Lisa McNee (Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)

Submitted: Wed, 10 May 2000 16:56:51 -0400


Lisa McNee
Assistant Professor
French Studies
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
K7L 3N6 
Canada

phone:   613-545-2093
fax:     613-545-6552
e-mail:  lm23@qsilver.queensu.ca


Teaching: 

Francophone and French Studies, African languages and literature,
Comparative Literature, folklore, Gender Studies, literary theory

Research:

My dissertation -- recently published as a book -- focuses on Senegalese
women's autobiographical discourses (Wolof and Francophone).  I explore
the construction of francophone women's gender and identity through the
matrix of autobiographical discourses. On-going research focuses on the
influences of Diaspora cultures on contemporary African literatures and
cultural forms (musical and other) and on the construction of childhood
through children's literatures.

Publications:

Selfish Gifts: Senegalese Women's Autobiographical Discourses. Albany,
New York: State University of New York Press, 2000.

"Le cadastre de la tradition: Propriété intellectuelle et
oralité en Afrique occidentale." Mots pluriels.  8 (october 1998)
[http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP898lmn.html]

"Togo" and "Senouvo Agbota Zinsou, Togolese Playwright in Exile" in
Censorship: An International Encyclopedia. Ed. Derek Jones. London:
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, forthcoming.

"Nafissatou Diallo." Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical
Sourcebook. Eds. Pushpa Parekh and Fatou Siga Jagne. Greenwood Press,
1998.

"Autobiographical Subjects." Research in African Literatures 28/2 (1997)
83-101.

Review of Manthia Diawara, African Cinema: Politics and Culture. Cinefocus
3 (1995) 43-45.

"That Which Was Empty Shall Be Filled: The Female Autobiographical Self
and The Other in Sindiwe Magona's TO MY CHILDREN'S CHILDREN." American
Comparative Literature Association Bulletin 24/2 (1993) 122-138.

"Teaching in the Multicultural Tempest." College Literature 19/3 (1993)
195-201.

Forthcoming:

"Back From Babylon: Popular Musical Cultures of teh Diaspora, Youth
Culture and Identity in Francophone West Africa." Music, Popular Culture,
Identities." Ed. Richard Young. Amsterdam: Rodopi, forthcoming.

"The Black and the White: Race and Oral Poetry in Mauritania." The Desert
Shore: Literatures of the African Sahel. Ed. Christopher Wise. Boulder:
Lynne Rienner, forthcoming.

"Initiations: L'aventure ambiguk et l'espace liminaire de la lecture."
Milanges en l'honneur de Janos Riesz. Ed. H.-J. Lisebrink and Papa Samba
Diop.

"Ourika en famille." French Prose in 1999. Ed. Michael Bishop. Amsterdam:
Rodopi.