
Education: Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles 1969
b.lindfors@mail.utexas.edu
Research Interests: African Literatures, Third World Literatures, Commonwealth Literatures, Folklore Popular Literature, Comparative Literature, Bibliography
Publications: Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius ( Boydell & Brewer, LTD 2007)
The Blind Men and the Elephant, and Other Essays in Biographical Criticism (Africa World Press, 1999)
Africans on Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Business, Editor (Indiana University Press, 1999)
Conversations with Chinua Achebe, Editor (University Press of Mississippi, 1997)
Loaded Vehicles: Studies in African Literary Media (Africa World Press, 1996)
Long Drums and Canons: Teaching and Researching African Literatures (African World Press, 1995)
Comparative Approaches to African Literatures (Rodopi, 1994)
Popular Literatures in Africa (Rodopi, 1991)