Maëline Le Lay
Maëline Le Lay is specialised in African literatures. Her current research deals with performing arts and literature in the contemporary era of the Great Lakes Region of Africa (D.R. Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania). She also investigates the colonial history of theatre and literature written and performed in the former Belgian, British and French empires. She is a researcher at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), affiliated with THALIM research centre (Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle). She was affiliated with IFRA-Nairobi (French Institute for Research in Africa) in 2018-2021.