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CURRICULUM VITAE (Partial) MAUREEN NGOZI EKE 912 Hopkins Avenue Department of English Mt. Pleasant, MI 48858 AN 240A Home: 989-773-8591 Central Michigan University Cell: 989-513-5736 Mount Pleasant, MI 48859 E-mail: eke1mn@cmich.edu Phone: 989-774-1087 Fax: 989-774-1271 EDUCATION 1994 Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington 1984 M.A. Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington 1979 Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria, B.A. (Hons.) English (passed with highest honors) 1979 Graduate Certificate in Education, Ahmadu Bello University Research Interests: African and African Diaspora Literatures; Comparative literature; Post-colonial Literatures and Theory; Women and Gender Studies; Postcolonial Theater and Drama; African Cinema; human rights through literature, art; and film; trauma studies Other interests: African Women and Development, Youth empowerment and education; diversity and team building/organizational management initiatives, conflict resolution; human rights and social justice; Diversity/Multiculturalism/Inter-culturalism EMPLOYMENT FACULTY & TEACHING EXPERIENCES Central Michigan University: Department of English (1995- Present): 2002: Full Professor (early promotion) 1999-2002: Associate Professor 1995-1999: Assistant Professor Courses: Graduate level: Eng 513B: Special topics: Women & Literature Eng 566: Human rights in literature, art, and film Eng 569: Seminar in Major World Writers: African and African-American writers Eng 602: Research Methods and Materials Eng 665D: Seminar in World Literature: African Literature and Postcolonial theory African, African American, and Caribbean Literatures Postcolonial Theory and Literatures Trauma and Narrative Human rights through Literature, art, and film

Eng 635D: Seminar in English Literature: Postcolonial Literature of the British Commonwealth & Ireland HUM 797: The Underground Railroad through Literature, Films, and History

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Undergraduate level: Eng 101: Freshman Composition Eng 134: Introduction to Literature Eng 141L Comics and Graphic Novels Eng 201: Intermediate Composition Eng 300: Study Abroad: Topics in English HONS 321: South Africa: Literature, Culture & History (three-week faculty-led study abroad course, 2014) Eng 323: Fantasy and Science Fiction Eng 326: Literary Dimensions of Film Eng 327: Women Writers Eng 329: African American Literature (also Honors offering, including Beaver Island summer program) Eng 329-BCTT: fall 1997 – spring 2001: special African American Literature ITV & Technology course with

University Arkansas, Pine Bluff under the BCTT project funded by the Kellogg foundation. Eng 333: Literatures of non-Western Cultures (a course I created, now part of the World Literature concentration and English Education elective) Eng 345: Studies in Authors: Toni Morrison Eng 395: Special Topics: “Third World” Literatures Eng 435: Studies in Texts: Testimony and Autobiography Eng 460: Senior Seminar: South Africa CGL 496: Senior Capstone Seminar (Culture and Global Studies Program) Student advising, including directing Undergraduate research projects and MA theses/projects: Some recently directed student learning

Plan B Committee Member, Master’s, “When Leadership Becomes Toxin in the United States

Army” Department of Political Science (May 2016) Advised: Evelyn M. Famutimi

Plan B Paper Reviewer, Master’s, “Imas Istiani, “Inside Out and Back Again” English Language

and Literature (April 2016) Plan B Paper Reviewer, Master’s, Heidi Ashcroft, “Anna Lee Walter’s Ghost Singer: The Enduring

Presence of Native American culture in today’s Modern World” English Language and Literature (April 2016)

Plan B Committee Chair, "Women in the Nigerian Civil War Literature: Facing the Politics of

Representation" English Language and Literature (September 2011 - May 2012). Advised: Emmanuel Akanwa

Plan B Committee Chair, "A Literary Vision of Algeria: Traumatic Memory" English Language and

Literature (January 2011 - May 2012). Advised: Imene Moulati

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Thesis Committee Member - Master's, "Law, Literature, and Critical theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach with Significant Applications and Implications" English Language and Literature (August 2011). Advised: Stefan Britt

Thesis Committee Member - Master's, English Language and Literature (May 2011).

Advised: Jonathon Bourgault Thesis Committee Chair - Master's, English Language and Literature (March 24, 2011).

