Publications

• “The Feminine Plural in Africa and the Diaspora: Quartets of Women in Aya de Yopougon and La vie d’Ébène Duta.” Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women, edited by Margaret C. Flinn. The Ohio State University Press, 2024, 124-141.


• “Comics as commemoration? The tirailleurs sénégalais and World War I.” Francosphères, vol. 10, no. 1, 2021, pp. 63-77.


• “BD Reportage or Exotic Travel Journal? L’Afrique de papa and the Intermedial Gaze.” Études francophones, vol. 32, 2020, pp. 13-35.


• “Picturing the (Silent) History of Immigration in France and in French Bandes Dessinées.” Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis, ed. Nhora Serrano, Routledge, 2019, pp. 149-161.


• “African Bande Dessinée Festivals & Competitions: Participation, Patronage, and Performance.” Research in African Literatures. vol. 50, no. 2, 2019, pp. 35-48.


• Invited Round Table Organizer, “Decolonising the Arts: Museums & Restitution,” at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, Jan. 25, 2019.


• Bumatay, Michelle, and Joseph L. Underwood. “Focus: Ibrahima Dieye.” The View From Here: Contemporary Perspectives From Senegal, edited by Joseph L. Underwood, Joseph L. Underwood and the Kent State School of Art Collection & Galleries, 2018, pp. 58-60.


• “Focus: Camara Guèye.” The View From Here: Contemporary Perspectives From Senegal, edited by Joseph L. Underwood, Joseph L. Underwood and the Kent State School of Art Collection & Galleries, 2018, pp. 49-53.


• “Review of La fabrique des classiques africains: Écrivains d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone (1960-2012) by Claire Ducournau.” H-France Review. vol. 18, no. 94, 2018.


• “Sub-Saharan African Francophone Comics,” encyclopedia entry for The Planetary Republic of Comics, ed. Frederick Luis Aldama (web, 2018).


• “Notre histoire and Madame Livingstone: Travels in Time.” Contemporary French Civilization. vol. 42, no. 2, 2017, pp. 141-169.


• Review: The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art. Cinema Journal. vol. 56, no. 2, 2017, pp. 155-160.


• 2017 Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Mellon Faculty Fellows Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 27-28, 2017.


• Round Table Discussion on the Burkini Ban in France, Beloit College, (Beloit, September 2016).


• “Plural Pathways, Plural Identities: Jean Phillipe Stassen’s “Les Visiteurs de Gibralter.” in Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities. Binita Meta and Pia Mukherji, eds. Routledge, 2015, pp. 29-43.


• “Postcolonial Interjections: Jean-Philippe Stassen Illustrates Heart of Darkness and We Killed Mangy-Dog.” in Alternative Francophone, vol. 1., no. 8, 2015, pp. 18-36.


• “Graphic Novels and Identity in Africa and the Diaspora,” presented as part of the 2013-2014 Faculty Colloquium series at Willamette University (Salem, 2014).


• “Humor as a Way to Re-Image and Re-Imagine Gabon and France in La Vie de Pahéand Dipoula.” European Comic Art, vol. 5, no. 2, 2012, pp. 44-66.


• “Aya de Yopougon: A More Palatable Africa.” presented at the African Activist Association’s Fourth Annual Conference, “Narratives of Now: Visual and Performance Art in Africa” (University of California, Los Angeles 2009).


• Michelle Bumatay and Hannah Warman, “Illustrating Genocidaires, Orphans, and Child Soldiers in Central Africa.” Peace Review. vol. 24, no. 3, 2012, pp. 332-339.


• “La collaboration à distance: Entretien avec Alain Mabanckou.” Paroles gelées, vol. 25, no. 1, 2009, pp. 27-34.