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Curriculum Vitae
DR. JUSTUS KIZITO SIBOE MAKOKHA
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth: 21st July 1979 Place of Birth: Nairobi, KENYA Nationality: Kenyan DAAD alumnus and KAAD Alumnus Married
Postal Address: C/O Department of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
Kenyatta University P. O. Box 43844- 00100 Nairobi KENYA
Email: [email protected] Mobile Phone: +254 8746 684 947
PRESENT POSITIONS
Lecturer, Department of Literature, Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Kenyatta
University (October, 2011 – Present) Chairman, Seminars and Presentations Committee, Literature Section, Kenyatta University (January, 2016 – Present) Member, Quality Assurance, Literature Section, Kenyatta University (January, 2016 – Present)
Member, International Advisory Board, Journal of Somali Studies (JOSS) (January, 2014 – Present) Member, Chama Cha Kiswahili Cha Afrika Mashariki (CHAKAMA)
(January, 2013 – Present)
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
Academic Advisory Committee Member, Institute of African Studies, Kenyatta University (January, 2012 – 2018)
Examinations Co-ordinator, Department of Literature, Kenyatta University (January, 2014 – January, 2016) Editor-in-Chief, Chemchemi: International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (October, 2012 – October, 2015) DAAD Doctoral Research Fellow. Institute for English Philology, Free University of Berlin (April, 2008 – September, 2011) Assistant Lecturer, Institute for English Philology, Free University of Berlin (April, 2008 – July, 2011)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. (English), Free University of Berlin, Germany. (Awarded July 22, 2011)
M. A. (Literature), Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. (Awarded July 14, 2006)
B.Ed. (Arts), (English & Literature) Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. Awarded 2002
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ACADEMIC AWARDS/RESEARCH GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
DAAD- AUGA (Association of Ugandan German Alumni) Scholarly Writing Regional Workshop Travel Grant as Chief Trainer, March 2019
Centre of Diasporic Studies (CoHab), University of Mumbai Travel Grant as Special Guest Speaker, June
2018
Centre for African Cultural Excellence (CACE) – Writivism Travel Grant as Guest Speaker, 2016
Inter-University Council of East Africa Travel Grant as Nominated Distinguished Recipient
2015 Past Presidents‟ Bronze Book Award 2013 of the Association of for Borderland Studies
(ABS) MAK-NUFU Artistic and Literary Scholarship Award, April 2012 FU-DAAD
Research Travel Grant, August, 2011
Kenyatta University Partial Staff Development Scholarship 2002- 2003
Kenyatta University Partial Staff Development Scholarship 2003- 2004
CIC- FU Research Travel Grant, April 2009
DAAD Full Grant Scholarship 2007 - 2011
KAAD Full Grant Scholarship 2003 - 2004
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS
1. Published Books & Monograph
1. Cultural Archives of Atrocity: Essays on the Protest Tradition in Kenyan Literature, Culture and Society. New York and London, Routledge, 2019. Co-edited with Colomba Muriungi, Charles Kebaya & Justus Kizito Siboe Makokha. 377 pp. ISBN: 978-036720-54-54
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2. From Asmara 2000 to Nairobi 2014: Trends in African Languages and Literatures. Nairobi: Kenyatta University Press, 2018. Co-edited with Catherine M. Ndungo, Leonard Chacha, Pamela m. Y. Ngugi & Daniel Ngugi. 460 pp. ISBN: 978-9966-54-100-0
3. Writing Language, Culture and Development. Vol. 1. Harare: Mwanaka Media and Publishing House, 2018. Co-edited with Tendai Rinos Mwanaka and Upal Desh. (with introduction by Dr. J. K.S. Makokha. 298 pp. ISBN: 978-079-748-931
4. Reading African Literatures: Critical Perspectives. Amsterdam, New York NY: Rodopi, 2013. Co-edited with Reuben Chirambo. (with foreword by Prof. Moradewun Adejunmobi). 444 pp. ISBN: 978-90-420-3675-8
5. Style in African Literature: Essays on Literary Stylistics and Narrative Styles. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. Co-edited with Ogone John Obiero and Russell West-Pavlov (with foreword by Chin Ce). 444 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-420-3476-1
6. Border-Crossings: Narrative and Demarcation in Postcolonial Literatures. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. Co-edited with Jennifer Wawrzinek and Russell West-Pavlov. 279 pp. ISBN: 978-3-8253-5899-0
7. East African Literatures: Essays on Written and Oral Traditions. Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2011. Co-edited with Egara Kabaji and Dominica Dipio (with foreword by Professor Ali Jimale Ahmed of City University of New York) 377pp.
