Phyllis Taoua is professor of French and Francophone Studies; she is also an affiliated with the Honors College, Africana Studies, the World Literature Program, the Masters in Human Rights Practice at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She teaches courses on African literature and cinema, French Theory, Global Africa, Pan-African Protest Movements and Contemporary France. She is the author of Forms of Protest: Anti-Colonialism and Avant-Gardes in Africa, the Caribbean and France Heinemann) and African Freedom Cambridge University Press) She is also the editor of special issues on Sembène Ousmane and Mongo Beti published by Études littéraires africaines. Other recent publications have appeared in World Literature Today, The Cambridge Companion to the African Novel, Transition, SubStance, Research in African Literatures, Cahier d’Études Africaines, South Central Review and Journal of African Cultural Studies. She was the recipient of a Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation award and Resident Fellow at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. She was elected to the Executive Committee of the Division on African Literatures at the Modern Language Association and has presented her research in North America, Europe and Africa. She was a Tucson Public Voices fellow with the Op-Ed Project, 2015-2016.