Team > Gilbert Shang Ndi, Ph.D.

Faculty of Languages and Literatures
Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies with a focus on Africa/Latin America

Current Position: 

Heisenberg Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Bayreuth.   

Ausbildung:

Forschung:

Geleitete Kurse:

• Winter Semester 2022/2023. Introduction to Diasporic Literatures.
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. 26 hours
  
• Winter Semester 2022/2023. Writing Scientific Texts. (with Dr Katrin Pfandenauer)
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. 13 hours
  
• Winter Semester 2021/2022. Introduction to Digital Literatures.
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. 26 hours
• Winter semester 2022/2023. Overview of African Literatures (with Prof. Clarissa Vierke):
  MA African Verbal and Visual Arts,
  University of Bayreuth. 13 hours
  
• Winter Semester 2022/2023. Méthodologie de la Recherche.
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. 26 hours
  
• Summer semester 2022. Mapping Postcolonial Criticism: Fanon, Said and Mbembe. MA/PhD Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. 13 hours
  
• Winter Semester 2021/2022. Méthodologie de la Recherche.
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. 26 hours
  
• Winter semester 2020/2021. Overview of African Literatures (with Prof. Okongo Basil, Moi University, Kenya):
  MA African Verbal and Visual Arts,
  University of Bayreuth. 13 hours
  
• Winter Semester 2021/2022. Initiation à la Recherche.
  MA Course. Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. 26 hours
  
• Summer Semester 2021. Application de la théorie et la critique littéraires,
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. 26 hours
• Winter Semester 2020/2021 “Les Francophonies en Europe”,
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. 26 hours
  
• Winter Semester 2020/2021,“Initiation à la Recherche”.
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  University of Bayreuth. 26 hours
  
• Winter Semester 2020/2021, “Introduction to Comparative Literature” (with Dr. Mariam Popal),
  MA Course. Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  University of Bayreuth. 26 hours
  
• Summer Semester, 2020. “Les classiques de la Littérature d’Afrique Francophone et les Imaginations du Sujet/de la Société Africain,”
  University of Bayreuth. 26 hours
  
• Winter Semester, 2019/2020. “Francophonie: Histoire et Institutions.”
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  University of Bayreuth. 26 hours
  
• Winter Semester 2019. “Words that Empower” African Literature Seminars/Workshop, collaboration between Language and Cultures Department(Universidad de los Andes) and La Corporacion Manos Visibles,
  Bogota, 2019. 20 hours
  
• Winter semester 2017. “El Nacionalismo y los procesos políticos en África”.
  MA/PhD Course, Language and Cultures,
  Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. 42h50 minutes
• Winter Semester 2016/2017. “Francophonie: Histoire et Institutions”.
  Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. MA Course, 16 hours.
  
• Winter Semester 2014/2015. “Les Francophonies en Europe”,
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. 26 hours
  
• Winter Semester 2013/2014. “Introduction to African Poetry”
  BA Course, English Studies/Anglophone Literature,
  Bayreuth University, 13 hours
  
• Initiation à la Recherche,
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University. 26 hours
  
• Théories/Méthodes de la Recherche,
  MA Course, Romance Literature/Comparative Studies,
  Bayreuth University.26 hours  

Theses Examined:

• September, 2022 (In process) Olga Marlene Campo Ruiz, El entierro de Marchán, memoria colectiva de reparación y liberación.
  Doctorate Thesis in the Humanities, Universidad del Valle.   
  
• June 2021. Aka Konan Alain Theophile, Representaciones de la cuestión identitaria en el discurso afrocolombiano dentro de la obra la bruja de las minas de gregorio sánchez gómez. (As external examiner).
  Master’s Thesis, pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia.  
• September 2020. Olga Marlene Campo Ruiz, El entierro de Marchán, memoria colectiva de reparación y liberación.
  Evaluation/Defence of Thesis Proposal, Humanities Faculty,
  Universidad del Valle. (As external examiner)
  
• November 2022. Olga Marlene Campo Ruiz, El entierro de Marchán, memoria colectiva de reparación y liberación.
  Evaluation/Thesis Defence, Humanities Faculty,
  Universidad del Valle. (As external examiner)
  
• June 2019. Dami, Emmanuel Adat. “Allocentric Aspects in the Novels of William Sassine (PHD),
  University of Rhodes.” (As external examiner)   

Thesis Mentored:

• June 2019-June 2023 Thierry Boudjekeu. Writing the Slave Trade Trauma in Francophone Africa: A Study of Selected Novels.
  PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth. (Main Supervisor: Prof. Dr Ute Fendler)
• 2021-2022. Kelvin Acheampong. The Literary Turn(s)in African Studies: The Contribution of the three Generations of African Writers to the Advancement of Decoloniality in African Studies.
  MA Thesis. European Interdisciplinary Masters African Studies.   
• 2021-2022. Adebanjo Oreulowa. "La mémoire et le silence dans la littérature Malgache d’expression: Une étude de l'Arbre Anthropophage de Jean Luc Raharimanana et Juillet au Pays de Michèle Rakotoson".
  Masters in Francophone African Literature, University of Bayreuth.  

