Dr. Khadidiatou Diallo

Khadidiatou Diallo is a professor of African literature, African oral literature, and literary theory at Gaston Berger University. She received her Ph.D. from the same university. Her research spans African cultural studies, gender, women, and sexuality studies, women’s verbal arts in West Africa, and female genital mutilation in African and African American literature. She is the author of numerous articles in high-ranking journals on the representation of sexual violence in post-apartheid novels and on gender and sexuality in African feminist literature, including Canadian Journal of African Studies/Revue Canadienne des Etudes Africaines, Contemporanea Storia, IAFOR Journal of Literature & Librarianship, Reappraisals, Commonwealth Studies and Essays.