Advised: Cajetan Iheka Thesis Committee Chair - Master's, "'An alternative Style of Womanhood: Depictions of African-

American Feminism in the Female Slave Narratives"" English Language and Literature (2009). Advised: Diane Hoover

Michigan State University: 1995 spring: Writing Instructor, Center of Excellence in Minority Health Education 1994 spring: Instructor, Eng 350 (African-American Literature: From Reconstruction to Present) Dept. of

English, Michigan State University 1991 fall: Instructor, Eng 363 (Introduction to African Literature) 1991: HUM 294 (Humanities in Africa), Team-taught with Prof. Kenneth Harrow, Dept. of English, also

served on the committee that created the course. The University of Wisconsin-Madison: 1994: Visiting Professor/Lead Instructor (director), "African Autobiography," US Department of Education

Summer Institute for Teachers, African Studies Center, (Summer) July 18-August 12 1993: Visiting Lecturer/Lead Professor (Director), African Literature, US Department of Education Summer

Institute for Teachers, African Studies Program, July 19-Aug. 13 Indiana University, Bloomington: 1986 spring: Assistant Instructor, C146 (and W143) Major Themes in World Literature (and English Composition), Comparative Literature Program 1984 – 1986: Language Tutor, (Igbo), African Studies Program 1984 spring: Assistant Instructor, C146 (and W143) Major Themes in World Literature (and English Composition), Comparative Literature Program 1983 fall: Assistant Instructor, C145 (and W143) Major Characters in Western Literature (and English Composition), Comparative Literature 1982 spring: Graduate Assistant, C216: Introduction to Satire and Science Fiction 1981 fall: Graduate Assistant, C216: Introduction to Satire and Science Fiction Overseas Experience: 2009 Teacher volunteer, Fatima Primary School, Namu, Plateau State, Nigeria, Nov. 16-19, 2009 2005 International Linkages, Beijing International Education Expo, Beijing, China, July 15-17. 2005 International Institutional Linkages –Asia: Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, and Tokyo, June 8 -20.

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2005 International Students’ recruitment, US Culture Center, US Embassy, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 2004 International Students’ recruitment and institutional linkages--Asia: Tours to Bangkok, Kuala

Lumpur, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo in March 2002 International student recruitment (Nigeria, visited several schools in Jos and Abuja, as well as the

American Educational Advising Center, American Embassy, Abuja). 2001 summer Volunteer, classroom guest visits, Our Lady of Fatima Girls School, Jos, Plateau State. 1989 winter Volunteer, Community health and literacy class, Catholic Mission, Rafewa, Kano, Nigeria. 1979 – 1980 Assistant Lecturer, Department of English, School of General Studies, Bayero University,

Kano. 1978 summer Assistant Employee Benefits Officer, Nigerian Airways, Kano. 1975 summer Camp Assistant Supervisor, Operation Feed the Nation Program, Kaduna. 1974 –1975 English tutor, Women’s Teachers’ College, Zonkwa, Kaduana State. 1974 English & Social Studies tutor, Magamiya Elementary School, Kaduna State. 1974 Volunteer, adult education classes, Catholic Mission, Magamiya, Kaduna State. 1971-1973 Volunteer, adult education teacher/assistant, St. Mary's Catholic Church, Fadan Kaje,

Kaduna State. SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES Books: Emerging Perspectives on Tess Osonye Onwueme. Africa World Press, Forthcoming Literature Resource Guide: An Introduction to Anglophone Literature 2017-2018. Mankato, MN: United

States Academic Decathlon, 2017. Web: http://www.usad.org/Home/brochure_ONLINE-(final).aspx (online).

Critical Insights: Beloved. Ipswich. Editor and contributor, collection of essays. MA: Salem Press, 2015. Co-editor (and contributor) with Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, Teaching Human Rights and Violence in African

Literature (Special Issue) Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA), Vol 9.1 summer 2014/spring 2015.

Co-editor (and contributor) with Simon K. Lewis and Abioseh M. Porter, Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA), Vol. 8.2 winter/spring 2014.

Co-editor with Maria Kruger and Mildred Mortimer, Research in African Literatures. Special Issue “Memory/History, Violence, and Reconciliation.” Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2012.

Co-editor with Lokangaka Losambe, Literature, the Visual Arts and Globalization in Africa and its Diaspora. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2011

Co-editor (and contributor) with Ernest N. Emenyonu, Emerging Perspectives on Nawal el Saadawi. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2010.

Co-editor with Ada Amaka Azodo, Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007.

Co-editor (and contributor) with Kenneth Harrow and Emmanuel Yewah, African Images: Recent Studies in Cinema and Text. Trenton, NJ: Africa world Press, 2000.

Co-editor (and contributor) with Susan Domowitz and Enoch Mvula, Cross Rhythms 3: Papers in African Folklore. Bloomington, Indiana: Trickster Press, 1989.