ISBN: 978-3-8325-2816-4.
8. Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Orature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. Co-edited with Jennifer Wawrzinek (with foreword by Professor Simon Gikandi of Princeton University) 372pp.
ISBN: 978-90-420-3049-7.
9. Nest of Stones: Kenyan Narratives in Verse. Bamenda, Cameroon: Langaa Publishers, 2010. (with foreword by Professor Micere Mugo of Syracuse University). 184 pp.
ISBN: 9956-578-91-6.
9. Reading M. G. Vassanji: A Contextual Approach to Asian African Fiction. Saarbrücken: VDM, 2009. (Monograph) 156 pp.
ISBN: 978-363-912-5474.
10. Tales, Talesmiths and Tale-making: Critical Studies on Literary Stylistics and Narratology in Contemporary African Literature. Saabrücken: VDM, 2010. Co-edited with Adeyemi Daramola. 328 pp. ISBN 978-3-639-31137-2.
2. Refereed Edited Books and Books of Verse (Forthcoming)
The Eloquence of Silence: Poems. (book under preparation)
4. Refereed Book Chapters (Published)
Makokha, J. K. S. “The Politics and Poetics of Characterization in M. G. Vassanji‟s The Book of Secrets”. in
Reading Contemporary African Literature: Critical Perspectives. Eds. Reuben Chirambo and J. K. S. Makokha. Amsterdam, New York NY: Rodopi, 2013.
Makokha, J. K. S. “Brown Skins in Black States: Contextualising Post-Colonial Literature of the South Asian Diaspora in East Africa.” in Border-Crossings: Narrative and Demarcation in Postcolonial Literatures. Eds. Jennifer Wawrzinek, Justus Makokha and Russell West-Pavlov. Heidelberg: Winter, 2012. ISBN: 978-3-8253-5899-0 pp. 157-186.
Makokha, J. K. S. “The Eternal Other: Authority of Deficit Masculinity in Asian African Literature.” in
Men and Masculinities in African Fiction and Film. Ed. Lahoucine Ouzgane. London: James Currey,
2011. ISBN: 1-84701-521-2. pp. 139-152.
Makokha, J. K. S., “Imagined (Dis)locations: The Poetics of Setting in the Early Fiction of M. G. Vassanji.” in East African Literature: Essays in Written and Oral Traditions. Berlin: Logos Vergas. Eds.
J. K. S. Makokha, Egara Kabaji & Dominica Dipio. pp. 110-125. ISBN: 978-3-8325-2816-4.
-----. “In the Spirit of Afropolitanism: Introduction:” in Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Orature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. Eds. J. K. S. Makokha and Jennifer Wawrzinek. pp. 13-24. ISBN: 978-90-420-3049-7.
Makokha, J. K. S. And Remmy Barasa “Weaving Exilic Narratives: Homodiegetic Narration and Postcolonial Translocation of Theme in Abdulrazak Gurnah‟s Admiring Silence:” in Negotiating Afropolitanism: Essays on Borders and Spaces in Contemporary African Literature and Orature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2011. Eds. J. K. S. Makokha and Jennifer Wawrzinek. pp. 215-234. ISBN: 978-90-420- 3049-7.
Refereed Journal Articles (Peer-reviewed)
Nyongesa, Andrew, Justus Makokha and Kaigai Kimani, “Hybridity and Fixity: Modes of Resistance
in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise and A Mighty Collision of Worlds.” Journal of Somali Studies. Vol. 6. No. 1. June, 2019. Pp.71-91. ISSN: 2056-56-74. E-ISSN: 2056-5682 https://journals.co.za/content/journal/10520/EJC-16288a1db5
Makokha, J. K. S. “Okot’s Aesthetics Revisited: On Symbolic and Parabolic Expression in Song of
Lawino.” Nairobi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. 3. No. 1. January, 2019. Pp. 5 – 14. ISSN: 2523-0948.
