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Karim Traore
Associate Professor
Department of Comparative Literature
231 Joe Brown Hall
(706) 542-8123
ktraore@uga.edu

Education: Ph.D. - University of Saarbrucken & University of Bayreuth

Current Research Interests: African literatures and cinema, Literary and Cognitive anthropology (myths and local knowledge), Popular Culture in Africa

Courses Taught: World Literature II, Women and African Literature, Myth in Culture, African Literature I, African Languages and Folklore, African Cinema and Francophone/Lusophone Literature

Regional Interests: Entire Continent, especially the Mande of Sahelian West Africa [Guinea, Senegal, Mali, and Burkina Faso]

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