Current publication projects include:

A co-edited book project on francophone African futures, working title:  Decolonising the Future? Challenges for Francophone Africa and the Diaspora including a chapter on gender and migration

An article on ‘Felwine Sarr’s ‘Ateliers de la pensée’ and new directions towards an Afrotopia’ for a book on Africa in Global Intellectual Thought

An article on Marie Darrieussecq’s Notre vie dans la forêt for a special edition of L’Esprit Créateur on ‘Challenging Normative Spaces and Gazes : The Body in 20th and 21st Centure Francophone Cultures’

Publications

2014 - ‘Embodied spaces and out-of-body experiences in Le Pays’ in Marie Darrieussecq, eds. G.Rye and H. Chadderton, Dalhousie French Studies 97

2013 -  ‘Relocating the traditional in the Senegalese classroom’ in Contesting historical divides is French-speaking Africa, ed. C.Griffiths, University of Chester Press

2013 -  ‘Storytelling and Play in a Pular Village’ in Between Work and Play: French and Francophone Women and Leisure, N.Morello and K. Jones (eds.)  Nottingham French Studies, vol52, no.1 Spring 2013

May 2008 -  ‘Rhythms, Repetitions and Rewritings in Passion Simple by Annie Ernaux’, in Rhythms. Essays in French Literature, Thought and Culture, eds. E. Linndley & L. McMahon Oxford Peter Lang (Modern French Identities)

April 2005  -  co-wrote article Shelving Translation for In Other Words, Summer 2005, No.25, published by the British Centre for Literary Translation.

March 2005 -  co-edited Shelving Translation: The role of the translated text in Britain Today A special edition for Brunel University’s on-line journal EnterText.  http://www.brunel.ac.uk/faculty/arts/EnterText/issue_4_3_s.htm 

Conferences, lectures and seminars

November 2018 – Felwine Sarr’s ‘Atelier de la pensée’: New directions towards an ‘Afroptopia’ for the Africa in Global Intellectual Thought conference in Berlin

May 2018 - Feminism and May ’68 for the ‘May 1968 – Events in France’ public lecture at the Storyhouse, Chester

September 2017- Exercices de style: Running with Jean Echenoz at the ASMCF conference at the University of Bangor

January 2016- Voices from the seas, Senegalese Migration to Europe at the Northern Postcolonial Network conference on ‘Asylum, Migration and Refugees’ at the University of Salford, Mediacity

May 2015 – The Rise and Rise of Urban Wolof: Building New Communities and Identities in 21st Century Senegal at the YASN conference on ‘Family, Community and Livelihoods’ at the University of Sheffield

June 2013  - Renegotiating social identity in 21st century Senegal at ECAS conference ‘African Dynamics in a Multipolar World’, Lisbon, Portugal.

November 2012  - Language and the renegotiation of social and self-identity in Senegal Modern Languages Dept Research Seminar, University of Chester

September 2012 - A war of words: Linguistic and Literary Practices in 21st Century Senegal at ASAUK, Leeds University

December 2011 - An African Voice against Migration: Mbeke mi by Abasse Ndione at RIA Modern Languages Sympopsium, Dublin DIT

February 2011 - Keepers of Tradition: Storytelling in the Senegalese classroom at LSE conference on Storytelling and Language learning.

October 2010 - Where have I left my body? Embodied spaces and out of body experiences in the work of Marie Darrieussecq at A Decade of Women’s Writing in France conference, Centre for the Study of contemporary Women’s Writing

September 2010 - co-organised Post-slavery, post-imperial, post-colonial? Contesting historical divides in francophone Africa colloquium at University of Chester presented Reimagining culture in the classroom.

November 2009 - Grandmother’s Tales: Senegalese storytelling as cultural exchange at the Cultural Exchange conference for Royal Irish Academy for Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies at trinity College Dublin

October 2009 - The case of the case des tout petits at Romance Studies conference, New Jersey, USA

May 2009 - The female griot at ‘Women at Play’ international conference of Women in French at Aston University, Birmingham

November 2008 - Ta(l)king to the seas at ‘Postcoloniality and Ecology’ International conference at Roehampton University

March 2008 - three guest lectures at the University of Warwick, Apollinaire;, Baudelaire Sex and the Cit;y Baudelaire and the Making of the Modern.