Moustapha Ly
Associate Professor, French & Francophone Studies
What I do
Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Professional Biography
Moustapha Ly majored in English and Anglophone Studies at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. After his pre-doctoral degree, he continued his studies in the US at Kansas State University where he earned an MA in Modern Languages and Literatures (French and Francophone Studies). Then, he was admitted to the graduate program of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where he completed his PhD in Francophone Studies on the oeuvre of Édouard Glissant. He specializes in postcolonial literatures and studies in the Francophone Caribbean and the Black Diaspora in general. His publications on the African novel of postcolonial disillusionment and in Francophone Caribbean literature have appeared in international and national journals such as The French Review, The Journal of African and Postcolonial Studies, Dalhousie French Studies.
He joined the University of Denver in Fall 2015 after one year of postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan.
Degree(s)
- Ph.D., Romance Languages and Literatures (Francophone Studies), University of Michigan, 2014
- MA, Modern Languages and Literatures (Francophone Studies), Kansas State University, 2008
- MA, English and Anglophone Studies, Universite Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, 2004
Licensure / Accreditations
- Collaborative Online International Learning Institute (COIL)
- Certificate of Completing: Designing Online Course Short Course
- Graduate Certificate in African Studies
Professional Affiliations
- Caribbean Philosophical Association
- African Literature Association
- French Colonial Historical Society
- Modern Language Association
Featured Publications
Presentations
Awards
- Internationalization Grant, Office of Internationalization
- Rosenberry Grant, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- Internationalization Grant, University of Denver