Selected Papers of the African Literature Association (as Series Editor) Cultural Dynamics of Globalization and African Literature. Sandra Dixon and Janice Spleth. Trenton: AWP

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(2015). Eco-imagination: African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability. Eds. Irène Assiba d’Almeida, Lucie

Viakinnou-Brinson, and Thelma Pinto. Trenton: AWP, 2014 Literature, the Visual Arts and Globalization in Africa and its Diaspora. Eds. Lokangaka Losambe and

Maureen N. Eke. Trenton: AWP: 2011. Book Chapters: “Bodies in Motion: Gestures ad Performance of Identity in Tess Onwueme’s Shakara.” Body Talk and

Cultural Identity in the African World. Ed. Augustine Agwuele. Sheffield & Bristol: Equinox, 2015: 94-108.

“The Inner Life of Beings: Failed Maleness and ‘Modern’ Love in Nawal El Saadawi’s Two Short Stories. Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi. Eds. Ernest Emenyonu and Maureen N. Eke. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2010. “(Re)Imagining Community: Olaudah Equiano and the (Re)Construction of Igbo (African) Identity in The

Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African. From a Glass Darkly: Equiano Olaudah and the Igbo World. Ed. Chima Korieh. Trenton, N.J: Africa World Press, 2009:

“Woubi Cheri: Negotiating subjectivity, Gender, and Power.” Gender and Sexuality in African Literature and Film. Eds. Ada Amaka Azodo and Maureen N. Eke. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2007.

“Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English.” Ken Saro-Wiwa, Writer and Political Activist. Eds. Craig McLuckie and Aubrey McPhail. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc, 2000.

“Diasporic Ruptures and (Re)membering History: Africa as Home and Exile in Anowa and The Dilemma of a Ghost.” Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. Eds. Ada Uzoamaka Azodo and Gay Wilentz. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1999.

"Revisioning African Drama to Include the Female Voice: Fatima Dike, a Revolutionary Dramatist." Doing Feminism: Teaching and Research in the Academy. Eds. Mary Anderson, et. al. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1999.

with Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson. “Towards a Theory of Orality in African Cinema.” African Cinema: Postcolonial and Feminist Readings. Ed. Kenneth Harrow. Trenton: NJ: Africa World Press, 1999.

with Tomaselli, Keyan G. “Classified People: Metaphorical Borders.” Keyan G. Tomaselli, Appropriating Images: The Semiotics of Visual Representation. Hojbjerg, Denmark: Intervention Press, 1996.

"From the Heart: Women and Liberation in New Writings by Black South African Women.” Working Papers. Women and International Development, East Lansing: Michigan State University, 1993.

"Folk Performance Traditions in African Theater." Cross Rhythms 3: Papers in African Folklore. Eds. Susan Domowitz, Maureen N. Eke, and Enoch Mvula. Bloomington, Indiana: Trickster Press, 1989.

Published Essays and Articles: (some) “Women and Indigenous Resistance in Tess Onwueme’s Tell It to Women and What Mama Said.”

Performing Identities: Celebrating Indigeneity in the Arts. Eds. G.N. Devy. Geoffrey V. Davis, and K.K. Chakravarty. London, New York, & New Delhi: Routledge, 2015: 318-343.

“In Conversation with Tess Osonye Onwueme.” Teaching Human Rights and Violence in African Literature (Special Issue) Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA), Vol 9.1 summer 2014/spring

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2015: 127-138. “Mandela’s Gift: Our Humanity.” Journal of the African Literature Association (JALA), Vol. 8.2 winter/spring

2014: 38-45. “In Memoriam: Morning, March 22, 2013, Charleston, South Carolina.” Chinua Achebe: Tributes and

Reflections. Eds. Nana Ayebia Clarke and James Currey. London: Ayebia Clarke Publishing, 2014: 144-150.

with Keyan Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson, “A Oralidade no Cinema Africano: Consideraҫões, Representaҫões e Relativismos.” África Um Continente no Cinema. Ed. Carolin Overhoff Ferreira. Sao Paulo: Editora Unifesp, 2014: 37-76. Republication

“Performing Africa in the American Midwest: Memories of Africa in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Song of Solomon.” Critical Insights: Midwestern Literature. Ed. Ronald Primeau. Ipswich: Salem Press, 2013:109-123.

“Journeying Down Freedom Road: the Underground Railroad and the narrative of travel / Maureen N. Eke.” Critical Insights: American Road Literature. Ed. Ronald Primeau, Ipswich, Salem Press, 2013: 231-247.

