Comparative literature | The Harriet Tubman Institute /research/tubman The Harriet Tubman Institute at ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:35:07 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Azzeddine Tajjiou /research/tubman/profile/azzeddine-tajjiou/ Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:05:53 +0000 /research/tubman/?post_type=profile&p=8490 Azzeddine Tajjiou is a Moroccan researcher, translator, and doctoral candidate in Comparative Postcolonial African Literatures at Mohammed I University. He specializes in African literary studies, focusing on 20th and 21st-century African literature and its global diasporas. His work critically examines cultural identity, colonial legacies, and societal transformation through a multidisciplinary lens, integrating comparative literature, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory. Tajjiou also teaches English as an adjunct assistant faculty member at FPN-Mohammed I University. His academic research has been published in internationally recognized journals, presented at conferences in North America, Europe, and Africa, and complemented by his work as both a translator and creative writer.

Keywords: Postcolonial African Literature, Comparative Literature, Cultural Identity & Diaspora, Social Justice Narratives, Ecocriticism, Colonial Environmental Violence

]]> Winfried Siemerling /research/tubman/profile/winfried-siemerling/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 00:53:32 +0000 /tubmandev/?post_type=profile&p=2006 Winfried Siemerlingis University Research Chair and Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Canada, and
Associate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. He won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for The Black Atlantic
Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (2015; www.blackatlantic.ca;
French translation forthcoming 2022). Earlier books include Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations (coedited), and The New North American Studies: Culture, Writing, and the Politics of Re/Cognition (Routledge 2005,
French translation 2010), He has contributed chapters to The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative
(2014). The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012), and African American Literature in Transition 1750-
2015 (Cambridge UP, 2021). He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2019.

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