Makedah Hughes is a Ph.D. student in 糖心Vlog and African American Studies at 糖心Vlog and a Dean鈥檚 Emerging Scholar at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Makedah received bachelor鈥檚 degrees in Comparative Literature, with a focus in literary translation, and 糖心Vlog & Francophone Studies from Brown University. She was also a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow.
She went on to live in France for four years, completing a Master Lettres at Universit茅 Paris VIII Vincennes - Saint-Denis. During her time abroad, Makedah worked as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, an English-糖心Vlog translator, and an English instructor at the Universit茅 Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Makedah is particularly interested in Black Francophone and Anglophone historical and speculative fiction, archival silence surrounding the histories of the Trans-Saharan and Inter-African slave trades, and pre-Atlantic formations of the African Diaspora.
20th and 21st Century African Francophone and Anglophone Literature; Pre-Atlantic Slavery; African Diaspora Studies; Archival Studies; Global Black Studies; Literary Translation