Omar Dieng
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
Biography
Dr. Dieng earned his master檚 and Ph.D. degrees at The Ohio State University in African American and African Studies after completing a master檚 degree in African and postcolonial Studies at Universit茅 Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal. His doctoral dissertation 淩ace, Cultural and National Identity in the Diaspora: Trajectories of Black Subjectivities,� offers a comparative study of Black subjectivities in Europe with a particular focus on France and Britain. Before joining the College of 黑料老司机, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Case Western Reserve University in Humanities in Leadership and Learning Series program.Dr. Dieng檚 teaching and research interests include cultural relations between Africa, Europe, and America with a focus on race theory, cultural studies, identity politics, citizenship, and migration in literature, philosophy, and film.
Selected Publications & Presentations
Articles
- 淎fro-European Pan-Africanism: A Twenty-first Century Black Europeans� Mobilizations.� Journal of African American Studies, October 28, 2022.
- 淭he Politics of Blackness and Citizenship in Post-1980s France.� Humanities Bulletin, January 2023.
- 淏lackness/Africanness, Cultural Nationalism, and Belonging in Post-1980s Afro-European Literature,� Research in African Literatures, (submitted, under review)
Review Articles
- Review: Diaspora & Returns in Fiction by Ernest N. Emenyonu, Research in African Literatures, (49.2). October 2018.
- Review: Hope Draped in Black, Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress by Joseph R. Winters, Spectrum, (6.1). November 2017.
M.A. Thesis
- 淭he Relation between Race and the State: The Politics of Resistance of the Post-colonial African Diaspora in France.� Ohiolink, Spring 2018.
Presentations
- 淏lackness/Africanness, Cultural Nationalism, and Belonging in Post-1980s Afro-European Literature,滱frican Literature Association, University of Knoxville , Tennessee, May 24-27, 2023.
- 淏lackness/Africanness, Cultural Nationalism, and Belonging in Post-1980s Afro-European Literature,� Northeast Modern Language Association, Niagara Falls New York, March 23-26, 2023.
- �(De)constructing Existence, (Re)imagining Identities, Cultures, and Histories.� Graduate Fellows Roundtable, Society of Fellows� Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Grant, The Ohio State University, Fall 2021-Spring 2022,
- 淐osmopolitanism and the Politics of Blackness in Alain Mabanckou檚 Black Bazaar.� African Literature Association conference in Columbus, 2019.
- 淐osmopolitanism and the Politics of Blackness in Alain Mabanckou檚 Black Bazaar.� Encountering the Other conference at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2018.
- 淗umanitarianism and Anti-Blackness.� The 3rd International Symposium of the Dakar Institute of African Studies in Dakar, Senegal, 2017