About

Charles Didier NOA holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Hispanic-American Literature from the University of Yaounde 1 (2021), Cameroon. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Spanish Language and Literature in the Spanish Section of the Department of European Languages at the University of Ghana. His research focuses mainly on Literary issues and the relationship between Literature and other fields of knowledge such as Philosophy, Anthropology, History or Translation Studies. He is currently serving in a governance role at the Academic International Council of the  Pan-African Heritage Museum (PAHM) and a member of the LASA Section, Africa and the Americas.

Fellowship:

Post-Doc Fellow, The Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2025-2026.

Research Interest

My research is focused on comparative literature, with a particular emphasis on Hispanic American studies and the literary dialogues between African and Latin American traditions. The focus of my research is the exploration of themes including exile, memory, identity, borders and corporeality, with a sustained interest in the problems of language and translation.

Research details:

Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7442-2802 

Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Charles-Didier-Noa-Bela

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QoHRUW0AAAAJ&hl=es 

Publications

Noa, C. D. (2020). “Autorretrato e identidad en Cómo llegó la noche de Huber Matos.” Afro-Hispanic Review, 39(1), pp. 10-23.

Noa, C.D. (2022). “La polémica de los lenguajes en Cómo llegó la noche de Huber Matos y Abril rojo Santiago Roncagliolo”, Georges Moukouti and Maimouna Sankhé, Coords., Conflits dynamiques et refonte de l'identité, Difundia, pp. 245-264.

Noa, C. D. (2023). “Cubanidad, exiliado y artista en La memoria del agua de Héctor Santiago.” La Palabra, 45, pp. 1-14.

Noa, C. D. (2023). “La memoria del viaje en País sin nombre de Ribeyro y La memoria del agua de Santiago.” The Department of Foreign Languages of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, vol. 44, pp. 31-49.

N., C. D. & Novieto, S. D. (2024). “Frontière, mémoire, langue et avenir dans La plus secrète mémoire des hommes de Mohamed Sarr et En la frontera del agua de Justo Bolekia.” ACTIO NOVA: Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada, (8), pp. 1-21.

Noa, C. D. (2024). “Pobreza, crimen y sexo en El Rey de La Habana de Pedro Juan Gutiérrez: 1. Huellas, historia y emoción en Gutiérrez.” Revista Cedotic 9.2, pp. 218-240.

Noa, C. D. (2025). “África en Los detectives salvajes de Roberto Bolaño: Viaje y aventuras.” Analecta Malacitana, Revista de la sección de Filología de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 46, pp. 75-90.

Noa, C. D. (2025). “La identidad y el simulacro en Máscaras de Leonardo Padura.” Afro-Hispanic Review, 42(2), pp. 9-23.