Who We Are

The Graduate Student Caucus of the African Literature Association (GSCALA) is an organization for those interested in promoting and conducting research at the graduate level of African and African diaspora literature and culture.

We are one of many caucuses part of the African Literature Association (ALA). Visit the ALA Website to find out more.

Find Out More

Become a GSCALA member. It's free! If you are a member of the ALA and either a graduate student or interested in student & graduate student issues and would like to become connected with other like-minded graduate students, contact the GSCALA Chair, Marlene De La Cruz-Guzman (delacr@ohio.edu) for more information on joining the GSCALA.

Join our Facebook and Yahoo groups. On Facebook, find us under the group "African Literature Association - GSC." On Yahoo, we are GSCALA.

News and Events

We have recently added a listing of Africana jobs for 2010. See Jobs for full details. We are in the process of organizing information on searching for jobs and publishing articles. It will be posted here soon.