Pr. Wendell Marsh

Prof. Wendell Marsh is Associate Professor of African Literature and Philosophy at UM6P – Center for African Studies (CAS). He joins us from Rutgers University–Newark, where he taught for seven years in the Department of Africana Studies and helped build initiatives such as the “Islam, the Humanities, and the Human” working group and the exhibition Powers of the Unseen. Trained in intellectual history, comparative literature, and religious studies, his past research has centered on the life and works of the Senegalese Muslim polymath Shaykh Musa Kamara, culminating in his forthcoming book Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 2025). His current projects explore African textual traditions, philology, and the intersections of Islam, Africanity, and the humanities, while his future work aims to build digital and collaborative platforms for rethinking African intellectual legacies in global perspective. At UM6P, Professor Marsh will offer interdisciplinary courses in African thought, literature, and philosophy, and he looks forward to developing initiatives in Global Black Studies, digital philology, and cross-regional intellectual exchange between North and West Africa.