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Samuel Zadi
Assistant Professor of French
On faculty since 2004

Office: WYN 203
Phone: (630) 752-5794
E-mail: Samuel.Zadi@wheaton.edu


Education

Ph.D. French
University of Missouri - Columbia, 2004.

D.E.A., French and Francophone Literatures,
Université Nationale de Côte d’Ivoire, 1996.

Maîtrise, French Language and Literature
Université Nationale de Côte d’Ivoire, 1994.

Licence, French Language and Literature
Université Nationale de Cote d’Ivoire, 1993.

 
Professional and Personal Interests
Francophone African literatures, cinema and cultures.
Francophone Carribean literatures and cultures postcolonial theory
Soccer, tennis, jogging, reading, travels


Courses Taught

French 101: Elementary French 1
French 102: Elementary French 2
French 201: Intermediate French
French 331: French Conversation
French 334: Masterpieces of Francophone Literatures
French 439: Introduction to Francophone Literature
French 439: Francophone Women Voices from African and the Caribbean
French 439: Francophone Cultures French 431: Advanced Conversation

Membership in Professional Societies

AATF (American Association of French Teachers)
CIEF (Conseil International d’Études Francophones)
ALA (African Literature Association)

Research

Francophone African literatures, cinema and cultures.
Francophone Carribean literatures and cultures
postcolonial theory

Papers Published and/or Presented

Publications:

Samuel Zadi. Pensee Imageante, Destruction et Decheance.
Un Donsomana pour Kourouma. ed. Pierre Kadi Sossou and Bernadette Kassi-Krecoum (Berlin: Verlag, 2007), 87-8.

Samuel Zadi. "Realite ou Travestissement: Image de l'Afrique dans Faat Kine de Sembane Ousmane, The French Review (Forthcoming: Fall 2008).

Samuel Zadi. Quand Kourouma Ironise sur la Colonisation (under review)

Samuel Zadi. "The Dilemna of Sembene Ousmane: comment denoncer sans perpetuer les stereotypes? (under review)

Samuel Zadi. La communaute comme facteur de regression sociale dans Le Ventre de l'atlantique de Fatou Diome. (Under Review)


Presentations:

Le Dilemme de Sembene Ousmane: comment dénoncer sans perpétuer les stéréotypes? Cincinnati Romance Conference. Cincinnati, OH, May 2007.

Monnè, la Métaphore du Train et les Promesses non-Tenues. American Association of Teachers of French. Milwaukee, WI, July 2006.

« Naturel sénégalais, Masques Français chez Sembene Ousmane.» North Carolina Romance Conference. Chapell Hill, NC, March 2006.

"Faat Kiné, un Contre-Discours a l'Afro Pessimisme?." Cincinnati Romance Conference. Cincinnati, May 2006.

Pensée imageante, déchéance et destruction dans l’oeuvre dAhmadou Kourouma.» Conseil International d’Études Francophones. Gatineau, QC (Canada), June 2005.

« Home Video Movies and Literature in Africa : from the Trap to the Stimulator.» African Literature Association. Boulder, CO, April 2005

“Shall I be a Giver or the Receiver? Sembène Ousmane and the Gift?" North American Christian Foreign Languages Association. Palos Heights, March 2005.

« De la Fonction poétique dans Le Baobab fou de Ken Bugul.» Cincinnati Annual Romance Conference. Cincinnati, OH, March  2000.

« The Destiny of French Language and Culture in the Former French Colonies,» The Future for Africa Conference. Columbia, MO, 1999.

« Littérature francophone Africaine: de l’oralité à l’ère postcoloniale.» Institut des Sciences et Techniques de la Communication. Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 1999.

« Postcolonial Poetry from West-Africa : Pacéré Titinga and the Poetry of the Drum. » Goshen College, IN, 1998.