Yvonne-Marie Mokam joined ±Ø²©ÓéÀÖ,±È²©ÓéÀÖÍøÖ· #########¡¯s Department of Modern Languages in 2013. Before coming to ±Ø²©ÓéÀÖ,±È²©ÓéÀÖÍøÖ· #########, she had several years of experience teaching at the Universit¨¦ de Douala in Cameroon, the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), and American University (Washington, DC). She earned her doctorate at the University of Arizona, and her Licence (bachelor¡¯s degree equivalent), Ma?trise (master¡¯s degree equivalent) and DEA (post-master¡¯s) at the Universit¨¦ de Yaound¨¦ in Cameroon. Her teaching at ±Ø²©ÓéÀÖ,±È²©ÓéÀÖÍøÖ· ######### expands the offerings of the French program to include courses in postcolonial francophone Sub-Saharan African. She has developed and taught new courses as well as existing ones. Her research focuses on contemporary male and female writers from francophone postcolonial Africa and the issues of history, memory, and identity in the current global era. Her recent scholarly work has appeared in journals such The French Review, Dalhousie French Studies, ?tudes Litt¨¦raires Africaines, Fixxion, Interculturel Francophonies, and in Mongo Beti: une conscience universelle. She received the Tibbie Leslie Travel Grant in 2017 for travel in Martinique and Guadeloupe
Learning & Teaching
Selected advance topic courses:
- FR 305: Introduction to Francophone Texts focusing on African folk tales
- FR 312: Survey of Literature from French Revolution to Present focusing on the representation of hospitality in 20e century French and francophone literature.
- FR 330: Francophone African Women Voices exploring the work of multigenerational contemporary African women writers, filmmakers, and critics, looking at their theoretical priorities and cultural positions.
- FR 418: Senior Seminar titled Global Africa that explores the place of Africa in globalization.
- FR 418: Senior Seminar titled Black France Matters that explores France¡¯s colorblind concept through a survey of the intense and complex yet overlooked multifaceted experiences and contributions of people of African descent to France¡¯s cultural, political, and economic history dating from the signing of the ¡°Code Noir¡± by Louis XIV in 1685 to current days.
Works
Selected peer reviewed publications:
Edited volume
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie and Phyllis Taoua. ?tudes Litt¨¦raires Africaines 42 : Mongo Beti : l¡¯exil¨¦ de retour et l¡¯¨¦preuve du r¨¦el. Universit¨¦ Lorraine, Metz, France, December 2016.
Articles in refereed journals
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie. ¡°Subversion of Humanitarian Narrative in Emmanuel Dongala¡¯s Johnny Chien M¨¦chant¡± The French Review Vol. 93, No. 3, March 2020: 116-128.
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie and Phyllis Taoua. ? Pr¨¦sentation ?. ?tudes Litt¨¦raires Africaines 42: Mongo Beti : l¡¯exil¨¦ de retour et l¡¯¨¦preuve du r¨¦el. Guest edited by Yvonne-Marie Mokam and Phyllis Taoua (December 2016): 7-12.
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie and Phyllis Taoua. ? Bibliographie ?. ?tudes Litt¨¦raires Africaines 42: Mongo Beti : l¡¯exil¨¦ de retour et l¡¯¨¦preuve du r¨¦el. Guest edited by Yvonne-Marie Mokam and Phyllis Taoua (December 2016): 73-88.
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie. ? Mongo Beti de retour d¡¯exil : du roman-feuilleton au roman ?. ?tudes Litt¨¦raires Africaines 42: Mongo Beti : l¡¯exil¨¦ de retour et l¡¯¨¦preuve du r¨¦el. Guest edited by Yvonne-Marie Mokam and Phyllis Taoua (December 2016): 37-54.
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie. ? Litt¨¦rature francophone d¡¯Afrique subsaharienne : l¡¯av¨¨nement du polar historique ?. Dalhousie French Studies 109: Fiction et histoire en litt¨¦ratures fran?aise et francophone. Guest edited by Driss A?ssaoui and Vincent Sim¨¦doh (Summer 2016): 77-86.
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie. ? Polar historique et m¨¦moire de la capture des esclaves ?. Revue Fixxion 10: Le Roman policier fran?ais contemporain. Guest edited by Jean Kaempfer and Andr¨¦ Vanoncini (June 2015): 64-72.
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie. ? M¨¦moire, histoire, subjectivit¨¦ dans L¡¯ex-p¨¨re de la nation ?. Revue Interculturel Francophonies 27: Regards crois¨¦s sur l¡¯?uvre d¡¯Aminata Sow Fall. Guest edited by Cheikh Diop and Alioune Diaw (June 2015): 131-148.
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie. ? L¡¯¨¦criture de la femme musulmane dans Loin de M¨¦dine d¡¯Assia Djebar ?. Pr¨¦sence Francophone 65 (2005) : 133-149.
Book chapter
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie. ? Mongo Beti l¡¯anticonformiste ?. In Adama Samake, Eds. Mongo Beti: une conscience universelle. De la r¨¦sistance ¨¤ la proph¨¦tie. Paris: Editions Publibook, 2015: 199-218.
Dictionary entry
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie. ¡°Mongo Beti¡±. In Dictionary of African Biography. Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Emmanuel Akyeampong. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, Vol. 4 (2011): 260-263.
Book reviews
- Mokam, Yvonne-Marie. Rev. of Mongo Beti le rebelle I. Textes r¨¦unis et pr¨¦sent¨¦s par Andr¨¦ Djiffack. Pr¨¦face de Boniface Mongo Mboussa, Paris, Gallimard, coll. Continents noirs, 2006, 400 p. In ?tudes Litt¨¦raires Africaines 23 (2007): 79-81.
