Biodun Jeyifo
Professor of African and African American Studies and of Comparative Literature
Address:
Department of African and African American Studies
Harvard University
Barker Center, Room 258
12 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Email: bjeyifo@fas.harvard.edu
Phone: 617-384-9418
Fax: 617-496-2871
Courses
African and African American Studies 113: Fictions of Race, Facts of Racism: Perspectives from South African and African American Drama and Fiction
African and African American Studies 121: Please Wake UP! Race, Gender, Class and Ethnicity in the Early Films of Spike Lee
African and African American Studies 137: Literature and Its Cultural 'Others' - America, Africa and the Caribbean, 1950s-80s
Biography
Scholarly and Professional Interests: African and Caribbean 'Anglophone' literatures; theatrical theory and dramatic literature, Western and non-Western; comparative African and Afro-American critical thought; Marxist literary and cultural theory; colonial and postcolonial studies; twentieth-century revolutionary social philosophy and literature.