Africa and Science Fiction (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

01.16.2024. I will be leading a class on “Africa and Science Fiction” in Mingqing Yuan’s MA-seminar, “What is Africa?” at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. The seminar will include discussion of two short films, Wanuri Kahiu’s Pumzi (2009) and Frances Nuotama Bodomo’s Afronauts (2014). Previous work on these and related topics is available here and here.

Out now: “Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, THE DICTATOR NOVEL: WRITERS AND POLITICS IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH (Northwestern UP 2019),” interview with Victoria Lupașcu for NEW BOOKS NETWORK (podcast)

The Festivals are the Real Novels: The Latin American Writer on the World-Literary Circuit (Harvard U)