Dr Sophie Marie Niang is a black feminist researcher, writer and teacher based in Cambridge, UK. She is currently the Lumley Research Fellow in European Cultural Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Her academic work, sitting at the intersection of black feminist thought, cultural studies, queer of colour critique and black studies, explores practices of worldmaking and refusal across geographic and temporal boundaries.
Lately
Writing
Dolly's Laugh: A Meditation on Recorded Excess (with Ruari Paterson-Achenbach), openworks.
On Flamboyance: Refusal and Worldmaking in Rébecca Chaillon’s Carte noire nommée désir, Modern & Contemporary France
Talks
Iboga in Fontainebleau: Postcolonial Ecologies of the Hexagon in Seynabou Sonko's Djinns, SFPS Postgraduate Study Day: 23 May 2025.
Keynote at the Society for French Studies Annual Postgraduate Conference: 30 May 2025.
Upcoming
Writing
Talks
- Refusal, solidarity, and children’s anarchist resistance in Zero for Conduct, LCCT: 20-21 June 2025