Comprised of articles and a monograph currently in progress, my current project accounts for Atlantic slavery and its cultural legacy from a continental African perspective. My work centers on Saint-Louis and Gorée, Senegalese isles that were part of France's early modern empire. These sites experienced legal emancipation and the expansion of French citizenship to residents as a result of the abolition of slavery in 1848. Nevertheless, by the virtue of their location in Africa, these locales languish in obscurity within broader discourses about racialized chattel bondage in the Atlantic World and the Indian Ocean. 

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An extract from my monograph is forthcoming in the peer-reviewed journal Nineteenth Century Studies. Additionally, my article that examines the literary representation of colonial slavery's past in Africa during the pinnacle of the Negritude movement in Postwar Paris is forthcoming in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.