Habi DiopPhD StudentFrench
Biography
Habi Diop is a first-year PhD student in the Department of French and Italian. She has a BA in African languages and literature with a specialization in Fulani literature from Institut National des Langues et Cultures Orientales (INALCO), Paris.
In 2013, she got the Fulbright Scholarship and served as a French teaching assistant at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania.
Her research engages with African and Afro-diasporic women writers and their experience of girlhood in literature. She would like to explore the relation between girlhood, feminism and creation of art as a mean of resistance.
Her research interests include African girlhood studies, black feminism, Francophone literature, Caribbean literature and African film studies.
She plans to pursue a certificate in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is also member of the Institute of African Studies at Emory University.
