Ousseynou Sy

Ousseynou Sy earned a Master in English at The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) in 2007 and another Master in Public Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin. He also worked for five years as a Teaching Assistant in the English Department at UT Austin teaching American and World literature. He earned a Ph. D in American literature in Gaston Berger University in Saint-Louis in Senegal. His research interests are African American literature and Post-colonial African literature, and international development and relations. His publications appeared in the Ethnic Third World Journal (E3W Review of Books), The Baines Report: Policy in Perspectives, the Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory. He is the author of Debating the contesting memories of slavery and L’histoire comme source d’inspiration chez Ralph Ellison et Toni Morrison. He is an independent researcher, a distinguished alum of the University of Texas at Austin.