Steve Bishop
Professor
Email: sbishop@unm.edu
Office: Ortega 323C
Personal Website
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Education:
Ph.D. in French and Francophone Literature, University of Michigan, May 1999
Research Interests:
Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, French
Research Statement:
- Confluence of shame and guilt in the formation of postcolonial African identities.
- Child soldiers in Africa.
- Interdisciplinary work in law and literature in African, French, and US literature.
- Comparisons of French and Francophone Feminist Theory.
- Cameroonian literature, politics, and culture.
Recent/Select Publications:
Books Authored
(2021) Scripting Shame in African Literature (Liverpool University Press)
(2008) Legal Oppositional Narrative: A Case Study in Cameroon (Lexington Books)
Book Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Volumes
(2019) “Anansi the Spider: Individual Trickery and Communal Integrity,” Portraits of Integrity (Eds. Rachael Wiseman, Amber Carpenter, and Charlotte Alston) Bloomsbury Publishing, p. 168-74.
(2009) “Oppositional Approaches to Female Genital Mutilation in African Literature,” Empathy and Rage, Ayebia Clarke Publishing, p. 38-51.
(2002) “Literature in the Law: The Legal Clando in Cameroon.” Cycnos (“Droit et Littérature” special edition) Vol. 19 No. 2, p. 147-60.
(2001) “Témoignage du sang: la justice des vieilles familles.”; The Art and Genius of Anne Hébert; ed. Janis Pallister; Fairleigh Dickinson UP, p. 264-73.
Courses:
- African Folktales and Proverbs
- Immigrant Europe
- La Justice littéraire
- African Women and Liberation Struggle
- Law and Literature
- African Great Books
- Le devoir de violence (African Lit.)
- Children in Conflict (African Lit.)
- La honte et la culpabilité dans la littérature africaine
- Rebels With a Cause (African Lit.)
- French Composition (Francophone Cinema)
- La littérature française tout courte
- From Paris to Provence (study abroad course)
- French Composition (Un regard sur l’Afrique Centrale)
- Féminisme(s) Français et Francophone
- La Criminelle de la France
- African Women Writers
- Stylistics and Translation
- (R)évolution de la justice
- Ecrire l’Identité au Québec
- A Literary Evolution of French Justice
- Advanced French Grammar
- Beur ou Français?
- Three Examples of Post-Colonial Development
- Bad Boys and Girls de la France
- French Philosophy and Literature
- Stamp Out Malaria
- Images of the Self: From Ancient Greece to Modern France
- Images of the State: The Western Tradition
