Paul F. Bandia is Professor of French and Translation Studies in the Department of French at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. He is an Associate Fellow of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

He is currently the President of the Association for Translation Studies in Africa (ATSA), a member of the Executive Council of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) and a member of the Editorial Board of numerous international journals. Professor Bandia’s interests lie in translation theory and history, postcolonial studies, and cultural theory. He is considered a leading scholar in postcolonial translation theory and history with particular interest in Africa and its diaspora, as well as encounters between the Global South and the Global North. He has given numerous lectures and keynote addresses at conferences and universities in North and South America, Europe and Africa.