Assistant Professor Director of Graduate Studies Dr. Alexander Fyfe received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and African Studies from the Pennsylvania State University in 2019. Prior to joining UGA, he taught at the American University of Beirut and the University of Edinburgh. While his primary focus is modern African literatures, he also teaches in the areas of postcolonial literatures, world literature, and critical theory. Dr. Fyfe's research is concerned with the relations between politics and literary form in modern African literatures. His book, Writing the Noncolonial Self: Modern African Literatures and the Politics of Subjectivity, is forthcoming with the University of Virginia Press in 2026. The book received the Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award from the American Comparative Literature Association in 2025. His articles have appeared in College Literature, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, and elsewhere. He has edited special issues of African identities (2020), The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (2018, with Rosemary Jolly), and Comparative Literature Studies (2025, with Rosemary Jolly. With Madhu Krishnan, he co-edited the volume African Literatures as World Literatures (2022, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing). Selected Publications Selected Publications: “Introduction: Reading African Forms Simultaneously.” Co-written with Rosemary Jolly. Comparative Literature Studies. 62.2, 2025, 167-183. “Es’kia Mphahlele and the Literary Project of African Humanism.” College Literature. 52.2, 2025, 276-306. “Video Games in Selected African Novels: Playing Intermediality in Manifold Ways.” Journal of the African Literature Association. 19.1, 2025, 115-130. “Beyond the Liberal Subject: Susan Kiguli and the Lyric Poem in 1990s Uganda.” (Invited). Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. 26.3-4, 2024, 553-574. African Literatures as World Literature, co-edited with Madhu Krishnan. Bloomsbury Academic Publishing. 2022. “Infrastructure and the Valences of the Literary in Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 63.4, 2022, 500-512. Winner of the African Literature Association’s Abioseh Porter Best Essay Award in 2024. “‘Reading and Writing... Loudly’: Ikhide R. Ikheloa, Online Criticism, and African Literary Studies.” Social Dynamics. 47.1, 2021, 154-171. “Marxism and African Literary Studies Today.” African Identities 18.1-2, 2020, 1-17. “The Archival Politics of the Postcolonial Special Collection: A Case Study in Literary Value and Amos Tutuola.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 50.2-3, 2019, 137-161. “Wealth in Fiction: Animism, Capitalism, and Ben Okri’s The Famished Road Trilogy.” The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5.3, 2018, 318-337. “The Textual Politics of the Land in the Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa.” Research in African Literatures 48.4, 2017, 78-93. “Universalism and the Specificity of the Literary in Frantz Fanon’s ‘On National Culture’”. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 19.6, 2017, 764-780
