Mouhamedoul Niang

Mouhamedoul Niang is an Associate Professor of French and Italian at Colby College, specializing in Francophone African literature and cinema. His research explores innovative literary aesthetics, narratives of identity, and the intersections of gender, body, and space in postcolonial contexts.

His work engages with African Studies, postcolonial theory, and decolonial frameworks to analyze how cultural and historical ideologies shape literary representation. He has published extensively on topics including nationalism, totemism, occultism, and transcultural dynamics in African and Creolist literatures.

Key publication trends include: (1) African and Creolist spatial representation; (2) Postcolonial body politics; (3) Hybrid transculturation in genre fiction; (4) Narrative structures in liberation discourses; (5) Intersections of secular modernity and tradition; (6) Transnational testimonials in contemporary African literature.

He teaches courses on French language and Francophone African literature, with a focus on gender and space. His contact details include email mouhamedoul.niang@colby.edu and office in Lovejoy 309, Colby College.