Eno, Mohamed A, Mohamed Azaza, Omar A. Eno & Justus K. S. Makokha, “China-Africa Relations: How Tight Are the „Strings‟ Attached?” The International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol 2. Issue 9, 2014: pp. 196-203. ISSN 2321 – 9203. http://theijhss.com/2014-2/september-14
Makokha, J. K. S. & Michael Wainaina, “The Asian African Writer and the Postcolonial Condition in East Africa: On the In-Between Worlds of M. G. Vassanji” The Nairobi Journal of Literature, No. 7, July 2013: pp.41-54. ISSN 1814-1706
Kawoya, V. And J. K. S. Makokha, “The Case for Kiswahi li as a Regional Broadcasting Language in East Africa.” The Journal of Pan African Studies. Vol. 2. No. 8. 2009: pp. 11- 35. ISSN 1942-6569 (online).
http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol2no8/2.8_CaseForKiswahiliAsARegionalBroadcastingLanguageIn
EastAfrica.pdf
Published Conference Proceedings (Peer-reviewed)
Kawoya, V. and Makokha, J. K. S. “Kiswahili as a Tool of Integration in the East African Community:
Pedagogical Challenges.” International Conference on Education Proceedings. Theme: Innovative
Teacher Education and Classroom Practice in the 21st Century. July 8-10 2009. Nairobi, Kenya. Eds. Adelheid Bwire, Yan Huang, Joanna Masingila and Henry Ayot. New York, Nairobi: Syracuse University, Kenyatta University.
http://cuseinkenya.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ICE2009.pdf (online)
Makokha, J. K. S. “Modernity as a Challenge to African Culture: Critical Insights into the Kenyan
Expressive Experience.” In Challenges Facing Development in Africa. Vol. 1. Eds. Anne Nangulu
and A. Misia Kadenyi. Eldoret: Moi University Press, 2009. 287 – 300. ISBN: 9966-854-49-5. (print).
-----. “Postcolonial Criticism and Globalization through Kiswahili Lens.” Proceedings of the Institute for Kiswahili Research (IKR) Jubilee Symposium - 2005. eds. S. S. Sewangi and J. S. Madumulla. Dar es Salaam: TUKI, 2006. 130 – 138. ISBN 99 87 442 10 2. (Print)
Makokha, J. K. S. “The National University and the African Writer in the Age of Globalisation: A Consideration.” Re-invigorating the University Mandate in a Globalising Environment: Challenges, Obstacles and Way Forward: Conference Proceedings. Nairobi: DAAD, 2005. 381-398. (Print)
-----. “Tradition and Transition: The Tabanic Traditions and Asian African Writers in East Africa:” In Re- Invigorating the Academic Mandate in a Globalising Environment: Challenges, Obstacles and the Way Forward Conference Proceedings. Nairobi: DAAD, 2005. 43-63. (Print)
-----. “Shifting Perspectives on East African Literary Thought.” In Awaaz: The Authoritative Journal on Kenyan South Asian History. Vol. 2. Ed. Zahid Rajan. Nairobi: Zand Graphics, 2005. 37- 40. (Print)
-----. “The Worlds In-Between: An Interview with Moyez Gulamhussein Vassanji.” In Awaaz: The Authoritative Journal on Kenyan South Asian History. Vol. 2. Ed. Zahid Rajan. Nairobi: Zand Graphics, 2005. 41- 43. (Print)
Creative Writing
1. Annotated Already Published Pieces
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN: CREATIVE WORK ON THE OBUHIKIRA. Kampala: Doveson Educational Publishers, 2018. (Ed). Danson Kahyana (My three poems published in this volume). ISBN 978 9970 618 00 2. PP 78-81.
Whenever in Rwenzori It Rains
Cemetery Without Cross
EXPERIMENTAL WRITING: VOLUME 1, AFRICA VS LATIN AMERICA. Vol I. Cameroon: Langaa Publishers, 2017. (Eds). Tendai Rinos Mwanaka AND Jesus Ricardo Felix (My three poems published in this volume). ISBN 978 9956 764 266.
