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Ariane Ngabeu
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Ariane Ngabeu, Ph.D (she/ her)

Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies

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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. A graduate of the University of Yaoundé I and Boston University—where she was a five-year recipient of the prestigious Presidential Fellowship—Dr. Ngabeu brings a wealth of academic and intercultural 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 led immersive study programs for undergraduate and graduate students from across the United States, focusing on French and Medumba language learning and cultural exchange.
Her scholarly interests span African literature and cinema, gender studies, postcolonial theory, digital media, and memory studies. 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 published work includes numerous essays and book chapters exploring themes such as gender and migration, cultural identity, tradition and modernity, and the role of memory in postcolonial narratives.
Dr. Ngabeu’s current research investigates digital cinema, video films, and television series as agents of social transformation in contemporary Cameroon.

Education & Expertise

Education

P.h.D.


Boston University
2012

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

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.