Faculty

Lindfors, Bernth
Professor Emeritus

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)