In Perraudin, Pascal, Deb, Basuli & Schneider, Annedith, Eds. Postcolonial Text: Guest Issue on Transnational Inquiries: Representing Postcolonial Violence and Cultures of Struggle. Vol. 7. No. 1 (2012) (online) ISSN 1705- 9100. http://postcolonial.org/index.php/pct/issue/view/36/showToc
„Night of Exit‟ ‟
And I Heard Rwenzururu Wails
„The Game of Gravestone County‟
„The Poet in a State of Emergence‟
„The Book of Life‟
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In Hodge, H. A. ed. New Contrast: South African Literary Journal. Vol 38. No. 2. (Winter 2010) 52-54. (print) ISSN-8: 1017-5415
ISSN-13: 977-1017-54100-8
„Northern Somalia: Tongue of Memory Sequence‟ (On a Beach in Berbera; To the Company; On Breasts
of Harghessa; On Adam and Eve; The Monument for Omar Kujoog; To a Prodigal Son) pp. 56-59.
In Nirmala, P. G. ed. The IUP Journal of Commonwealth Literature, (July 2010) Vol. II. No. 2 ISSN 0974-8822 (print),
„My Other Mother‟ pp. 106 – 108.
In Hodge, H. A. ed. New Contrast: South African Literary Journal. Vol 38. No. 1. (Autumn 2010) 52- 54. (print) ISSN 1017-5415
„Haiti: 1. 2010‟ pp. 52-54.
In. Ojwang, D. O. ed. Postcolonial Text: Special Issue on East African Literature and Intellectual Landscapes. Vol. 5. No. 3 (2009) (online) ISSN 1705-9100.
„Recent Poetry of JKS Makokha‟ (Anthem of Hunger; The Source of Myth; Halves of Truth; o Genesis; A Nest of Rest; Election Fever; Relatives for Hire; Leadership Styles).
Emezue, G. M. T. ed. Journal of New Poetry. No. 6 (2009) 163 – 165. ISBN 978-9-7836-0352-6 (online)
„Confession of a Kenyan‟
„In Memoriam‟
Nwokolo, Chuma. ed. African Writing No. 6. War and Peace Issue. (2009) ISSN 1754-6673 (online)
„The Last Call‟
„The Tomb of Amani‟
„Return of Author‟
Review Articles/Book Reviews/ Media Activities
1. Print Media
“Migritude as Cultural Spirit of our Times” (Poetry), Nairobi: Twaweza Publications, 2008, Jahazi. (print)
“Literary Icon‟s Rich Legacy.” The Sunday Nation. Nairobi. 6 May, 2007. p.12 (print) “Slavery was not Alien to Us.” The Sunday Nation. Nairobi. 29 May, 2007. p.12 (print) “Amezidi: The Trouble with Africa.” The People Daily. Nairobi. 23 December, 2005. p.12 (print) Writers Meet in Kisumu.” The People Daily. Nairobi. 18 November, 2005. p.11 (print) “Why Kenyans Must Embrace African Renaissance.” The People Daily. Nairobi. 15 October, 2005. p.8
(print) “Rethinking Gender Politics: What Do Men Want?” The People Daily. Nairobi. 6 September, 2005.
p.15 (print) “Images of Dukawallahs Litter East African Literature.” The People on Sunday. Nairobi. 21 August, 2005.
pp. 8/17 (print) “Another Season of Harvest Comes Via Asian African Writers and the Tabanic Traditions.” The
People Daily. Nairobi. 11 March, 2005. p.17 (print) “In Honour of Writer Bessie Head (1937-1986).” The People on Sunday . Nairobi. 1 May, 2005. p.8 (print)
“Celebrated Bessie Head‟s Life in the Mental Asylum.” The People on Sunday. Nairobi. 1 March, 2005. p.17
(print)
„A Nation of Advocates‟ p. 105.
