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Mariame SY holds a Doctorat d’Etat from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. Since 1998, she is a full professor with tenure at the English Department, University of Dakar where she started teaching in 1979. Before joining the University of Dakar, she was Assistant-Professor at the University of Sorbonne, Paris III. Until 1977, Professor Sy specialized in African literature and civilization with emphasis on West African militant writing. She submitted a Master thesis on the Nigerian novel with a focus on Chinua Achebe and Cyprien Ekwensi (1971), and the PhD Dissertation on the topic of Nationalism in the African Novel in English. From 1980 to 1989, her major area of study is American literature and culture in general with emphasis on the African-American novel of the sixties. She devoted many years of research on the Afro-American novelist William Melvin Kelley and produced a major study on this author. Professor Sy is one of the founders of the efforts to incorporate the teaching of American literature and civilization within the English Department of the University of Dakar. She is also the co-founder of the Annual Colloquium on American Studies jointly organized by the USIS and the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Dakar. She is currently active in several international associations in various areas: the Sorbonne Literary Circle, the Black Expressive Culture Studies Association of W.Paterson University in New Jersey, the West-African Research Association, the National Association for Islamic Solidarity (ASI), the Senegalese Association of Women in Higher Education, and others. She is the author of several articles related to her field and to other areas she shows interest in, such as religion and society, women in Islam, etc. Since 1991, she has been appointed Director of the Institute of Applied Languages of the University of Dakar, an institution of Advanced Languages (ILEA). As head of this school which receives students from various African countries (Senegal, Mali, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Guinea Bissau Comores and Gabon), she has managed to achieve the professional and academic exposure to American and European-based language centers designed to link advanced language training and applied business requirements and needs. In an environment where language graduates were remaining jobless, Professor Sy has managed to cooperate with the business community by associating them in the designing of the curriculum and in the transformation of the teaching methods. In doing so, she has been successful in resolving the issue of unemployment of the language graduates of ILEA. EDUCATION: Doctorat d’Etat in American Literature (a Post Doctoral Degree in French Universities), University of Sorbonne, Paris III, France, 1989 PhD in African Literature (Doctorat de 3ème Cycle), University of Sorbonne, Paris III, France, 1977 CAPES (a special teaching degree), University of Sorbonne, Paris III, France, 1976 Master’s Degree in English, University of Sorbonne, Paris III, France, 1971 Licence d’Anglais, University of Sorbonne, Paris III, France, 1970 Bachelor of Arts in English, University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), 1968 Baccalaureat (série A) Lycée Van Vollenhoven, Dakar, Senegal, 1966. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: From 1977 to 1978: Assistant Professor of English, University of Sorbonne Paris III,. The work focussed on teaching basic English to first year students From 1978 to 1980: Assistant Professor of English, University of Dakar. The work focussed on teaching basic English and the techniques of translation. From 1980 to 1989: Associate Professor of English. The focus was on African and Afro-American literature and civilization. From 1989 to the present : Director of the Institute of Foreign Languages, University of Dakar. Since 1998: Full Professor with Tenure, in charge of the Chair of American Studies at the English Department of the University of Dakar. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES - HONOURS Fulbright Research Fellow at Howard University, Washington DC (June-October 1981). During that period, the main activity consisted in conducting an intensive research program on Afro-American novelist William Melvin Kelley. The immediate outcome was an article entitled “Dream and Language in WM Kelley’s Dunfords Travels Everywheres”. The article was published in America, by the CLA Journal of Moorhouse College in Atlanta. Fulbright Visiting Professor at Tuskegee University in Alabama (Summer 1986). While pursuing research to complete the study o Kelley, the work consisted in lecturing on African literature and traditions to final year students. Visiting Professor at the University of Portsmouth (United Kingdom) (February-March 1991). The work centered on discovering the various strategies for language centers management (need analysis, curriculum design, teaching methodologies, human resource management, etc.). Visiting scholar at the Universities of Salford, Manchester, Reading in the UK : purpose was the same as above stated for Portsmouth (Summer 1992) Scholar in Residence at the Library of Congress, Washington DC (Summer 1994): research were directed towards professional development and consisted in collecting or expanding teaching material for classroom activities back home. The immediate outcome was publication of the article “Violence and Virility in the Contemporary Black Novel in America” Visiting Scholar at the University of Surrey in Guilford (UK) (January-February 1996): a tailor-made training on human resource management was provided and a program of professional development was undergone as well. Member és quality of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Dakar Member of the Regional Committee of the WARA, (West African Research Association) Member of the African American Circle In France, University of Sorbonne, Paris III Member of the Black Expressive Culture Studies Association, William Paterson University, New Jersey (USA) Founding Member of the Annual Colloquium on American Studies (1983). Vice-President of the Club “Nation et Développement” Vice-President of the ASI ( National Association for Islamic Solidarity) President of ASENA (the Senegalese Association for North American Studies) Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Mérite (a national distinction). PUBLICATIONS: 1 – « John Updike face à l’Absurde », Annales de la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, N°10, UCAD, Dakar, 1980. 2 – « Dream and Language in WM Kelley’s Dunfords Travels Everywheres », CLA Journal, Vol.XXV, N°4, Moorhouse College, Atlanta, 1982. 3 – “La Dynamique de la Littérature Américaine”, Actes du Colloque sur les Etudes Américaines, N°1, Dakar, 1983. 4 – « La Religion dans la Littérature Afro-américaine », Actes du Colloque sur les Etudes Américaines, N°3, Dakar, 1985. 5 – « L’Ecole et l’Intégration des Noirs aux Etats-Unis : Mythe ou Réalité ? », Actes du Colloque sur les Etudes Américaines, N°4, Dakar, 1985. 6 – « Violence et Virilité dans le Roman Afro-Américain Contemporain », Bridges, N°6, 1st Semester, Dakar, 1995. 7 – «L’Individu et la Communauté dans The Bluest Eye, Sula, et Song of Solomon de Toni Morisson », The Literary Griot, Vol.9, N°1-2, William Paterson University Press, Wayne, 1997. 8 – «Emerson et le Culte de la Nature », Bridges, N°8, Institut Sénégalo-Britannique, Dakar, 1998. 9 – «Place de la Femme dans l’Islam », Journale de l’ASI, N°27, Mai 1998, Dakar. 10 – « La Professionnalisation des Littéraires », Magazine de l’Université Polytechnique de Yamoussoukro (RCI), Février 1999. Unpublished Dissertations : Le Thème du Nationalisme dans le Roman Ouest Africain Anglophone, Sorbonne, Paris, 1977. William Melvin Kelley : l’Homme et l’œuvre, Sorbonne, Paris, 1989. To be published : L’Univers Romanesque de WM Kelley. For responsible leaders: My lifetime project is to educate new African citizens who could leave peacefully based on the human ideals of tolerance and cultural diversity. The priority is given to the education of the African girls as traditional educators to take care of.
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