Dr. Emmanuel Yewah is the Howard L McGregor Endowed Professor of Humanities in the Department of Foreign Languages, Albion College, Michigan where he has been teaching French and interdisciplinary studies for twenty years. He is currently serving three year terms on the Board of the West African Research Association as well as on the Executive Council of the African Literature Association where he has taken a special interest in shifting the latter's focus on purely literary studies to more "expressive forms and social practices of popular and mass cultures" and to interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research on literature.

Professor Yewah has conducted archival research on colonial legal systems and the role of interpreters in colonial courts in Cameroon and has done literary historiography in Kenya funded by The Great Lakes Colleges Association. His research and teaching interests range from (anti) dictatorial discourses, African detective fiction, filmic adaptations of African literary texts, and post colonial theories, to African visual cultures (Film and Photography) and Human Rights issues from a literary perspective. He has published extensively in these areas and in a variety of avenues including Research in African Literatures, The French Review, Africa World Press, Theatre Research International, Africa Today, and The University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1987).