Michael Janis teaches Literary Theory, West African Novel, Perspectives on the Americas, World Literature, and Composition.  His research interests include African fiction and film, postcolonial theory, literature and philosophy, feminism, Latin American fiction, and Caribbean fiction.  He has served as chair of the World Literature Committee since 2005.  Founder and adviser of the Morehouse African Film Society, as well as a committee member of the W.E.B. Du Bois International House and of the Africa Awareness Week committee, Janis works at promoting an interest in international education on campus.

Education
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, State University of New York, Stony Brook

B.A. in English and Philosophy, Emory University

Selected Publications
Africa after Modernism: Transitions in Literature, Media, and Philosophy (Routledge Press, 2008).

“Africa and Avant-Garde Anthropology: The Psychoanalysis of Exoticism.” Cahiers d’études africaines.  Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales 183 (2006): 567-596. http://etudesafricaines.revues.org/document6038.html.

“Negritude, Mestizaje, Africana Philosophy:  Zapata Olivella and Multiculturalist Pan-Africanism.”  Présence Africaine: Revue culturelle du monde noir/Cultural Review of the Black World 171 (2005):  69-79.

“Cultural Identity in the Era of Multiculturalism and Multimedia.” Globalization and Marginality: Paradoxes of Global and Local Forces.  Eds. Olufemi Vaughan, Marcheta Wright, and Charles Small.  Ibadan, Nigeria: Sefer Press, 2005. 236-77.

“Signatures of Africa in Alejo Carpentier’s America.”  Wadabagei: A Journal of the Caribbean and Its Diaspora 6 (2).  Medgar Evers College (CUNY), Caribbean Diaspora Press (2003): 125-68.

Contact
Brawley Hall 112
ext. 3610
mjanis@morehouse.edu