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Professor Simon Gikandi FBA

The literatures and cultures of Africa and its Black Diasporas in the Americas and Europe; cultures, histories and institutions of slavery; literary history and comparative literature; global modernism
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2022
Sections
Modern Languages, Literatures and other Media from 1830
Website
https://english.princeton.edu/people/simon-gikandi

Current posts

Department of English, Princeton University Robert Schirmer Professor of English and Chair

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