PHYLLIS TAOUA is Professor of French and Francophone Studies and is affiliated with Africana Studies, the Honors College, the Human Rights Program and the World Literature Program. She teaches courses on African literature and cinema, Critical Theory, and Pan-African Protest Movements. Author of two books and dozens of articles, she is the recipient of the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation award and is Resident Fellow at the Du Bois Institute at Harvard.