I am a Senegalese-American poet, translator, researcher, and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. I came to America when I was 11 years-old. I currently live in St. Louis, but my permanent home is Senegal, where my extended family remains, and NYC. My research and teaching interests center on the links between the various forms of postcolonial studies, theory and practice, with a particular focus on debates about postcolonial translation theory and Négritude in Anglophone and Francophone cultures. Besides English & French, I am fluent in Wolof, Mending, and Diola and I call on these languages in my writing.