„A Dream Half-Expressed‟
„Election Time Fever‟
„TJRC‟
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2. Electronic Media
I have appeared on the established Kenyan critic Professor Chris L. Wanjala‟s weekly literary criticism radio program, “The Literary Giant” pro duced by Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), the state- owned national radio station. This was on the following dates: March 7, 14, 21, 2005 and July 23, August 7; September 19, October 1, December 28, 2006. The radio interviews broadcasted across Kenya on Sunday afternoons focussed on my work and vision as a literary historian and critic, cooperation with the only regional literary magazine in East Africa, Kwani? and a one-on-one interview with the novelist M. G. Vassanji.
International Conference/Colloquium/Symposium Presentations
Nyongesa, Andrew, J. K. S. Makokha & Ezekiel Kaigai, “Hybridity and Fixity: Modes of Resistance in Safi Abdi’s Offspring of Paradise and A Migghty Collision of Two Worlds.” A Paper presented to the 3rd East African Literary and Cultural Studies Conference. 24th – 26th August, 2017, University of Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania. Theme: Cartographies of War and Peace in Eastern Africa. Organised by the Department of Literature, University of Dar es Salaam.
Makokha, J. K. S. “Fabulating African in Recent Kiswahili Prose: Postmodernist Aspects and their Meanings in Wamitila‟s Musaleo (2005) and Mohamed‟s Babu Alipofufuka (2001).” A Paper presented to The 2nd Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies Conference. 20th – 22nd, August, 2015, Makerere University. Organised by Makerere University‟s Department of Literature and the English department, University of Stellenbosch.
Maitaria, Joseph Nyehita na J. K. S. Makokha. “Methali za Kiswahili na Taaluma Muhimu Katika Jamii” Kongamano La Kitaifa la Chama Cha Kiswahili Afrika Mashariki (CHAKAMA), Tawi la Kenya, Chuo Kikuu Cha Rongo, 5th - 7th Juni, 2014.
Makokha, J. K. S. “Allegorical and Parabolic Communication in M. G. Vassanji‟s The Magic of Saida
(2013): Preliminary Notes.” At the Reflections on Moyez Vassanji: A Colloquium, University of Nairobi, 27th January, 2014.
Makokha, J. K. S. “Poets as Muses of Migritude: Prevalent Images of Contemporary Somalia in the Poetry
of Ali Jimale Ahmed and Mohamed Eno.” East Africa at 50 Conference on a Celebration of Histories
and Futures, University of Nairobi, 10th – 12th September, 2013 (Organized in Conjunction with
Stellenbosch University, Native Intelligence Trust and Kenya Oral Literature Association).
Makokha, J. K. S. “On the Orature of the Asians of East Africa: An Appreciation.” MAK-NUFU Folklore Conference on Oral Literature and Popular Culture: Contemporary Debates. Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda 27-28 April, 2012. (Organized in conjunction with University of Bergen).
Makokha, J. K. S. & Vincent Kawoya, “Kiswahili as a Tool of Integration in the East African Community (EAC): Pedagogical Challenges.” International Conference on Education: Innovative Teacher Education and Classroom Practice in the 21st Century. Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. 8 – 10 July, 2009. (Organized in conjunction with Syracuse University).
-----. “Globalization and African Heritage in the Twenty-First Century: Points of Interlock.” Seventh International Conference of the Association of Third World Studies (ATWS)-Kenya Chapter
themed: Rethinking African Heritage, Development and University Education in the Twenty-First Century. Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), Nairobi. Kenya. 7 – 11, May 2007.
Makokha, J. K. S. “Between Negritude and Migritude: The South Asian Legacy in Post-Colonial East African Literary Tradition c. 1965 – 2005. International Symposium on Black Intellectual Traditions. Moi University, Eldoret. Kenya. 27 November – 1 December, 2006. (Organized in conjunction with University of Witwatersrand).
-----. “The Urbanization of Kenyan Expressive Cultures: Contextualizing Emergent Post-Colonial
Orature.” International Conference of East African Oral Literature themed: Our Landscapes, Our
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Environment. Kisumu. Kenya. 22 – 25 November, 2005. (Organized by Kenya Oral Literature Association and International Development Research Center).
