Dr. Christiane Ndiaye

Biography

Christiane Ndiaye is an Associate Professor at the University of Montreal, specializing in Francophone literatures of the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Maghreb. She completed her studies at the University of Bordeaux III and the University of Montreal. Ndiaye's teaching and research primarily focus on Caribbean and African literatures, drawing inspiration from the works of Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Marc Angenot, A.J. Greimas, and Édouard Glissant. Her theoretical approach intersects semiotics, sociocriticism, new rhetoric, and the poetics of genres, often exploring the discursive dimensions of literary works and the languages crafted by writers through the textualization of social discourses. Over the years, her research has particularly delved into figurative trajectories in African novels, reception narratives of Francophone literatures, women's writing, issues within popular genres, sentimental novels of the Caribbean, and humor in Francophone literature. She is currently the lead researcher of a collective research project titled 'For the People, by the People or Against the People: The Social Imaginary of the People in Francophone Literatures.' Her career includes significant engagement in Francophone exchange projects in countries like Senegal and Haiti, as well as active membership in professional associations advancing African and Caribbean literary studies.

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