Felicity Palmer (University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg)

Submitted:  Sat, February 27, 2010


Dr. Felicity Palmer
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Southern Mississippi
118 College Drive
Box 5037
Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406  USA

phone: 601 266 4259
email: felicity.palmer@usm.edu


Research and teaching Interests: Anglophone and Francophone African 
literature, postcolonial literature, African women writers.

Her doctoral dissertation compared the novels of two contemporary African 
women writers, Yvonne Vera from Zimbabwe and Calixthe Beyala from 
Cameroon.  She focuses on the authors' depictions of women's experiences 
of sexual pleasure and trauma, exploring the unexpected connection between 
these experiences and post-independence questions of freedom and modernity 
in contemporary Africa.


Recent publications:

"Sex in the Postcolonial City: Desire, Kinship, and Freedom in Yvonne 
Vera's Without a Name," Stichproben: Vienna Journal of African Studies, 
No. 11, December 2006, p. 27-44.