Diaspora Studies

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Maya Angela Eipe Smith
Professor of French
Associate Dean for Equity, Justice and Inclusion

Latest News

Runner-Up, French and Italian Studies: Amanda Song (May 16, 2023)
Author Jessica Oublié Visits FRENCH 303 (November 29, 2022)
Modern Language Association Awards Maya Angela Smith the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies (December 14, 2020)
Filmmaker Visits French 499 - Qualtitative Research Methods Class (May 28, 2014)

Related Research

“Centering Race and Multilingualism in French Linguistics.” Decolonizing Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-56, 2024.
“Creating a More Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive French Foreign Language Classroom” in ADFL Bulletin, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 12-26, 2022.
“Navigating Gendered, Racialized, and Migrant Identities: Senegalese Women Artists’ Reflections on Learning Italian in Rome.” Interculturality in Institutions. Springer, pp. 87-115, 2022.
Smith, Maya Angela. "Inclusive pedagogies in Italian studies: Using sociolinguistic data to decolonise the curriculum." Italian Studies in Southern Africa, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 204-225, 2022.
Smith, Maya Angela. “The Journal Rappé: ‘Edutaining’ the Youth through Senegalese Hip-Hop.” Africa Every Day: Fun, Leisure, and Expressive Culture on the Continent, edited by Kemi Balogun, Lisa Gilman, Melissa Graboyes, and Habib Iddrisu. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2019.
Smith, Maya Angela. Senegal Abroad: Linguistic borders, racial formations, and diasporic imaginaries. University of Wisconsin Press, 2019.
Whittingham, Luke. “Gordijiguène and Colonialities : Importing Homophobia and Violence against Queers in Senegal.” 2018.
Smith, Maya Angela. French Heritage Language Learning: a Site of Community Building, Cultural Exploration and Self-reflection. Critical Multilingualism Studies 5(2), pp. 10-38, 2017.