Patrice Nganang — Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION
1998 Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Johan Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
1992 Maîtrise ( M.A.), University of Yaoundé (Cameroon)/University of Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
1992 Licence d'Allemand, University of Yaoundé.
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EMPLOYMENT
2007-Present, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Assistant Professor of Literary Theory
July 2006 - Present, Vassar College, Randolph Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor of German and Africana Studies
July 2000 - 2007, Shippensburg University, Associate Professor of French and German, Department of Modern Languages
1999 - 2000, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany), Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Asian and African Studies
1997-1999, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main (Germany), Lecturer, Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies; Department of German Studies
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BOOK AWARDS
Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Afrique Noire for the Novel temps de chien, 2003
Shortlisted for the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie for Temps de chien, 2002
Prix Marguerite Yourcenar ($10,000), for francophone writers living in the USA, for Temps de Chien, 2001
Prix CREPLA for 'Historie d'un enfant Quatr Z'yeux', 1986
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EDUCATION
1998 Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Johan Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
1992 Maîtrise ( M.A.), University of Yaoundé (Cameroon)/University of Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
1992 Licence d'Allemand, University of Yaoundé.
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EMPLOYMENT
2007-Present, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, Assistant Professor of Literary Theory
July 2006 - Present, Vassar College, Randolph Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor of German and Africana Studies
July 2000 - 2007, Shippensburg University, Associate Professor of French and German, Department of Modern Languages
1999 - 2000, Humboldt University, Berlin (Germany), Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute for Asian and African Studies
1997-1999, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main (Germany), Lecturer, Department of Theater, Film and Media Studies; Department of German Studies
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BOOK AWARDS
Grand Prix Littéraire de l'Afrique Noire for the Novel temps de chien, 2003
Shortlisted for the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie for Temps de chien, 2002
Prix Marguerite Yourcenar ($10,000), for francophone writers living in the USA, for Temps de Chien, 2001
Prix CREPLA for 'Historie d'un enfant Quatr Z'yeux', 1986

