Nathalie Etoke is an associate professor of francophone and Africana studies at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Melancholia Africana: The Indispensable Overcoming of the Black Condition (2019), the original French edition of which received the Frantz Fanon Prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2012, and L’Écriture du corps féminin dans la littérature de l ’Afrique francophone au sud du Sahara (2010). In 2011 she directed Afro-Diasporic French Identities, a documentary on race, identity, and citizenship in contemporary France.