Kimberly Rooney

Kimberly Rooney is the Africana and Francophone Studies Librarian at UW-Madison. She consults with students, faculty, and community users of the library to access relevant and unique collections that bolster their research. She is also an educator of language, literature and culture of the French-speaking world. Her research draws on concepts of decolonial praxis, postcolonial theory, childhood studies, and critical pedagogy to interrogate the school and its representations in sub-Saharan African French-language literature. She is interested in public humanities and promoting humanistic dispositions beyond the classroom, into engagements with both local and global communities. She is a knitter, a sports fan, and a doting auntie.