Medoune Gueye
Medoune Gueye, Associate Professor of French
Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
321 Major Williams Hall
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
540-231-5361 | mgueye@vt.edu
Medoune Gueye is an associate professor of French in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. He is currently working on a study of the emergence of the first generation of women writers and the literary field in Senegal.
- French and Francophone Studies
- Senegalese Women Writers
- Francophone African Cinema
- PhD, University of Cincinnati
- BA, University of Dakar (UCAD), Senegal
- Assistant editor, The French Review
- American Association of Teachers of French
- Director Virginia Tech Senegal Summer Program
Books
Aminata Sow Fall: oralité et société dans l’œuvre romanesque. Paris: L’Harmattan 2005.
Journal Articles
“Critique et écriture de l'oralité dans le roman africain : discursivité orale chez Aminata Sow Fall. ” Traditions orales postcoloniales. Eds. Luc Fotsing Fondjo and Moustapha Fall. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2014. 51-60.
“Criticism, écriture, and Orality in the African Novel: Oral Discourse in Aminata Sow Fall’s Work. ” Research in African Literatures 45.2 (Summer 2014): 86-120.
“African Mythic Context and Postcolonial Philosophy in Aminata Sow Fall's Le Jujubier du patriarche. ”Journal of African Literature and Culture 6 (2009): 105-120.
“L’Appel des arènes: A Postcolonial Development of the Buildungsroman.” The Coastal Review 1 (2007). 28 March 2007.
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