and the play 'When Mosquitoes Come Marching In' about Sierra Leone's civil war.