Editor

Research in African Literatures, 2003 - 2008;

Associate editor, 1991-2003

Books

“The Original Explosion that Created Worlds:” Essays on the Art and Writings of Werewere Liking. John Conteh-Morgan, Irène Assiba d’Almeida, eds., Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, forthcoming 2009. 330pp

Theatres of Delegitimation: Performance, Politics and Transgression in Postcolonial Francophone Theatre.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.

Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment by Louis Sala-Molins. Translated with an Introduction by John Conteh-Morgan. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 165pp

African Drama and Performance. John Conteh-Morgan, Tejumola Olaniyan, eds., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004. 274pp

The Struggle for Meaning: Reflections on Philosophy, Culture, and Democracy in Africa. Translated by John Conteh-Morgan. Preface by Anthony Kwame Appiah. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002. 308pp

The Postcolonial Condition of African Literature. John Conteh-Morgan, Dan Gover, Jane Bryce, eds., Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2002. 149pp

Theatre and Drama in Francophone Africa: A Critical Introduction. London and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 243pp. (paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, 2007).

Selected Articles:

“The Rehearsal is the Play: Dramatic Self-Reflexivity and Werewere Liking’s Quelque Chose – Afrique,” in John Conteh-Morgan and Irène Assiba d’Almeida, eds., The Original Explosion that Created Worlds: Essays on the Art and Writings of Werewere Liking. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi, forthcoming.

“The Color of the Enlightenment.” Introduction to Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment by Louis Sala-Molins. Trans. John Conteh-Morgan. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press (2006): vii-xxxvi

“The Other Avant-Garde: Radical African Theatre and the Poetics and Politics of Performance,” in Joseph Rouse and James Harding, eds., Not the Other Avant-Garde: The Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance. Michigan: University of Michigan Press (2006): 92-124

“Antigone in the ‘Land of the Incorruptible’: Sylvain Bemba’s Noces Posthumes de Santigone,” in John Conteh-Morgan and Tejumola Olaniyan, eds, Drama and Performance in Africa. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2004) 78-88

“Theatre in Francophone Africa South of the Sahara,” in Martin Banham, ed., The Cambridge History of Theatre in Africa.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2004). 85-137

“Performance indigène et esthétique du théâtre alternatif en Afrique francophone: les cas de Werewere Liking et de Tchicaya U’Tamsi.” L’Annuaire théâtral (Revue québecoise d’études théâtrales) 31 (2002): 65-81.

“Theatre and the Performance of the Nation in Africa,” in Okwui Enwezor, ed.,The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994. Ed. Munich: Prestel (2001): 303-8.

“French Critics and Francophone African Theatre,” Oeuvres et Critiques XXVI. 1 (2001): 15-28.

“Myth, Ritual Performance and the Search for a New Theatre in Francophone Africa: The Example of Werewere Liking’s Une nouvelle terre,” in P. Little and R. Little, eds., Black Accents: Writing in French from Africa, Mauritius and the Caribbean. London: Grant and Cutler (1997): 221-234.

“African Traditional Drama and Issues in Performance and Theatre Criticism,” in Clifford Davidson and John Stroupe, eds., Early and Traditional Drama: Africa, Asia, and America. Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications (1994): 3-18.