Omar Dieng
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
Africana Studies
Biography
Dr. Dieng earned his master’s and Ph.D. degrees at The Ohio State University in African American and African Studies after completing a master’s degree in African and postcolonial Studies at Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal. His doctoral dissertation “Race, Cultural and National Identity in the Diaspora: Trajectories of Black Subjectivities,” offers a comparative study of Black subjectivities in Europe with a particular focus on France and Britain. Before joining the College of Wooster, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Case Western Reserve University in Humanities in Leadership and Learning Series program.Dr. Dieng’s teaching and research interests include cultural relations between Africa, Europe, and America with a focus on race theory, cultural studies, identity politics, citizenship, and migration in literature, philosophy, and film.
Selected Publications & Presentations
Articles
- “Afro-European Pan-Africanism: A Twenty-first Century Black Europeans’ Mobilizations.” Journal of African American Studies, October 28, 2022.
- “The Politics of Blackness and Citizenship in Post-1980s France.” Humanities Bulletin, January 2023.
- “Blackness/Africanness, Cultural Nationalism, and Belonging in Post-1980s Afro-European Literature,” Research in African Literatures, (submitted, under review)
Review Articles
- Review: Diaspora & Returns in Fiction by Ernest N. Emenyonu, Research in African Literatures, (49.2). October 2018.
- Review: Hope Draped in Black, Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress by Joseph R. Winters, Spectrum, (6.1). November 2017.
M.A. Thesis
- “The Relation between Race and the State: The Politics of Resistance of the Post-colonial African Diaspora in France.” Ohiolink, Spring 2018.
Presentations
- “Blackness/Africanness, Cultural Nationalism, and Belonging in Post-1980s Afro-European Literature,”African Literature Association, University of Knoxville , Tennessee, May 24-27, 2023.
- “Blackness/Africanness, Cultural Nationalism, and Belonging in Post-1980s Afro-European Literature,” Northeast Modern Language Association, Niagara Falls New York, March 23-26, 2023.
- “(De)constructing Existence, (Re)imagining Identities, Cultures, and Histories.” Graduate Fellows Roundtable, Society of Fellows’ Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Grant, The Ohio State University, Fall 2021-Spring 2022,
- “Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Blackness in Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazaar.” African Literature Association conference in Columbus, 2019.
- “Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Blackness in Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazaar.” Encountering the Other conference at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2018.
- “Humanitarianism and Anti-Blackness.” The 3rd International Symposium of the Dakar Institute of African Studies in Dakar, Senegal, 2017