found: JSTOR, Research in African literatures, v. 29, no. 1, spring 1998, viewed Sep. 17, 2017:page 199 (Albert S. Gérard; Albert Stanislas Gérard; born 12 July 1920 in Namur, Belgium; professor of comparative literature at the University of Liège, Belgium from 1963 until his retirement in 1983; the first part of his career was devoted to English romanticism and American literature, the second part (three decades) to Sub-Saharan African literatures in French, English, and Portuguese, as well as African-language literatures; professor of English literature at University of Elizabethville (now Lubumbashi), Katanga, from 1956 until after independence; dean of his Faculty there 1961-1963; his Four African Literatures: Xhosa, Sotho, Zulu, Amharic was published in 1971) page 201 (taught at several American universities; read the first lecture on modern African literature at Wisconsin in 1963; taught the first course on the subject at Harvard in 1966-67; honorary doctorate from the University of South Africa in 1993; died from an accident in November 1996)