(Jan. 3, 2011) Congratulations to Christopher Hogarth, an assistant professor in Wagner College’s English department, who has been named to the executive board of the Northeast Modern Language Association (or NeMLA), one of the six regional branches of the Modern Language Association. Dr. Hogarth is NeMLA’s new director of comparative literatures.
Hogarth specializes in comparative and post-colonial literature (especially French, Italian and Senegalese). At Wagner College, he teaches courses in world literature, postcolonial literature, African literature, literary theory and comparative literature. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Bath (U.K.) and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University with a dissertation comparing Senegalese writing in French and Italian. He has a strong interest in autobiography and has published numerous articles on Senegalese writers, including Ken Bugul and Fatou Diome, as well as Italophone literature.
Hogarth has edited two books with his wife, Wagner College modern languages professor Natalie Edwards: “Gender and Displacement: ‘Home’ in Contemporary Francophone Women’s Autobiography,” published in 2008, and last summer’s “This ‘Self’ Which Is Not One: Women’s Life Writing in French.” He is currently completing a book entitled “Maladies of Migration in the Senegalese Novel.”
Dr. Hogarth joins Dr. Edwards on the NeMLA board. Edwards, who was NeMLA’s director of French for three years, is currently second vice president and will become president of NeMLA in 2013.
The Northeast Modern Language Association is a scholarly organization for professionals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other modern languages. Most members are professors and students of English and other modern languages at colleges and universities in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Canada’s Maritime provinces.
Hogarth joins NeMLA board
January 3, 2011
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