Ginette Curry

Ginette Curry holds a Ph.D. in African American/Post-Colonial Literatures, a B.A. in Italian and a M.A in International Relations from the Sorbonne University, Paris III. She is an Affiliate Faculty of FIU Women Studies Program and of the Initiative on Race, Gender and Globalization (IRGG) at Yale University.

In 2011, she wrote the play In Search of Maba: A 19th Century Epic from Senegambia, West Africa, which is the dramatic re-enactment of the life of Maba Diakhou Bâ (1809-1867) who played a major role in spreading Islam during a critical time in 19th century Senegambian history. Dr. Curry also wrote recent book reviews in African Studies Review (ASR), JENDA (A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies), Affilia (A Journal of Women and Social Work) and West Africa Review (WAR). In the past years and in the FIU African and African Diaspora Program, she has designed and taught several literature courses at the graduate and undergraduate level.

In 2007, her book chapter entitled “African Literature” was published in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures: Sub-Saharan Africa. Also, in July 2008, Dr. Curry’s article “African Women, Tradition and Change in Cheikh Hamidou Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure (1962) and Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter (1982)” appeared in The Journal of Pan African Studies, a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed academic journal.

Finally, Dr. Curry is in the process of finalizing two upcoming book publications on pre-colonial Africa and multiracial themes in African-European literature.

Born and raised in France, she is married to the lawyer Haccord Curry. In the introduction to Awakening African Origins, she describes her ancestors as Tukulor elites from Senegal.