Uchechukwu Umezurike
Dr. Uchechukwu Umezurike, Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary, is an award-winning Nigerian author and academic. He is the winner of the Nigeria Prize for Literary Criticism (2021), Provost’s Awards for Indigenous and Black Scholars, University of Calgary (2021) and a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2018). As the author of literary works such as There’s More (2023), Double Wahala (2021), and Wish Maker (2021) and a co-editor of Wreaths for a Wayfarer (2020), his academic research draws from gender studies and critical race theory to analyse African, African diaspora, postcolonial and global literatures as well as film. His work focuses on literatures of Africa and the African diaspora, postcolonial and global literatures, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, critical race theory and creative writing. His creative writing has appeared in the following publications: The Lamp, Evergreen Review, Onomonresoa, On Broken Wings, Long Story Short, Dream Chasers, Migrations, Lagos of the Poets, Washington Square Review, African Roar, and Daughters of Eve and Other Short Stories. His critical writing has appeared in Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, Postcolonial Text, the Journal of African Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, the Journal of the African Literature Association and African Literature Today.
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– ‘Omelora’: Orthodox and Disciplinary Masculinities
– The Eco(Centric) Border Man: Masculinities and The Nonhuman
– Self-Publishing in The Era of Military Rule in Nigeria, 1985-1999
– Postcolonial Ogres in Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of The Crow
– Land Of Cemetery: Funereal Images in The Poetry of Musa Idris Okpanachi
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