Babacar M'Baye

Dr. Babacar M’Baye is a Professor of English and Pan-African Studies at Kent State University. His research interests vary from Pan-African literatures, cultures, music, films, gender expressions, and sexualities to black Atlantic studies, transnationalism, and postcolonialism. He is the author of Black Cosmopolitanism and Anticolonialism: Pivotal Moments (2017) and The Trickster Comes West: Pan-African Influence in Early Black Diasporan Narratives (2009) and the co-editor of Gender and Sexuality in Senegalese Societies: Critical Perspectives and Methods (2019) and Crossing Traditions: American Popular Music in Local and Global Contexts (2013). He is also the co-editor of Lexington Books’ Critical African Studies in Gender and Sexuality Series.