Arlene A. Elder (University of Cincinnati)

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Arlene A. Elder
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Department of English and Comparative Literature
University of Cincinnati
Mail Location 69
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221  USA

phone:  (513) 556-3917
fax:    (513) 556-5960
e-mail: elder2@fuse.net



Activities:

Senior Fulbright Lecturer to the University of Nairobi, Kenya, 1976-7;
member of the Executive Board of the African Literature Association,
1995-1997; member of the Executive Board of the Modern Language
Association Division of African Literature, 1995-2000

Teaching and research:

African women writers; orature; South African, West African,
East African literatures

Recent publications:

-- "Bessie Head: The Inappropriate Appropriation of Autobiography,"
in a collection of essays on Bessie Head, ed. Huma Ibrahim,
Africa World Press. Forthcoming.

-- "Narrative Journeys: From Orature to Postmodernism in
Soyinka's THE ROAD and Okri's THE FAMISHED ROAD" in MULTICULTURALISM AND
HYBRIDITY IN AFRICAN LITERATURES, eds. Hal Wylie and Bernth Lindfors,
Trenton, NJ: African World Press, 2000.