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Author of On Black BD and Transcolonial Power: https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215821.html
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· Feb 12
🤩✨I got my copy of On Black BD & Transcolonial Power! Get yours too ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... my deepest thanks to everyone at @ohiostatepress.bsky.social esp the series editors @seehatfield.bsky.social & @rawreader.bsky.social 🩵
I'm thrilled to be participating in an exciting comics colloquium next month hosted by Dr. Rocío Pichon-Rivière at UC Irvine!
October 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I'm thrilled to be participating in an exciting comics colloquium next month hosted by Dr. Rocío Pichon-Rivière at UC Irvine!
I'll be presenting my work at Penn State on Monday for anyone in the region 😊 share.google/jTIBy9JmFcyg...
Michelle Bumatay presents: “On Black Bandes Dessinées: Picturing Francophone Africa and the Indian Ocean” - Department of French and Francophone Studies
Assistant professor of French and French graduate adviser at Florida State University, Michelle Bumatay, (Ph.D., UCLA) specializes in African Francophone literature and visual culture as well as conte...
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October 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'll be presenting my work at Penn State on Monday for anyone in the region 😊 share.google/jTIBy9JmFcyg...
🤩⭐I got my copy of this incredible volume edited by Jen Boum Make and Charly Verstraet w/ a foreword by Jessica Oublié - I'm thrilled to be in such great company!🔥🎉
August 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
🤩⭐I got my copy of this incredible volume edited by Jen Boum Make and Charly Verstraet w/ a foreword by Jessica Oublié - I'm thrilled to be in such great company!🔥🎉
I can't wait to welcome Gaspard Njock & Annick Kamgang for the 6th Global Africas event hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Comics and the Art of Investigation. For more info: winthropking.fsu.edu/event/6th-gl...
August 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I can't wait to welcome Gaspard Njock & Annick Kamgang for the 6th Global Africas event hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies: Comics and the Art of Investigation. For more info: winthropking.fsu.edu/event/6th-gl...
🤩Congratulations to Jennifer Boum Make on her new book "Decolonial Care" 🎉What an important and timely intervention - I can't wait to get my copy! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/templeton-pr...
Decolonial Care
Decolonial Care examines the relationship between the legacies of colonialism and the dynamics of caregiving that have emerged from the French Caribbean. Thr...
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July 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
🤩Congratulations to Jennifer Boum Make on her new book "Decolonial Care" 🎉What an important and timely intervention - I can't wait to get my copy! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/templeton-pr...
Full article: Y a-t-il une bande dessinée africaine ? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Un grand merci à Pedro Monaville pour ce compte-rendu nuancé de mon livre "On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power" @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
Y-a-t-il une bande dessinée africaine ?
Published in Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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July 8, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Full article: Y a-t-il une bande dessinée africaine ? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Un grand merci à Pedro Monaville pour ce compte-rendu nuancé de mon livre "On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power" @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
Exciting news! 1) Drawing (in) the Feminine was nominated for a Comics Studies Society award *and* an Eisner award and 2) the Edinburgh UP page is live for Graphic Narratives of Resistance!🤩🤩 Check it out: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-graphic...
May 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Exciting news! 1) Drawing (in) the Feminine was nominated for a Comics Studies Society award *and* an Eisner award and 2) the Edinburgh UP page is live for Graphic Narratives of Resistance!🤩🤩 Check it out: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-graphic...
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DEVELOPING: Active shooter reported at Florida State University; at least four people hospitalized, local hospital says; FSU urges students to seek shelter.
Live Updates: Active shooter reported at Florida State University; at least four hospitalized
Active shooter reported at Florida State
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April 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
DEVELOPING: Active shooter reported at Florida State University; at least four people hospitalized, local hospital says; FSU urges students to seek shelter.
For those in SoCal, I'll be talking about my book at Pomona College 💙 (4/25) and UCLA (4/28) 🩵💛 - I hope to see some of you there! ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
For those in SoCal, I'll be talking about my book at Pomona College 💙 (4/25) and UCLA (4/28) 🩵💛 - I hope to see some of you there! ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... @ohiostatepress.bsky.social
What a gift to spend two days with Felwine Sarr during the Afrotopias conference! ✨🌟
April 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What a gift to spend two days with Felwine Sarr during the Afrotopias conference! ✨🌟
I'm *so* looking forward to the 5th Global Africas event next week: the Afrotopias Conference featuring Felwine Sarr! For more info & the program: winthropking.fsu.edu/event/5th-gl...
March 31, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I'm *so* looking forward to the 5th Global Africas event next week: the Afrotopias Conference featuring Felwine Sarr! For more info & the program: winthropking.fsu.edu/event/5th-gl...
I'm looking forward to participating in this workshop on comics & language classes at Pomona College and to the book talk I'll be giving at UCLA the following week!💙💛
March 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I'm looking forward to participating in this workshop on comics & language classes at Pomona College and to the book talk I'll be giving at UCLA the following week!💙💛
I can't wait to welcome director Thierno Souleymane Diallo to campus this weekend for a screening & Q&A of his documentary "The Cemetery of Cinema"!🤩
March 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I can't wait to welcome director Thierno Souleymane Diallo to campus this weekend for a screening & Q&A of his documentary "The Cemetery of Cinema"!🤩
Can't wait to discuss my book with everyone at UMass Lowell - un grand merci à Kristen Stern!
