Emilie Diouf is an Assistant Professor of English, African American and African Studies, Women and Gender Studies at Brandeis University. Her research focuses on testimonies of African women who have been refugees, displaced people, or victims of political violence. She studies these testimonies in many forms, including from Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, testimonial narratives collected by NGOs and refugee relief organizations, formal autobiographies and memoirs, and documentary films. Through analysis of survivor testimonies and artistic representations of African women’s experiences of violence, forced displacement, and humanitarian intervention, Diouf has highlighted that women’s experiences of trauma are crucial to understanding and transforming socioeconomic and political crises on the African continent and the international community’s responses to them.