CRG African Literatures

The Collaborative Research Group (CRG) African Literatures is a forum for interdisciplinary exchange and for engaging and opening channels between African literary studies and African Studies, to promote African literature as a discipline within the larger spheres of the humanities and the social sciences.

About this CRG

The Collaborative Research Group (CRG) African Literatures is a forum for interdisciplinary exchange and for engaging and opening channels between African literary studies and African Studies, to promote African literature as a discipline within the larger spheres of the humanities and the social sciences. By creating a forum within the structures of AEGIS where scholars can come together and discuss research, ongoing projects and potential future collaborations, the CRG African Literatures aims to provide an infrastructure for sustaining conversation and collaboration between scholars in Europe and Africa working broadly on African literary culture/s. In order to achieve this aim, the CRG African Literatures is open to institutional participation and individual membership of African literary scholars working within or outside AEGIS member organisations.

We are a network of Europe-based Africanists and African scholars interested in African Literatures, in all forms. We believe that the study of African literatures contributes to the broader study of Africa and has the potential to challenge, complicate, and enrich our understanding of African Studies in unique ways, from unique historical, methodological and analytical perspectives.

The CRG African Literatures aims to:

  • Foster a community of (interdisciplinary) scholars focused on literary production in and from Africa, and to facilitate the sharing of information on African literary projects, events, and conversations within Europe and across Africa
  • Make visible the study of African literatures within the European African Studies sphere, and to fulfil an outreach capacity; to promote, share, and encourage engagement with works of African literature to a larger European public.

Contact

Email: africanlitcrg@gmail.com

CRG Coordinators: 

Elara Bertho 
CNRS, LAM, Bordeaux
elara.bertho@gmail.com

Joanna Woods 
Stockholm University
joanna.woods@english.su.se

Sreya Mallika Datta 
University of Leicester 
smd46@leicester.ac.uk

Megan Fourqurean 
University of Leeds
M.E.Fourqurean@leeds.ac.uk

Dorothée Boulanger 
University of Oxford
dorothee.boulanger@humanities.ox.ac.uk

How to join 

The CRG is aimed at researchers working in African literatures broadly. We invite all career level scholars to apply for membership, but we are particularly interested in engaging postgraduate students, PhDs, and early career scholars. 

To become a member and join the African Literatures CRG, please send an email to: africanlitcrg@gmail.com. In your email, please state your name, title, institutional affiliation, and area/s of expertise.

Once you have emailed us, we will add you to the mailing list, and we’ll be in touch.

Members

Shola Adenekan
Nikitta Dede Adjirakor
Mukhtar Alabi
Dawit Dibekulu Alem
Florian Alix
Anenechukwu Kevin Amoke
Edith Anyim
Markus Arnold
Tesfaye Woubshet Ayele
Amber Bal
Maria Benedita Basto
Sandra Bornand
Dorothée Boulanger
Melissa Buecher-Welson
Sara Buekens
Alice Chaudemanche
Ninon Chavoz
Claire de Bertrand de Beuvron
Aurores Desgranges
Amadou Oury Diallo
Dawit Dibekulu
Cecile Dolisane-Ebosse
Sam Durrant
Sule Emmanuel Egya
Patricia Essomba
Sandra Folie
Romuald Fonkoua
Elsje Fourie
Megan Fourqurean
Bodil Folke Frederiksen
Xavier Garnier
Kata Gyuris
Mohammed Seghir Halimi
Nicklas Hållén
Tina Harpin
Ashleigh Harris
Stefan Helgesson
Ibifaka Iyo
Amal Jlel
Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
Kiranpreet Kaur
Abdoulaye Keita
Madhu Krishnan
Mengni Kuang
Karen Lauterbach
Camille Lavoix
Maëline Le Lay
Pierre Leroux
Céline Lesourd
Fang Liu 
Ken Lipenga
Florence Lhote
Indiana Lods
Patrick Lumasia
James Mackay
Jasmine Mattey
Peter Maurits
Catherine Mazauric
Sylvère Mbondobari
Emily McGiffin
Kay Miller
Nelson Mlambo
Aurore Montebran
Anouchka Stevellia Moussavou Nyama
Asante Mtenje
Alan Muller
Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Grace Musila
Athanas Mutisya
Djibril Tamsir Niane
Brendon Nicholls
Sanja Nivesjö
Alfieri Noemi
Anne Obono Essomba
Joseph Oduro-Frimpong
Kole Odutola
Ayokunmi Ojebode
Jade Munslow Ong
Hellen Akeyo Owuor
Lotte Pelckmans
Marie Pernice
Ranka Primorac
Bafana Radebe
Annachiara Raia
Clara Randimbiarimanana
Astrid Rasch
María Recuenco Peñalver
Alena Rettova
Uta Reuster-Jahn
Mathilde Rogez
Moussa Sagha
Neha Saini
Lily Saint
Talktome Sandile
Roberta Ylenia Tartaglia
Nick Tembo
Dania Tunca
Lieselot Tuytens
Marta Tveit
Ogochukwu Ukwueze
Marjolaine Unter Ecker
Cécile van den Avenne
Margaux Vidotto
Clarissa Vierke
Isabella Villanova
Martina Vitackova
Pius Vögele
Kate Wallis
Kyle Wanberg
Ruthie Wenske Stern
Russell West-Pavlov
Hassan Mbiydzenyuy Yosimbom
Mingqing Yuan
Maria Zirra