Dr. Chantal Kalisa

Assistant Professor of French

1128 Oldfather Hall
402-472-3747
mkalisa2@unl.edu

Chantal Kalisa, Assistant Professor (Ph.D. University of Iowa). She teaches courses on Francophone African and Caribbean literatures and cultures with particular emphasis on postcolonial and gender studies. Her research focuses on representation of gendered violence in those literatures, particularly by women, the topic of a book manuscript, currently under publication contract with NU Press. She has published articles on Gisèle Pineau, Ken Bugul, Michèle Lacrosil, Sembène Ousmane, Aminata Sow Fall and Frantz Fanon. She contributed to and co-edited (with Prof. Rangira Béatrice Gallimore, U. of Missouri-Columbia), Dix ans après: Réflexions sur le génocide rwandais (L'Harmattan, 2005), a volume of essays on the 1994 Rwandan genocide.