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Maureen N. Eke <eke1mn@cmich.edu> Central Michigan University |
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Address: | Department of English AN 241 Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859 United States |
Primary Phone: | 989-774-1087 |
Secondary Phone: | 989-774-3171 (main office) |
Fax Number: | 989-774-1271 |
List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-AfrLitCine |
Reviews: | untitled |
Interests: | African American History / Studies African History / Studies Black History / Studies Cultural History / Studies Film and Film History Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Human Rights Humanities Literature Native American History / Studies Theatre and Performance History / Studies Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Bio: Degrees: B.A. (Special Hons.) English , Ahmadu Bello University; MA & PH.D. Comparative Literature (IU, Bloomignton) Publications: Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film. Eds. with Ada Azodo (2007); African Images: Studies in cinema and Text. Eds. with Kenneth Harrow and Emmanuel Yewah (2000); Cross Rhythms 3: Papers in African Folklore. Eds. with Susan Domowitz and Enoch Mvula (1989); "Sozaboy: A Novel in rotten English," Ken Saro-Wiwa, Writer and Political Activist (1999); "Diasporic Ruptures and (Re)membering: Africa as Home and Exile (1999); with Keyan Tomaselli & Arnold Shepperson, "Towards a Theory of Orality in African Cinema" (1995 & 1999); "Revisioning African Drama to Include the Female Voice: Fatima Dike, a Revolutionary Playwright" (1997); With Keyan Tomaselli, "Film and Human Rights, Whose Interpretations, What Consequences?" (1997); "From the Heart: Women and Liberation in New Writings by Black South African Women" (1993). Courses: Postcolonial Theory and Literatures; African Literature; World Literature; African American Literature; Literature and Film; Women Writers. NEH Institute, "Teaching the History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement" W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University, 1997; NEH Institute, "Postcolonial Literature and Theory, SOAS, London,1998; Director, NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers, "Writing Africa" CMU (1999, 2002, 2004, & 2007). Professional experience: Vice President, African Literature Association (2007-2008; President, African Literature Association (2008-2009); Secretary, African Literature Association (1995-1999); Editorial Board, Screening the Past (1997-Present); Critical Arts (1993- Present); Chair, African Literature Division of the MLA Associate Vice President for Diversity and International Education (2003 -2006) and Interim Assistant Vice President for Institutional Diversity, Central Michigan Univeristy, 2002. |