Valérie Thiers-Thiam (The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa)

Submitted: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 17:16:30 -0500



Valérie Thiers-Thiam
Assistant Professor
555 Phillips Hall
The University of Iowa 
Iowa city, Iowa  52242  USA

phone:  319 335 2261
e-mail: valerie-thiers-thiam@uiowa.edu



Specialization: Cinema and Literature of Francophone West-Africa
Area of research: Oral tradition, Mande culture, griot, Epics.

Ph.D. Dissertation: "A chacun son griot: le griot-narrateur dans la
littérature et le cinéma d'Afrique de l'ouest."  (New York
University)

Forthcoming book: "A chacun son griot". Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002.