Assistant professor of French and French graduate adviser at Florida State University, Michelle Bumatay, (Ph.D., UCLA) specializes in African Francophone literature and visual culture as well as contemporary France. Her book, On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power (Ohio State University Press) explores the diversity of comics in French by Black artists and authors. She is the 2015 recipient of the Annual Lawrence R. Schehr Memorial Award for her conference paper, “Notre histoire and Madame Livingstone: Travels in Time” and she has published in Contemporary French Civilization, Études francophones, European Comic Art, Alternative Francophone, Research in African Literatures, and Francosphères. She is also the organizer of the Winthrop-King Institute’s Global Africas series.