Doyle D. Calhoun

Doyle D. Calhoun is University Assistant Professor in Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of Mourir pour n’être à personne (La Découverte, 2026), the French translation of The Suicide Archive (Duke University Press, 2024), which has won, among other honors, the Modern Language Association prize and the African Studies Association prize. He has also translated or edited several books, including The Essential Senghor (Duke University Press, 2026) and Senegalese Transmediations (Yale University Press, 2025). He has written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books and LARB Quarterly, Public Books, and Salon. He is currently a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center.