P.h.D.
Boston University
2012
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Faculty
Faculty
Ariane Ngabeu, Ph.D ( she/ her)
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Department/Office
- World Languages & Cultures
School/College
- College of Arts & Sciences
Biography
Dr. Ariane Ngabeu is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Howard University. She holds degrees from the University of Yaoundé I and Boston University, where she was a five-year recipient of the prestigious Presidential Fellowship. Dr. Ngabeu brings extensive academic, intercultural, and administrative experience to her teaching and research.
From 2012 to 2023, she served as the inaugural Resident Director of the Middlebury College School Abroad in Cameroon, where she designed and led immersive study abroad programs for undergraduate and graduate students from across the United States. Her work emphasized intensive French and Medumba language acquisition, cultural immersion, and meaningful engagement with local communities.
Dr. Ngabeu’s scholarly interests include Francophone Studies, Gender Studies, culture and identity, history and memory, tradition and modernity, migrant narratives, postcolonial and feminist theories, and digital media, including film, television series, visual arts, and artificial intelligence. She is the author of Les Enjeux de la modernité dans le roman africain au féminin (2021) and a contributor to Le Dictionnaire universel des femmes créatrices (2013). Her publications include numerous essays and book chapters examining gender and migration, postcolonial identities, memory, and sociocultural transformation in African and diasporic contexts.
Her current research focuses on digital cinema and AI, video films, and television series as agents of social critique and social transformation in contemporary Cameroon.
Education & Expertise
Education
D.E.A
Yaoundé I
2007
MA
Yaoundé I
2004
BA
Yaoundé I
2001
Expertise
Gender Issues in Francophone Africa
Culture and Identity
Postcolonial Theory
Digital Cinema in Francophone Africa
Academics
Academics
FREN 050- Oral Expression I, Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
FREN 051- Oral Expression II, Spring 2024.
FREN 077- Advanced Grammar and Composition, Spring 2024
FREN 002- Elementary French 2, Fall 2023, 2024.
FREN 040- Intensive Grammar Review, Fall 2023, Fall 2024.
IS: Fren Lang-Lit, Fall 2023
FREN 001- Beginner Level, Spring 2025.
FREN 014 -Introduction to Humanities, Fall 2024.
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
Les Enjeux de la modernité dans le roman africain au féminin. Werewere Liking, Angèle Rawiri et Ken Bugul
Publications and Presentations
Publications and Presentations
''Violence conjugale et figures féminines chez Djaïli Amadou Amal'' [ Domestic Violence and Female Figures in Djaïli Amadou Amal’s Works]. Le rayonnement des littérature africaines : 30 ans de création et de pensée. Cinétismes, 2024.
Femme et reconstruction chez Werewere Liking : Elle sera de jaspe et de corail in Werewere-Liking : Le Ki-Yi Mbock et la Renaissance africaine, edited by Joseph Epoka Mwantuali, Ifrikiya, 2021.
Celles qui attendent de Fatou de Diome et la mise en récit des enjeux migratoires en Afrique postcoloniale in Les Cahiers du Grathel. Revue scientifique du Groupe de Recherche en Analyses et Théories et Littéraires, Université Félix Houphouët Boigny,2020
Formes et significations de l’Autre dans le roman de Mongo Beti in Roman africain et idéologie : l’identité dans le jeu scripturaire de Mongo Beti, edited by Adama Samake, Complicités, 2019.
Femme et subalternité chez Mongo Beti: une lecture de Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba et de Mission terminée in La femme : perception, représentations et significations dans l’écriture de Mongo Beti, edited by Adama Samake, Complicités, 2018.
Violence et conflits des altérités chez Ken Bugul et Werewere Liking in JALA (Journal of African Literature Association), 2015, Volume 9.
Entre ici et là-bas: Le Baobab fou de Ken Bugul et La Transe des insoumis de Malika Mokeddem in Identités nationales, postcoloniales ou contemporaines en Afrique. Réflexion en hommage aux 50 ans de l’union africaine, edited by R. Mondoué & Nganguem, 2013
Werewere Liking’s The Amputated Memory: Between Past and Present. Syllabus Review, Human and Social Science Series, 2013, Volume 4
Mémoire d'immigré et intégration chez Tahar Ben Jelloun et Faïza Guène in Exils et migrations postcoloniales : de l’urgence de départ à la nécessité de retour-Mélanges offerts à Ambroise Kom, edited by Pierre Fandio & Tchumkam Hervé, Ifrikya, 2011.
''Brigitte Tsobgny ''; ''Delphine Zanga Tsogo ''; ''Evelyne Mpoundi Ngolle ''; ''Lydie Dooh Bunya''; ''Marie-Claire Matip''; ''Marie-Thérèse Assiga Ahanda''; ''Philomène Basseck''; ''Rabiatou Njoya''; ''Thérèse Kuoh Moukoury'' in Le Dictionnaire u, 2013.
Le Baobab fou de Ken Bugul ou la déconstruction de la modernité au féminin. Damá Nínao. Revue interdisciplinaire Lettres, Arts et Sciences Humaines. Numéro 15, 2024, pp. 102-119.
Edgard Sankara. Récits de vie au Burkina Faso : enjeux, rhétorique Réception [Life Stories in Burkina Faso: Issues, Rhetoric, and Reception]. Revue d’ Études Africaines, numéro 4, December 2024.
''Femme et reconstruction chez Werewere Liking : Elle sera de Jaspe et de corial » [Woman and Reconstruction in Werewere Liking: Elle sera de jaspe et de corail.]. Werewere Liking : Le Ki-Yi Mbock et la Renaissance africaine. Ifrikiya, 2021, pp. 150-160.
« Fondements et mutations historiques des littératures africaines », L'industrie du livre en Afrique : tendances, défis & opportunités de croissance. UNESCO, 2025, pp. 243-249. https://doi.org/10.58337/SRUH6078
“Migration, Water, and the Human Condition in Laurent Gaudé’s Eldorado”. Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics Vol. 48, No. 3, Autumn, Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute, India, 2025, pp. 65-73.
In Eldorado, Laurent Gaudé transforms the Mediterranean into a space where personal desire and collective crisis intersect. Through Soleiman, a young African migrant pursuing dignity, and Salvatore Piracci, an Italian coast guard consumed by moral doubt, the novel portrays migration as both human struggle and political dilemma. Rejecting abstraction, Gaudé foregrounds the voices, silences, and bodies of those in motion, exposing the violence of borders and the fragility of resilience. This article, drawing on postcolonial theory and migration studies, argues that Eldorado compels us to confront the ethical stakes of displacement while restoring humanity to its narratives.
Gender-Based Violence in Cameroon’s Digital Cinema” in Rocky Mountain Review, Spring 2025, Volume 79, number 1, pp. 23-41.
Blaise Ntedju, a Cameroonian digital filmmaker and creator of online streaming platforms, addresses gender-based violence in 12 Cas(2024), a series depicting twelve cases of rape. This research examines the final case, Secret mortel, Cas 12(Deadly Secret, Case 12), exploring how digital visual art intersects with societal issues in Cameroon. By incorporating everyday realities into his narratives, Ntedju highlights challenges such as family conflicts, betrayal, incest, and rape-induced pregnancies.