Amadou Fofana
French
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Amadou T. Fofana is a doctoral student in the Department of African Languages and Literature. Amadou
graduated from Universite Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar, and served as a language trainer for Peace Corps-
Senegal for Several years before coming to the United States in 1997. He obtained a Master’s degree at
Michigan State University, and is now completing his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Amadou’s academic interests include language acquisition and pedagogy, language policy, language use
and society, film, literature and culture studies. His dissertation investigates Ousmane Sembene’s film
language.