Mouhamédoul Niang was promoted to professor of French and Francophone studies at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Dr. Niang joined Colby’s faculty in 2009. He is a scholar and writer who studies representations of gender, body, and space in Francophone African cinema and literature. His work focuses on narratives of identities and ideologies, as well as innovative literary aesthetics, the African couple, and alternative modernities.
Professor Niang is a graduate of the Universite Gaston Berger in Senegal, where he majored in English language and literature. He holds a master’s degree in English language and literature from East Tennessee State University and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in French and Francophone studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
SOURCE: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, July 17, 2026.