Robert CANCEL - Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison) Primary Office: LIT 428 Primary Phone: (858) 534-3986 (ANS MACHINE) Email: rcancel@ucsd.edu Director: Third Word Studies Program Associate Professor of African and Comparative Literature: Oral Literature; Modern African Literature and Film; Caribbean Literature. Selected Publications: "Literary Criticism as Social Philippic and Personal Exorcism: Ngg wa Thiong'o's Critical Writings," World Literature Today, 59.1 (1985). "Broadcasting Oral Traditions: The 'Logic' of Narrative Variants--The Problem of 'Message,'" African Studies Review (Special Humanities Issue), 29.1 (1986): 60-70, co-edited with Bennetta Jules-Rosette. "Elements of Oral Epic in Ousmane Sembene's Ceddo," A Current Bibliography of African Affairs, 18.1 (1986): 3-19. "Three African (Oral) Narrative Versions: Text, Tradition and Performance," The American Journal of Semiotics, 6.1 (1988-89): 85-109. Allegorical Speculation in an Oral Society: The Tabwa Narrative Tradition, Series in Modern Philology, 122. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. "Literature in African Languages: Perspectives on Culture and Identity," A History of Twentieth-Century African Literature, ed. Oyekan Owomoyela. London and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993: 285-310. "Nadine Gordimer Meets Ngg wa Thiong'o: Text into Film in 'Oral History,'" Research in African Literature, 26.3 (1995): 38-48. "Bemba History, Religious Systems and Rituals," "Oral Performance and Literature," "Oral Narrative," "Oral Traditions," and "Dynamics of Oral Performance," Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy, ed. V.Y. Mudimbe. Forthcoming, New York: Garland Publishing. "Ngg wa Thiong'o," Modern African Writers, ed. Brian Cox. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1997: 537-556. "'Whose Africa is it, Anyway?' Or, What Exactly is Skip Gates Signifyin'?" "First Word" Review Essay, African Arts, 33.2: 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 86-88, 2000. Review of South African Fiction After Apartheid, a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies 46.1 (2000), in Research in African Literatures 33.1 (2002): 182-83. "Gestures of Belonging and Claiming Birth Rights: Short Stories by Bessie Head and Ama Ata Aidoo." Critical Perspectives on Bessie Head, Huma Ibrahim, ed. Africa World Press, 2002. "'Come Back South Africa': Cinematic Representations of Apartheid over Three Eras of Resistance." A chapter in Focus on African Film, edited by Francoise Pfaff, forthcoming from Indiana University Press.