Ms Njeri R Githire

612/625-1687

African American and African Studies 848 Social Sci Tower 267 - 19th Ave South

Department Affiliations

Ph.D.: Comparative Literature & Women's Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 2004.
Doctoral Studies: Francophone African Literatures, Centre International d’í‰tudes Francophones (CIEF)/Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, Paris, France, 1999-.
D.E.A (Diplí´me d’í‰tudes Approfondies): Francophone African Literatures, Université de Paris XII“”Val de Marne, Créteil, France, 1999.
Maí®trise í¨s lettres: Stylistics & Translation, Université de Paris III“”Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, 1997.
Licence í¨s lettres: Foreign Languages & Literatures (English, French, Portuguese), Université de Nantes, Nantes, France, 1993.

Githire, Njeri R. "The Female Pioneer in Monique Agénor’s L’Aí¯eule de l’isle Bourbon." The French Review 84.3 (2010): 36.48. Link
Githire, Njeri R. "The Empire Bites Back: Food Politics and the Making of a Nation in Andrea Levy’s Works." Callaloo 33.3 (2010): 857-873. Link
Githire, Njeri R. "New Visions, New Voices: Emerging Perspectives in East African Fiction." Transition 102 (2009): 182-8. Link
Githire, Njeri R. "The Semiotics of (Not)-Eating: Fasting, Anorexia, & Hunger Strike in Ananda Devi’s Le voile de Draupadi." Nottingham French Studies 48.1 (spring, 2009): 82-93. Link
Githire, Njeri R. "Horizons Adrift: Women in Exile, at Home and Abroad in Gisí¨le Pineau’s Works.." Research in African Literatures 36.1 (Spring, 2005): 74-90. Link
Githire, Njeri R, C. Makward. "Gisí¨le Pineau: Causerie á Penn State." Women in French Studies 9 (2001): 220-23.

The Island Writes Back: (Im)mobility, Visibility, and the Politics of Location in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Women's Writings: A book project which interrogates the desert-island as one of the most persistent allegories of imperial/colonial discovery and exploitation, 2004 - 2012
(In)edible Ideologies: The Politics of Food in African/African Diasporic Imaginary: A book project which explores food as a trope of narration in African and African Diasporic literatures, 2011 - 2015
Of Concrete Beaches and Vales of Pale Rubble: Self-Governance, Natural Resources, the Environment, & Gender Politics in the French Caribbean Imaginary: A project which examines the relationships of landscape, identity and culture in the French Caribbean Imaginary, 2011 - 2013

AFRO 5910: "Feast or Famine: The Politics of Food in Literary and Cultural Contexts"
AFRO 3625W/5625: "Black Women Writers in the Diaspora."
GLOS 5900 - “Immigrant Dreams & Contemporary African Diasporic Literatures“;
Afro 3601 - Introduction to African Literature
Afro 3592W - Introduction to Black Women Writers in the United States