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Education
- PhD University of Minnesota
- Université de Grenoble (France)
- Université de Dakar (Senegal)
- University of Nigeria-Nsukka
Obioma G. Nnaemeka
- Chancellor’s Professor of French
Academic interests
black women writers, feminist theory, transnational feminisms, French/Francophone literatures, oral and written literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora, gender and development, human rights
Awards
- various grants; Rockefeller Humanist-in-Residence (University of Minnesota);
- Edith Kreeger-Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor(Northwestern University);
- and national and international awards including Nigerian Achiever of the Year Award for Leadership, The Ditinguished Africanist Award and the Teaching Excellence Recognition Award.
Publications
- (editor) The Politics of (M)Othering: Womanhood, Identity and Resistance in African Literature (Routledge 1997);
- Feminisms,Sisterhood and Power: From Africa to the Diaspora (Africa World Press 1998);
- and contributions to various journals including Signs, FeministIssues, Research in African Literatures, Law and Policy, Dialectical Anthropology, Western Journal of Black Studies and International Journal of Third World Studies
Service
President, Association of African Women Scholars;
convenor of the international conferences on Women in Africa and the African Diaspora (WAAD; President and CEO of the Jessie Obidiegwu Education Fund