Professor Dr. Doyle Calhoun

Biography

Doyle D. Calhoun is a University Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, focusing on Francophone Postcolonial Studies. His research encompasses a broad range of topics related to African and Caribbean literatures and cinemas, particularly exploring Senegalese literature and film in relation to French and Wolof contexts. Calhoun is the author of 'Suicide Archive: Reading Resistance in the Wake of the French Empire' (Duke University Press, 2024) and has received the thirty-third annual MLA Aldo Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies. He has worked on significant translation projects, including a forthcoming translation of Léopold Sédar Senghor’s prose works and has edited volumes that highlight the convergence of literature and audiovisual artforms in Senegal. His public-facing criticism has appeared in various venues, including the Los Angeles Review of Books and Salon. Calhoun is known for his engagement in academic discourse and has received multiple awards for his articles that explore missionary colonial linguistics and historical sociolinguistics. He holds a Ph.D. in French from Yale University (2022) and has prior teaching experience at Trinity College, Connecticut.

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