Kawoya, V. and Makokha, J. K. S. “Postcolonial Criticism and Globalization through Kiswahili Lens.” The Institute for Kiswahili Research (IKR) Jubilee International Symposium themed: Kiswahili and Globalization. Dar es Salaam. Tanzania. 4 – 7, July, 2005.
-----. “Literary Thought and the University in a Globalizing Environment: A Kenyan Perspective.” International Conference on the African University in the 21st Century. University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban. South Africa. 2005. June 27 – 29, 2005. (Organized by South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education- SAARDHE)
Makokha, J. K. S. “The National Universit y and the African Writer in the Age of Globalisation: A Consideration.” International Conference on Re-invigorating the University Mandate in a Globalizing Environment: Challenges, Obstacles and Way Forward. Kenyatta University. Nairobi. Kenya. 26 – 27 May, 2005. (Organized by the DAAD and the Kenya DAAD Scholars Association - KDSA).
NON-TEACHING UNIVERSITY DUTIES
1. Appointed Member: Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)’s Committee Investigating Effectiveness of Online Teaching of University Common Units (UCUs) Among Studies
(Report Submitted on Monday, 26th September, 2016)
2. Appointed Member: Planning Committee of the International Conference on
African Languages and Literatures. Organised by the Institute of African Studies, Kenyatta University. Appointed by the Vice Chancellor. (Conference held in August, 2014)
3. Appointed Member: Planning Committee of the International Conference on
African Urban Youth Languages. Organised by the Institute of African Studies, Kenyatta University. Appointed by the Vice Chancellor. (Conference held in December, 2015)
4. Appointed Member: Sub-Committee of the Kenyatta University Television Station On Directing and Production of Dramas and Comedies. Appointed by the Vice Chancellor. (15th October, 2015 to Present)
WORK EXPERIENCE
1. Kenyatta University, Kenya
Lecturer, October, 2011 – present
Postgraduate (M.A) Courses Taught (October 2011 – Present) ALT 802: Theory in Literature
ALT 805: Modern African Literature
ALT 811: Drama in Africa
ALT 814: Latin American Literature
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ALT 817: African American Literature
PUCU 800: Research Methodology (Department of Film and Theatre Arts)
CFT 804: Advanced Dramatic Theories (Department of Film and Theatre Arts)
Postgraduate Students under my Supervision
PHD STUDENTS SUPERVISED, COMPLETED AND GRADUATED 1. Name: Mr. Nelson Kariuki Banda (C82/25495/2011)
Thesis Title: Character and Worldview in Selected Queer Prose Fiction from East Africa
(COMPLETED AND GRADUATED IN DECEMBER, 2016)
PHD STUDENTS UNDER SUPERVISION CURRENTLY
1. Name: Mr. Jeremiah Muneeni Mutuku (C82/31615/2015) Thesis Title: Redefining the African Literary Canon: A New Historicist Analysis of Selected Texts by Women Writers
(ONGOING DOCTORATE RESEARCH)
2. Name: Mr. Andrew Wafula Nyongesa (C82/CE/34407/2016) Thesis Title: Otherness and the Fragmented Self in the Context of Postcolonial Disillusionment: Representations of Madness in Contemporary African Prose
(ONGOING DOCTORATE RESEARCH)
3. Name: Mr. Philip Etyang (C82/33844/2015)
Thesis Title: Picaresque Narratives and Popular Literature: A critical Study of Selected African Prose Fiction
(ONGOING DOCTORATE RESEARCH)
MASTER OF ARTS STUDENTS SUPERVISION DUTIES
1. Name: Mr. Philip Etyang (C50/21404/2010)
Thesis Title: Misogyny in Urban Fiction: A Study of Meja Mwangi (COMPLETED AND GRADUATED IN DECEMBER, 2014)
