Ginette Curry

 


BACKGROUND AND RESEARCH INTERSTS

 

Ginette Curry holds a Ph.D. in African American/Post-Colonial Literatures in English and a M.A in International Relations from the

Sorbonne University, Paris III. She teaches in the English Department at Florida International University and is an Affiliate Faculty of FIU African and African Diaspora Studies Program, the FIU Women Studies Program. She is also an Affiliate faculty of the Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization (IRGG) at Yale University.

 

She is the author of Awakening African Women: The Dynamics of Change published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2004. The book is a comparative analysis between recent films by African male/female filmmakers and literary works by female African authors. Her second book entitled “Toubab La!” Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora was published in 2007. It is an examination of mixed-race characters from writers in the United States , the French and British Caribbean islands (Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia and Jamaica ), Europe (France and England ) and Africa ( Burkina Faso , South Africa , Botswana and Senegal ).

 

Dr. Curry also wrote recent book reviews in African Studies Review (ASR), JENDA (A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies), Affilia (A Journal of Women and Social Work) and West Africa Review (WAR).

 

In 2007, her book chapter entitled “African Literature” has been published in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures: Sub-Saharan Africa. Also, in July 2008, Dr. Curry’s article “African Women, Tradition and Change in Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure (1962) and Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter (1982) appeared in The Journal of Pan African Studies, a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal. Her comparative study of Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s and Mariama Ba’s female characters reveals how the role of  women has evolved and changed over time from pre-colonial to colonial and post-colonial Senegal.

 

Finally, Dr. Curry is in the process of finalizing two upcoming book publications on pre-colonial Africa and multiracial themes in African-European literature. 

 

Link to NBC6 Interview: http://www.fiu.edu/~curryg/Interviewed_256k.wmv

 

COURSES

 

In the past years and in the FIU African and African Diaspora Program, she has designed and taught several literature courses at the graduate and undergraduate level such as “Themes in Literature: Mulatto, Mestizos,” “Millennium Mulatto Literature,” African Fiction and Films: Women Voices,” “Major African Writers,” “The Harlem Renaissance Female Writers,” “African American Female Writers in Paris,” “The Literature of the African Diaspora,” and “Caribbean Women Writers.”

 

SELECT RECENT PUBLIATIONS

Curry, G. “Toubab La!”Literary Representations of Mixed-Race Characters in the African Diaspora. London:

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 

Curry, G. In Search of Maba. (forthcoming, 2009).

Curry, G. “African Literature.” Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures: Sub-Saharan Africa. Westport CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, (2007): 151-173. 

Curry, G. “African Women, Tradition and Change in Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure (1962) and Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter (1982).” The Journal of Pan African Studies 2.5 (July 2008): 111-129.

Link: http://www.jpanafrican.com/docs/vol2no5/2.5_African_Women.pdf

Curry, G. Rev. of Maryse Condé et Ahmadou Kourouma: Griots de l’indicible. African Studies Review 49.3: 124-125 (December 2006).

Curry, G. “Barbara Chase Riboud (1939- ).” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2007.

Curry, G. “Danzy Senna (1970- ).” The African American National Biography.

New York, New York: Oxford

University Press (2007).

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: curryg@fiu.edu

Website: www.fiu.edu/~curryg