March 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Can't wait to discuss my book with everyone at UMass Lowell - un grand merci à Kristen Stern!
🤩 Thrilled to have Jagravi Dave profile my book on @brittlepaper.bsky.social - brittlepaper.com/2025/02/comb...
Combatting Racial Stereotypes Through Comics: On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power by Michelle Bumatay
On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power by Michelle Bumatay is the first book in English to explore the work of Black francophone artists of bandes desinées and their responses to colonial l...
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February 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🤩 Thrilled to have Jagravi Dave profile my book on @brittlepaper.bsky.social - brittlepaper.com/2025/02/comb...
Can't wait for the Tout-Monde Foundation & Winthrop-King Institute Homo Sargassum symposium at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts & I'm honored to participate with Mora Beauchamp-Byrd & Henri Tauliaut to discuss comics, art, and the environment!🤩 www.tout-monde-foundation.org/copy-of-homo...
February 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Can't wait for the Tout-Monde Foundation & Winthrop-King Institute Homo Sargassum symposium at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts & I'm honored to participate with Mora Beauchamp-Byrd & Henri Tauliaut to discuss comics, art, and the environment!🤩 www.tout-monde-foundation.org/copy-of-homo...
🤩✨I got my copy of On Black BD & Transcolonial Power! Get yours too ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... my deepest thanks to everyone at @ohiostatepress.bsky.social esp the series editors @seehatfield.bsky.social & @rawreader.bsky.social 🩵
February 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🤩✨I got my copy of On Black BD & Transcolonial Power! Get yours too ohiostatepress.org/books/titles... my deepest thanks to everyone at @ohiostatepress.bsky.social esp the series editors @seehatfield.bsky.social & @rawreader.bsky.social 🩵
The new issue of Imaginaries is up & its on bandes dessinées including Jessica Oublié's #tropiquestoxiques & Marcelino Truong's 40 Men and 12 Rifles h-france.net/imaginaries/
February 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The new issue of Imaginaries is up & its on bandes dessinées including Jessica Oublié's #tropiquestoxiques & Marcelino Truong's 40 Men and 12 Rifles h-france.net/imaginaries/
📢 The final draft of the 5th Global Africas: Afrotopias Conference program is live: winthropking.fsu.edu/5th-global-a... I'm looking forward to what promises to be a rich engagement with and expansion on Felwine Sarr's #Afrotopia 🤩
February 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
📢 The final draft of the 5th Global Africas: Afrotopias Conference program is live: winthropking.fsu.edu/5th-global-a... I'm looking forward to what promises to be a rich engagement with and expansion on Felwine Sarr's #Afrotopia 🤩
My students' collaborative comments on the Sarr-Savoy report are clear-sighted & give me hope for whatever comes next!
January 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
My students' collaborative comments on the Sarr-Savoy report are clear-sighted & give me hope for whatever comes next!
Finalizing my "Francophone Afrotopias" seminar syllabus & I can't wait to share Bodys Isek Kingelez's art (at the Chicago Art Institute now!) & screen Mati Diop's "Dahomey" in preparation for Felwine Sarr's keynote during the 5th Global Africas event, the "Afrotopias" conference! 🤩
January 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Finalizing my "Francophone Afrotopias" seminar syllabus & I can't wait to share Bodys Isek Kingelez's art (at the Chicago Art Institute now!) & screen Mati Diop's "Dahomey" in preparation for Felwine Sarr's keynote during the 5th Global Africas event, the "Afrotopias" conference! 🤩
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Announcing our spring 2025 season! Review copies and course adoption requests: osup_publicity@osu.edu
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The Ohio State University Press: Spring 2025 Catalog
The Spring 2025 catalog of the Ohio State University Press, with new titles in creative nonfiction, critical adoption studies, cultural studies, rhetoric and communication, and more.
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December 23, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Announcing our spring 2025 season! Review copies and course adoption requests: osup_publicity@osu.edu
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Tb to the 67th ASA meeting where I ran into Duncan Yoon & my incredible co-panelists Naminata Diabaté, Aliko Songolo, Hilary Jones, & Ousseina Alidou (not pictured). Looking forward to more discussions following the "Global Black French Studies: Exploring Global Histories &Thought" panel!
January 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Tb to the 67th ASA meeting where I ran into Duncan Yoon & my incredible co-panelists Naminata Diabaté, Aliko Songolo, Hilary Jones, & Ousseina Alidou (not pictured). Looking forward to more discussions following the "Global Black French Studies: Exploring Global Histories &Thought" panel!
Looking forward to the 67th ASA & participating in the roundtable "Global Black French Studies: Exploring Global Histoires and Thought" w/ Aliko Songolo, Naminata Diabate, Ousseina Alidou, & Hilary Jones! A très bientôt!
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December 10, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Looking forward to the 67th ASA & participating in the roundtable "Global Black French Studies: Exploring Global Histoires and Thought" w/ Aliko Songolo, Naminata Diabate, Ousseina Alidou, & Hilary Jones! A très bientôt!
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Final proofs! I'm looking forward to sharing this with everyone!🤩
November 27, 2024 at 7:16 PM
Final proofs! I'm looking forward to sharing this with everyone!🤩