Karim Traore
Associate Professor
219 Joe Brown Hall
(706) 542-8123
ktraore@uga.edu
Education: Ph.D. - University of Saarbrucken & University of Bayreuth
Current Research Interests: African literatures and cinema, Literary and Cognitive
anthropology (myths and local knowledge), Popular Culture in Africa
Courses Taught: World
Literature II, Women and African Literature, Myth in Culture,
African Literature I, African Languages and Folklore, African Cinema and Francophone/Lusophone
Literature
Selected Publications:
Le jeu et le sérieux. Essai d'anthropologie
littéraire sur la poésie épique des chasseurs
du Mande (Afrique de l'Ouest). Köppe Verlag, Reihe ‘Studien
zur Kulturkunde'.
Die Verlobte des Marabut. Marchen und Mythen aus Westafrika. Aachen: MVG.
Regional Interests: Entire Continent, especially the Mande of Sahelian
West Africa [Guinea, Senegal, Mali, and Burkina Faso] |