“The kingdom
of my childhood was surrounded by my native African culture as well as
by the tradition of French education. My journey from my homeland(Ivory
Coast) into the Americas (Canada, the Caribbean and the USA) enriches
my personal life experience not only through pressures and challenges
I face in exile, but also through encounters with people and cultures
of many tastes and differences. Therefore from the beginning to today,
the geography of my memory has always been shaped by a specific process
of socio-cultural relations and negotiations in which I have been defining
my pluralistic identity“. Dr. Kanate Dahouda, French
and Francophone Studies Department
Kanaté Dahouda received a Ph.D. in Francophone Literatures (Quebec-Antilles)
from l'Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. His doctoral
dissertation is a comparative study on Dynamics of identity in the works
of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Paul Chamberland (Quebec).
In Spring 2001, Dr. Dahouda joined Hobart and William Smith Colleges to
teach French and Francophone Studies at the Modern Languages Department.
Before coming to Hobart and William Smith Colleges, he taught Francophonie
et regionalisme, and French at various levels at Language Studies
Canada in Montreal.
Outside of teaching, Professor Dahouda has given lectures on various aspects of Contemporary issues in French Francophone literatures, cultures and societies. Professor Dahouda’s special interests include French Canadian literature and society, Francophone African and Caribbean literature and culture. (As a scholar, he has been variously co-author and contributor to volumes, journals and reviews, such as Vivre l'École (Abidjan, Ivory Coast) Québec français, Dictionnaire des Oeuvres Littéraires du Québec (VII) (Quebec, Canada), Présence francophone (USA), Francofonia (Spain), International Journal of Canadian Studies (Ottawa, Canada), Tangence (Quebec, Canada), Neohelicon (Hungary).
Kanate Dahouda
dahouda@hws.edu
Office : 304 Smith Hall
Phone : (315) 781-3799
Fax : (315)-781-3288
