Africana Studies
North Academic Building
85 Mission Park Drive
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267
Phone: (413) 597-2242
Fax: (413) 597-4222

Chair:
Prof. Shanti M. Singham
ssingham@williams.edu

Administrative Assistant:
Lucy Gardner Carson
Lucy.G.Carson@williams.edu
Stéphane Robolin received his Ph.D. in English with a graduate certificate in African and African American Studies at Duke University in 2005.  He came directly to graduate school from his undergraduate studies at Tulane University in New Orleans.  While completing his Ph.D., Robolin taught at Wake Forest University and, subsequently, taught as a visitor in the English Department at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.  His research interests include African Diaspora studies, twentieth-century African and African American literatures, postcolonial theory, and feminist theory.  He is the author of several essays published in the journals Research in African Literature and Modern Fiction Studies, as well as in a forthcoming edited volume entitled  African Diasporas:  Race, Citizenship, and Modern Subjectivities.  Currently preoccupied with the entanglements of race and space, Robolin is at work on a book project—provisionally entitled Constructive Engagements—about the convergences and divergences in black South African and African American literatures during the apartheid era.  While at Williams College, he has taught courses on African literature, the African diaspora, and critical studies in race, gender and geography.  When not writing or teaching, Robolin reads and travels.