Wendell Marsh is an Associate Professor of African Literature and Philosophy at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Ben Guérir, Morocco. He researches and teaches at the intersections of African and diasporic intellectual history, comparative literature, religious studies, and the politics of knowledge production.

His scholarship foregrounds African contributions to global intellectual traditions—especially through Arabic-language sources—and examines how race, religion, and language shape the humanities and public discourse.

Marsh’s book, Textual Life: Islam, Africa, and the Fate of the Humanities (Columbia University Press, 2025), offers a literary reading of African Muslim thinkers that challenges and expands the boundaries of global thought.

Beyond academia, he curates public-facing exhibitions exploring the aesthetic dimensions of intellectual life. Most recently he co-curated “Powers of the Unseen” at Express Newark, a multi-artist exhibition that investigated Muslim spiritualities and the politics of representation through contemporary art.