| Moneera Al-Ghadeer | Associate Professor, Arabic language and literature; literary theory; francophone literature and post-colonial studies; feminist philosophy. Research on North Africa. |
| Patrick R. Bennett | Professor Emeritus |
| Hazel Carter | Professor Emerita |
| Dustin Cowell | Professor, Arabic language and literature, Medieval Arabic poetry and Hispano-Arabic studies. Research in Tunisia, Mauritania, and Egypt. |
| Magdalena Hauner | Professor, Swahili and Bantu linguistics. (Associate Dean, College of Letters and Science). Research in Kenya and Tanzania. |
| Linda Hunter | Professor Emerita |
| Daniel P. Kunene | Professor Emeritus |
| Edris Makward | Professor Emeritus |
| Seth Ofori | Assistant Professor, African linguistics, Akan literature and language. Research in Ghana. |
| Tejumola Olaniyan | Professor (also English), African and African Diaspora literatures; literary theory. Research in Nigeria and the African diaspora. |
| Harold Scheub | Professor, African oral and written literatures. Research in South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland and Uganda. |
| Antonia Schleicher | Professor, Yoruba language and linguistics; second language pedagogy; phonology. (Director, National African Language Resource Center). Research in Nigeria. |
| Neil Skinner | Professor Emeritus |
| Aliko Songolo | Professor, Francophone African, Caribbean, and Swahili literature (also French and Italian). Research in Tanzania and in francophone Africa including Cameroon, Burundi, Rwanda, Senegal and Congo. |
