Amadou Ouédraogo

Professor of Francophone Studies

Ph.D., University of Iowa Doctorat de troisième cycle, Université de Grenoble   Office: Griffin 442 Phone: 337-482-5440 Email: amadou@louisiana.edu   Teaching and Research Areas Sub-Saharan African Literature and Film; Caribbean Studies

Noteworthy

Amadou Ouédraogo is the UL Federal Credit Union II/BORSF Endowed Professor of Francophone Studies
. He is a former Fulbright scholar (Michigan State University), and a former British Council scholar (University of London). He has experience teaching and researching in both Francophone and Anglophone African Studies. He is an editorial board member for several scholarly journals including Études Francophones and Francophonies d’Amérique.

1. Rites et allégories de l’initiation: Visions africaines et caribéennes (2009)
2. L’univers mythique d’Ahmadou Kourouma: Entre vision et subversion (2014)
3. L’imaginaire dans l’esthétique romanesque de Jean-Marie Adiaffi : Une lecture de La carte d’identité (2015) 
4. The Aesthetics of Mandé Hunting Tradition in African Fiction (2017) 
5. Visages du féminin et esthétique du mythe chez Jean-Marie Adiaffi (2020)