Emmanuel Yewah

Emmanuel Yewah holds a Licencié –es- Lettres and a Maîtrise from the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon, as well as a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He came to Albion College in 1986 where he currently serves as Professor of French and Comparative Cultural Studies. His teaching covers the French and Francophone worlds as well as Honors and a First Year seminar on Africa: Myth and Reality. As a Comparatist, his wide-ranging interests in research include, African Literature and politics, detective fiction, filmic adaptations of literary texts, postcolonial theories, visual cultures (Photography), migration, and Human Rights discourses. He has published extensively in these areas and in a variety of avenues. His recent co-authored book is Across the Atlantic: African Immigrants in the United States Diaspora (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Press). His current research deals with the cross-examination of literature and law, literature and medicine, political cartoons, Colonial Court Interpreters, and World Fairs. Since 2000, he has traveled with over one hundred students to Cameroon and France.