Isaac Bazié is a professor of African Literature and Culture at the University of Quebec at Montreal. He received his doctoral degree in Romance and comparative literature from the University of Bayreuth in Germany. His teaching and research areas encompass the theorization and figurations of Africa in their response to the world, the problem of literary canonization and African literature, and theories of reading and literary reception, among others. His publications include edited volumes Donko, Studies on African Cultures (2019), and To Imagine the Violence: Perspectives from the North-South (2015).