AAADS - Faculty

Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of French and Italian; Director, Project on African Expressive Traditions
Alma Mater: PhD, University of Wisconsin

Email: ejulien@indiana.edu
Phone: (812) 855-7537
Office:Ballantine 903

Courses:

African American Artists in Paris; The Twentieth Century; African Fictions and Feminisms;
Prison or Exile? Writing under Repression in Eastern Europe and Africa (team taught); French Language Literatures of Africa and the Americas

Research:

20th-century literature and culture; the novel; postcoloniality, especially the literatures of Africa; the African diaspora and Europe in relation to one another.

Recent Publications:

  1. “The Extroverted African Novel,” “When a Man Loves a Woman: Gender and National Identity in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Mariama Ba’s Scarlet Song,” and “The Locations of African Literature: A Dialogue Between Humanists and Social Scientists”: all forthcoming
  2. “Reading ‘Orality’ in French Language Novels from Sub-Saharan Africa” (Francophone Postcolonial Studies: A Critical Introduction, Arnold, 2003)

An interview in French with Professor Julien is available at http://www.indiana.edu/~complit/faculty/julien.html