2. Name: Mr. Jeremiah Muneeni Mutuku (C50/21123/2010)
Thesis Title: The Nneka Principle in the Fiction of Achebe: A Study on the Mother Archetype in his Selected Novels (COMPLETED AND
GRADUATED IN JULY, 2014)
3. Name: Mr. Davis Otundo Otirigoya (C50/CE/21405/2010)
M. A. Project Title: Nature and Function of Proverbs in Negotiating Masculinities Among the Abagusii of Kenya: A Critical Examination
(COMPLETED AND GRADUATED IN
DECEMBER, 2015)
4. Name: Mr. Ndiang‟ui Ndung’u (C50/CE/23172/2010)
M.A. Project Title: A Commodification of Oral Literature Via Social Networks: A Study of Kula Happy Programmes” (COMPLETED
AND GRADUATED IN JULY, 2014)
5. Name: Mr. Joseph N. Murage (C50/CE/22732/2011)
M.A. Project Title: Social Power Dynamism Within the Familial
Spaces of Meja Mwangi‟s The Last Plague and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‟s Purple Hibiscus
(COMPLETED AND GRADUATED IN DECEMBER, 2014)
6. Name: Mr. Samson Maleya Lusinga (C50/CE/22467/2010)
Thesis Title: An Exploration of Ecological Consciousness in Selected Works of Henry Ole Kulet
(COMPLETED AND GRADUATED IN JULY 2016)
7. Name: Mr. Andrew Nyongesa (C50/CE/25838/2011)
M.A Project Title: Postcolonial Migration and Strategies of Textual
Resistance in Safi Abdi‟s Fiction
(COMPLETED AND GRADUATED IN JULY, 2016)
8. Name: Mr. Zadock Mukuyia Oyoolo (C50/CE/21465/2010)
Thesis Title: An Analysis of Thematic Concerns and Styles in Ali Akeko‟s Selected Popular Songs (COMPLETED AND GRADUATED IN JULY, 2017)
9. Name: Mr. James Nderitu Maina (C50/CE/14396/2009)
M.A. Project Title: Funerary Symbols in Masuji Ibuse‟s Black Rain and
Kenza Buro‟s The Silent Cry (COMPLETED AND GRADUATED IN JULY, 2017)
10. Name: Ms. Dorcas Warutumo (C50/CE/22736/2010)
Project Title: Manifestations of Internal Conflicts in Protagonists of Caribbean Fiction. A Case of Three Selected Works
(COMPLETED AND GRADUATED IN DECEMBER, 2017)
11. Name: Mr. Phillip Odhiambo Omollo (C50/CE/22752/2010) Project Title: Presentation of the „Educated‟ Woman in Kenyan Popular Fiction:
Study of Selected Texts (COMPLETED AND GRADUATEDN IN DECEMBER, 2017)
12. Name: Ms. Dorcas Jemisto Tuitoek (C50/CE/24437/2012)
Thesis Title: Zakes Mda‟s Social Vision for Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Study of His Selected Anthology of Plays
(COMPLETED AND GRADUATED IN DECEMBER, 2017)
13. Name: Mr. Dennis Onwong’a (C50/CE/21006/2012)
M.A. Project Title: Satire in Muroki Ndung‟u‟s Selected Works (ON-GOING)
14. Name: Mr. Japheth Nyaribo Nyandiba (C50/CE/25060/2014)
M.A. Project Title: Chronotopes of Masculinity and Femininity in Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s Kintu and Moses Isegawa’s Abyssinian Chronicles.
(ON-GOING)
15. Name: Ms. Alice Mogire (.C50/CE/24976/2012)
M.A. Thesis Title: Chronotopes of Identity and Belonging in Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears and All Our Names (ON-GOING)
16. Name: Ms. Millicent Omwoa (.C50/39323/2016)
M.A. Thesis Title: Diasporic Identity and Portrayal of Home in Buchi Emecheta’s The New Tribe and Kehinde
(ON-GOING)
Annotated Postgraduate Students Examined (Internal Examiner Capacity) 1. Name: Ms. Susan Gitimu (M66/15522/2008)
M.A. Thesis Title: Mise-en-Scene in Serial Drama Edutainment Department: Film and Theatre Studies, Kenyatta University Verdict: Student passed the examination August, 2013.
2. Name: Mr. William Mureithi Maina (M66/10789/2008)
M. A. Thesis Title: Narrative Form in Kenyan Homegrown Fiction Films Department: Film and Theatre Studies, Kenyatta University Verdict: Student passed examination February, 2014.
