A native of Senegal, Marame Gueye joined the ECU English faculty in 2007. She specializes in African and African Diaspora Literatures and is particularly interested in Oral Literature and constructions of gender. She is currently working on a book on how African women negotiate voice and space through verbal art. She is also completing an essay on soccer and immigration in Senegal. Prior to coming to ECU, Dr Gueye held a three year Andrew Mellon postdoctoral fellowship at Vassar College.


Degrees
Ph.D. State University of New York at Binghamton
M.A. Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal
B.A. Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal


Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
African Oral Literature
Gender and Feminist Studies
Immigration Studies
Hip-Hop Culture
Translation Studies


Courses Taught
6380: Studies in African Literature
1000: Appreciating Literature


Selected Publications and Presentations
“Singing the Laabaan, Teaching Sex and Sexuality.” The Verbal Art of Women from the Sahel and Savannah. Ed. Hale, Thomas and Aissata Sidikou-Norton. Indianapolis: Indiana UP. (forthcoming in 2008)

“The Battle of the Words: Orature as Women’s Resistance Tool to the Challenges of Polygamy in Contemporary Wolof Society.” African Women Writing Resistance. Ed. Brody de Hernandez, Jennifer. (forthcoming)