Cilas Kemedjio’s research interests include the articulation of the shared destinies and misunderstandings that circulate in the realm of transnational black studies, critical investigations of unequal encounters that are made possible by humanitarian interventions, and the genealogy of subjugation and resistance that is exhibited in the representations of the black body.

• Les archives de l’imaginaire. Voici pourquoi les étudiant(es) de l’Université de Yaoundé ont fait grève ou l’incontournable conference nationale. Introduction, notes et commentaries par Cilas Kemedjio. Yaoundé: Editions Terroirs (Forthcoming, 2012)
• De la Négritude à la Créolité. Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé et la malediction de la théorie. Hamburg: LIT Verlag, 1999.
• “The Suspect Nation: Globalization and the Postcolonial Imaginary” (Yale French Studies, 120 (2011), 111-126).
• “Le malentendu humanitaire: une approche de Guelwaar d'Ousmane Sembène” ÉTUDES LITTÉRAIRES AFRICAINES 2011/30, 46-58.
• "Aimé Césaire's Letter to Maurice Thorez: The Practice of Decolonization." Research in African Literatures 41.1 (2010): 87-108.
• “Of Aid and the African Renaissance: A discussion from Ngugi wa Thiongo’s Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance, Ngugi wa Thiongo’s The Wizard of the Crow, and Dambisa Moyo’s Dead Aid: Why Aid is not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa" Critical Investigations Into Humanitarianism in Africa (Academic Blog, UC Irvine April 2010)
• “Imaginaires de la departementalisation: les indpendances en miroir”, International Journal of Francophone Studies, 11.3 (November 2008), 345-364.
• Mongo Beti: le combattant fatigué (completed manuscript under revision)
• Critical Investigations Into Humanitarian Interventions in Africa (with Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine)
• The Humanitarian Misunderstanding: Remembering Globalization

• Representing African-Americans in the African Imagination
• Black Paris
• Growing Up in French
• Madness and Postcolonial Literature
• Mutilated Bodies, Mutilated Discourse