3. Name: Mr. Charles Kebaya (M88/23372/2012)
PhD Thesis Title: The Invention and (Re)Configuration of Space in Selected Kenyan Television Dramas
Department: Film and Theatre Studies, Kenyatta University
Verdict: Student passed examination July, 2016. Graduated 2016.
4. Name: Mr. Robert O. Wesonga (M88/25156/2012)
PhD Thesis Title: Intertextuality of Literary Texts and Corresponding Film Adaptations
Department: Film and Theatre Studies, Kenyatta University Verdict: Student passed examination September, 2017.
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Undergraduate Courses Taught (October 2011 – Present)
ALT 208: Literary Language and Presentation
ALT 200: East African Prose Fiction
ALT 102: Introduction to East African Oral Literature
VTF 300: Introduction to Research Methodology (Department of Film and Theatre Arts)
CFT 106: History of Film (Department of Film and Theatre Arts)
CFT 210: Theatre Criticism (Department of Film and Theatre Arts)
CFT 107: Film Genres (Department of Film and Theatre Arts)
1. Free University of Berlin, Germany Assistant Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragter), April, 2008 – July, 2011
(a) Middle Level Seminars (3rd and 4th Year levels) Caribbean Poetry in English
(Undergraduate students, Summer Semester, April 2011 – July
2011) o Linton Kwesi Johnson
o Kamau Braithwaite
o Martin Carter
ALT 417: Major Literary Movements
ALT 415: Women Writers ALT 403: Modern European Literature
ALT 402: Drama
ALT 401: African Literature
ALT 400: Literary Aesthetics
ALT 303: Theory and History of Literature ALT 301: Theory and Method in Oral Literature
ALT 300: Stylistics and Literary Technique
o Claude Mackay o Derek Walcott o Balwant Bagwandin o David Dabydeen o Una Marson o Merle Collins
o Grace Nichols
(b) Elementary Level Seminars (1st and 2nd Year levels) African Women Writing: An Introduction (Undergraduate students, Winter Semester, October 2010 – February 2011)
o Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood
o Nawal El Saadawi, God Dies by the Nile o Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, Coming to Birth o Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions o Bessie Head, A Question of Power o Nadine Gordimer, Lying Days
(c) Middle Level Seminars (2nd and 3rd Year Levels)
V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
Sam Selvon, A Brighter Sun
V. S. Reid, New Day
George Lamming, In the Castle of my Skin
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Wilson Harris, Palace of the Peacock
(c) Elementary Level Seminars (1st
and 2nd
Year Levels)
Studies in Modern African Poetry
(Undergraduate Course, Winter Semester, October 2009 – February 2010)
o Arthur Nortje o Dennis Brutus
o Chenjerai Hove
o Musaemura Zimunya
o Noemia de Sousa o Jack Mapanje o Steve Chimombo o Micere Mugo
o Okot p‟ Bitek o Niyi Osundare o Christopher Okigbo o Kofi Awoonor o Kojo Laing
(d) Elementary Level Seminars (1st
and 2nd
Year Levels)
Textual Migrations: Surveying Literature of South Asian Diasporas
(Undergraduate Course, Winter Semester, October 2008 – February 2009)
o V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas o M. G. Vassanji, No New Land o Hanif Kureishi, My Son the Fanatic o Peter Nazareth, In a Brown Mantle
o Bharati Mukherjee, Jasmine
(e) Elementary Level Seminars (1st
and 2nd
Year Levels)
Introduction to Contemporary African Writing (Undergraduate
Course, Summer Semester, April 2008 – July 2008)
ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL REFEREES
Prof. Dr. Dr. Russell West-Pavlov,
Englisches Seminar Department of English University of Tuebingen Wilhelm Street 50 72074 Tuebingen GERMANY [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Dominica Dipio, Department of Literature Makerere University Kampala
UGANDA [email protected]
Dr. Purity Nthiga Chairperson, Department of Literature, Linguistics Kenyatta University
P. O. Box 43844 - 00100 Nairobi KENYA
Prof. Egara Kabaji Department of Literature Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology Kakamega KENYA
Last updated: June, 2019
