Roxanne Ewoudou is a 1st year PhD student. She holds a Master in French from the University of Delaware and a bachelor degree in social sciences from the University of Central Africa. She is interested in the unique perspectives of African women writers regarding feminism. She wants to study fictional texts through sociological lenses and analyze how economic and political hardships influence African feminism/womanism. She is also interested in the way African writers describe the intimate experience of womanhood through fictional characters.