Gilbert Shang NdiGilbert S. Ndi is a scholar in Comparative Literature from the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth, Germany. Between 2015 and 2017 he was Fritz Thyssen Postdoctoral Fellow at the Chair of Francopone Literatures/Comparative Studies of the same university. His research interests include: the African dictatorship novel, literature and politics, politics/poetics of the body, violence in literature, visual culture and cyber literature. The scope of his research principally covers parts of Africa and Latin America. He is currently a member of the Junges Kolleg of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Munich) and a Feodor Lynen Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in La Universidad de los Andes, Bogota-Columbia. His outstanding research work earned him a recognition at the annual DAAD fellows meeting in Bayreuth in April 2017. Read More Read Less