Journal Reviewer for:

• JALA—Journal of the African Literature Association
  https://africanlit.org/ala-publications/jala/
• International Journal of English and Literature https://academicjournals.org/journal/IJEL
• Contemporary Journal of African Studies
  https://ias.ug.edu.gh/content/contemporary-journal-african-studies-cjas
• The Postcolonial Text
  https://www.postcolonial.org/index.php/pct 
• Education as Change
  https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/redc20  
• Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking  
  https://www.liebertpub.com/loi/cyber  
• Social Sciences Research Council, SSRC, New York (for the selection of doctorate and postdoc fellows for the programme: Next Generation of Social Sciences in Africa, 2021, 2022, 2023) 
• Perífrasis: Revista de literatura, teoría y critica
  https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/journal/perifrasis

Literary Workshops:

• February-May, 2019. Parallel Virtual Workshops on African Literature/Creative Writing with Participants from Quibdo and Tumaco.
  
• 11 March, 2019. Fictional (Auto)biographies in The Thing around your Neck (Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie) Black Boy (Richard Wright).
  Buenaventura, Colombia.
  
• 27 April 2019. Personal narratives, shared stories: Texts : The Power of the Invisible (Paula Moreno) Born a Crime (Trevor Noah)
  Buenaventura, Colombia.
  
• 06 April 2019. Love/War, Text: Weep Not, Child (James Ngũgĩ)
  Buenaventura, Colombia.
• 23 March 2019. Literature/Cultural Identity: Things Falls Apart (Chinua Achebe) Buenaventura, Colombia.
  
• 8-9 March 2019. Introduction: African Historical Contexts and Literary Responses: A Man of the People (Chinua Achebe), Ghana must go (Taiye Selasi)
  Buenaventura, Colombia.
  
• Host for the literary dialogue series "Literatura Hoy" - Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Colombia. (Featured authors: Biyi Bandele (Nigeria/UK), Joyce Ash (Cameroon/USA), Susan Kiguli (Uganda), Jean Bofane (Congo/Belgium), Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique), Lebogang Mashile (South Africa), Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe).
  https://www.banrepcultural.org/programas/literatura-hoy-desde-la-blaa/version-2021-africa-el-pulso-de-un-continente 

Awards, Fellowships and Scholarships: 

• March 2017- (current) Membership in the “Young College” Programme, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.  
• June 2017 - 2019 Feodor Lynen Fellow Alexander von Humboldt foundation   
  
• April 2015 - March 2017 Fritz Thyssen Postdoctoral Fellowship  
  
• 2014 - 2015: Short-term Fellowship, Academic Assistant at the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies.  
  
• 2013: DAAD Prize 2013, University of Bayreuth.   
  
• 2010-2011: DAAD Scholarship for completion of PhD Thesis.
  
• 2010: BIGSAS Preparatory Course Sponsorship.  
  
• 2006: Academic Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences, University of Yaoundé 1, Cameroon.  

Language Proficiency:

• Limbum (mother tongue)  
  
• English, French, German, Spanish (advanced)  
  
• Portuguese (inter-mediate) 
  
• Italian (basic)  
  
• Swahili (basic)   

Hobbies:

• Creative Writing, Translation, Travelling, Language Learning.  

Faculty of Languages and Literatures
Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies with a focus on Africa/Latin America

Research and Teaching Interests:

• Anglophone and Francophone African postcolonial/decolonial literatures  
• Latin American Literatures with emphasis on Perú, Colombia, Bolivia  
• Afrolatino Literatures from Perú, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil  
• Relationships between Literature, Politics, History  
• Narratives of war/violence and corporeality   
• Cyber literatures/digital humanities and Intermedial phenomena  
• Literary commitment   

Professional Affiliations:

• African Literature Association (ALA)
  
• African Studies Association (ASA)
  
• Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA)
  
• African Studies in Germany (VAD)
  
• European Conference on African Studies (ECAS)
  
• Modern Literature Association (MLA)
  
• Corporación Manos Visibles,
  
• Bogotá-Colombia Hispanic/Lusophone Caucus (ALA)
  
• Association Pour l’Etude des Littératures Africaines (APELA)
  
• Iberian Conference on African Studies (CIEA)
  
• International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA)
  
• International Auto/biography Association Worldwide
  
• DjumbaiALA – Latin America and Africa in Dialogue
  
• International Auto/Biography Association (IABA)  

Faculty of Languages and Literatures
Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies with a focus on Africa/Latin America

Publications

Faculty of Languages and Literatures
Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies with a focus on Africa/Latin America

Gilbert Shang Ndi, Ph.D.
Heisenberg Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Phone: +4915782476277
E-mail: Ndi-Gilbert.Shang@uni-bayreuth.de
Homepage: gilbertshang.com
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