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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]

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