Abbreviated Vitae
Education
Ph.D. in American Studies: “The Construction of Religion and History in Selected Contemporary Works of the African Americas,” University of Nottingham, UK, July 2006
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Department of Gender and Race Studies, University of Alabama
Select Publications
Witches, Goddesses and Angry Spirits: The Politics of Spiritual Liberation in African Diaspora Women’s Fiction, (Ohio State University Press, 2013)
Race and Displacement: Nation, Migration and Identity in the Twenty-First Century (University of Alabama Press, 2013)
Journal Articles
“New Diasporas in the Making: The Journey of Sub-Saharan Africans to Europe,” The International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol.1, 14, Fall 2011, pp. 234-239.
“Selling Tituba: the Marketing of a Black Heroine in Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem” The Columbia Journal of American Studies, Vol.9, Fall 2009, pp 229-254.
“The Stillness That Comes After: African Traditional Religions, Christianity and the Meaning of Death in David Bradley’s The Chaneysville Incident,” The College Language Association Journal, Summer 2008, 51.4, pp 331-55.
“Interpolating Harriet Tubman: Representation of Gender and Heroism in David Bradley's The Chaneysville Incident,” Columbia Journal of American Studies, January 17 2008, <http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cjas/chaneysville1.html>.
Book Articles
“Candomblé, Christianity and Gnosticism in Toni Morrison’s Paradise,” The African Diaspora and the Study of Religion, Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2007, pp 111-127. Ed. by Theodore Louis Trost
"Religious Beliefs and Practices: Trends in World Religious Views" in Religions of Africa and the Diaspora, Carolyn Medine and Simon Ibigbolade, eds. (Springer Publishers) Forthcoming
Teaching
Dr. Marouan teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Diaspora Intellectual Thought, African Diaspora Religions, Women in the African Diaspora, Gender and Immigration, Women in Islam, Third World Feminisms.
Academic Affiliations
The African Diaspora Religions Group at the American Academy of Religion (Founder)
American Academy of Religion
National Women’s Studies Association
African Studies Association
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
College Language Association