Mame-Fatou Niang

Mame-Fatou Niang is Professor of French Studies and the Founder-Director of the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic at Carnegie Mellon University. Her recent research examines Black geographies, Blackness in France and the institutionalization of Black Studies. Niang is the international curator of the Rio de Janeiro Literary Festival (FLUP), and an artist-in-residence at Ateliers Médicis in Paris. She is a member of the Black|France|Noire collective and the co-founder of G-SAP, the Global Network for the Studies of Africans and People of African Descent. Niang lives and works between Paris and Pittsburgh.