Language(s) taught
French
Teaching/Research
French Language and Literature, Francophone Cultural Aesthetics, Sublime and Politics, Rhetorics of Postcoloniality (Arts, Cultures and Postcolonial History and Politics, feminine and Feminist Studies, Humanitarian Politics in the Third World), African and Africana Studies (Literature, Cinema, Comedy, comics and Music), Literary Movements in France and in the Francophone World, Interdisciplinary Studies (Intertextuality, Intermediality, Intersectionality, Intergenerecity, Hybridity, Identity), Literature and Philosophy, Global South Studies.
Degrees/Certifications
PhD, French (2023) University of Virginia
MA, French (2017) University of New Mexico
Maîtrise, African Literatures and Civilizations (LCA) (2010) University of Yaoundé I
BA, African and Diasporic Literatures (LINA) (2006) University of Yaoundé I
Personal Bio
Dr Stephanie Diane Tsakeu Mazan is a proud Daughter of Cameroon, a country whose nickname is “Africa in Miniature”. Born in a family where teaching runs in the blood, she embarked herself on the teaching journey in 2009. She taught French language and Francophone literatures in several high schools in her home country. She has been teaching French (Elementary and Intermediate levels) since 2015 when she moved in the US, in addition to being a guest lecturer in several upper-division classes and graduate seminars in several departments in the US as well in some Francophone countries. Passionate about teaching and doing research, her goal in life is to try to put a smile on every face she meets. Her teaching and research put an emphasis on the communalities that exist across cultures, in relationship with the African Philosophy of Ubuntu: “I am because we are.”
Publications/Presentations
“Femmes de couleur et difficile construction de la sororité dans Heremakhonon de Maryse Condé et Le lys et le flamboyant d’Henri Lopes,” in Solid/taires : Féminismes et sororités dans les productions artistiques françaises et francophones (édité par Ramona Mielusel), Brill Publishers, 2023.
“La réhabilitation des héros oubliés de la colonie dans le roman monénembien : entre autophagie du discours dominant et dérivation historique”, in Agapes francophones 2022. “Sur l’expression (non)conforme de la pensée politiquement in.correcte .” Actes du XVI e Colloque International d’Études Francophones “Politiquement (in)correct en francophonie. (In)Conformismes de la pensée et de la parole,” tenu à l’Université de l’Ouest de Timişoara les 17 et 18 mars. Études réunies par Georgiana I. Badea et Andreea Gheorghiu. Timişoara, Editura Universităţii de Vest din Timişoara, 2023, pp. 155-169. ISBN 9789731259826
Politiques de la Critique: essai sur les limites et la réinvention de la critique francophone by Kasereka Kavwahirehi, Research in African Literatures, vol. 53, no. 2, Indiana University Press, pp. 197-200, Summer 2022.
“Tierno Monénembo, un engagement de biais: une lecture de L’aîné des orphelins,” 2019 Mouvances francophones Vol.4, No.1 https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/mf/issue/view/953.
“Le lys et le flamboyant d’Henri Lopes: engagement politique et création artistique,” 2019. Legs Editions, Littérature et Politique Vol 14, N o 2.
Title: Assistant Professor, French and Francophone Studies
Department: Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Email address: Email me
Phone: (828) 262-8512