France-Florida Research Institute

Mame Fatou Niang is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on contemporary France, Sub-Saharan Africa, Postcolonial and Transnational Studies, Media, and Urban Planning. She is the author of Identités Françaises (Brill 2019) which examines the development of Afro-French identities and the works of second- and third-generation female …

Dialogue around “Les Belles au bois dormant” with Dr. Charlotte Trinquet du Lys (University of Central Florida) and Dr. Rori Bloom (University of Florida) Dialogue in French with discussion in French and/or English Taking inspiration from Charles Perrault’s late seventeenth-century fairy tale, “La Belle au Bois dormant,” Drs. Trinquet and Bloom will explore several versions …

Zora Neale Hurston’s 1938 book, Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica, recounts her two years of fieldwork research on African-derived religions and other cultural practices in the Caribbean.  Though it has received plenty of attention since being republished in 1990, Tell My Horse is still Hurston’s most complicated, least understood book. …