Mouhamedoul A Niang is from Thies, a city that entered in literary history thanks to Ousmane Sembene's God Bits of Wood. He hold a PhD in French and Francophone studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009), a Bachelor's degree (English) from Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis, Senegal and a Masters' degree (English) from East Tennessee State University. He is an Assistant Professor of French, francophone literature and African cinema at Colby College. His research interests include but are not limited to discourses of identities, space, the body, the detective novel, nationalism, occultism, marronage, transculturation, translation, and postcolonial theories in general.