Scholar Spotlight: Moussa Seck
“I introduce students to the vast histories and exciting cultural expressions of the French-speaking worlds.”
Moussa Seck
Assistant Professor
Department of World Languages and Culture
I enjoy teaching the French language and francophone studies with a focus on culture.
I study the historical trajectories of the African migrant and the impacts of migration on post-independence African communities, examining the representations of migrant experiences in francophone African cultural productions.
My research offers an important interdisciplinary approach to address a global question that transcends geographies, cultures, and histories: Africa’s mobility. Also, the question of migration and movement in the francophone African context can provide valuable teachings into how to approach migration elsewhere, such as the US.
Why I Do What I Do
As a francophone migrant in the US and an expert in African literature, it is important that I devote my time and expertise to bringing these questions up for a discussion for a greater scope. For me, it is both a professional and personal question.
Currently Working On
The premiere of Migration and the Margin.
This documentary is a prelude to my book project on marginality, migration, and literature in Africa. It addresses the difficult journey of “irregular migration” of African youths to Europe, the marginality of returned Senegalese migrants back into the coastal community of Yarakh, and the government policies to eradicate such a problem.
By Amy Beth Miller