“Gender Politics, Home and Nation in Zulu Sofola’s King Emene: Tragedy of a Rebellion.” Reflections & Retrospectives. African Literature Today 30, 2012: 8-31.

with Marie Kruger and Mildred Mortimer, “Memory/History, Violence, and Reconciliation.” Research in African Literatures, Vol. 13.1 spring 2012: 65-69.

“Who Shall Silence the Drums? Another Women’s War.” “Introduction.” Osonye Tess Onwueme, What Mama Said. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2003.

with Tomaselli, Keyan G. “Film and Human Rights, Whose Interpretations, What Consequences?” Visual Anthropology 9, 1997: 353-365.

with Tomaselli, Keyan G. and P. Davison. “Transcending Prison as a Metaphor of Apartheid.” Visual Anthropology 9, 1997: 285-300.

“A Haunting Journey into Nigerian Culture, Politics, and History.” Africa Today, 1995: 42.4. with Keyan Tomaselli. "Secondary Orality in South African Film.” IRIS 18, 1995. with Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson. “Towards a Theory of Orality in African Cinema.”

Research in African Literatures (RAL) 1995: 26.3. with Keyan Tomaselli and Vincent Khapoya. “Changing This Country.” Visual Sociology 1995: 10.1. "Gender, Language and African Women's Writing." Callaloo 1992: 15.4. Daniel Anderson, The Origin of Life on Earth. Afrophile: Books on Africa. Washington, D.C: Africa Access,

1992. with Keyan Tomaselli. "The poet Mbuli speaks about his work, his politics and the role of art in the struggle

to free South Africa: The People's Poet.” South African Theatre Journal (SATJ) 1992: 6.2:95-96. with Keyan Tomaselli. "A tribute to two oral poets or imbongis involved in the anti-apartheid struggle."

Songololo: Voices of Change. South African Theatre Journal (SATJ) 1992: 6.2: 96-98. with Keyan Tomaselli. “South Africa: The Wasted Land.” South African Geographical Journal 1992: 74.1. Encyclopedia entries: “Langston Hughes: The Weary Blues.” Encyclopedia of Midwestern Literature (2016) “Wole Soyinka.” New Encyclopedia of Africa. Eds. John Middleton and Joseph C. Miller. Detroit: Charles

Scribner and Sons, 2008. “Buchi Emecheta.” Encyclopedia of African Literature. Ed. Simon Gikandi. New York: Routledge, 2002.

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“African Cinema.” Encyclopedia of African Literature. Ed. Simon Gikandi. New York: Routledge, 2002. “Tess Onwueme.” Encyclopedia of African Literature. Ed. Simon Gikandi. New York: Routledge, 2002. “Audre Lorde.” Civil Rights in the United States. Eds. Waldo E. Martin Jr. and Patricia Sullivan. New York:

Macmillan Reference, 2000. “Langston Hughes.” Civil Rights in the United States. Eds. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan. New

York: Macmillan References, 2000. “Colonialism.” Civil Rights in the United States. Eds. Waldo E. Martin, Jr. and Patricia Sullivan. New York:

Macmillan References, 2000. Reviews: 1997 “In Darkest Hollywood: Exploring the Jungles of Cinema’s South Africa,” October 8, 1997. <H-

Afrlitcine@H-net.msu.edu> (October 8). Non-academic works and publications: “African Women in the USA.” African Profiles Magazine May/June, 1995. “La Vie est Belle: Life is Rosy.” African Profiles Magazine October/November, 1995. Video "Yesterday Was Silent: culture, history, and social criticism." African Profiles Magazine June/July, 1995.

Scholarships and Fellowships: 2009 “(Re)Constructing a New Nation: Griqua Identity, Indigeneity, and History in Post-apartheid South

African Literature” (sabbatical, fall, $4500.00) 2008 “Constructing a New Nation: National, Memory, and History in Select Post-apartheid South African

Literature and Films.” Faculty Research and Creative Endeavors (FRCE) ($4,500, sabbatical). 2001 Summer Faculty Research Incentive Award, College of Humanities, Social & Behavioral

Sciences, Central Michigan University ($3000.00). 1998 “Postcolonial Literature and Theory,” NEH Summer Institute for University and College

faculty School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. 1997 “Teaching the History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1865-1965,” NEH Summer Institute

for University and College faculty, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, June 23 - July 25.

1993 MUCIA Travel scholarship to attend African Literature Association meeting at Guadeloupe, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

1991-1992: American Association of University Women (AAUW) Fellowship. 1991: MUCIA travel grants to attend Second Women's International Playwright Conference,

Glendon College, Toronto. l984 -1985: Title VI FLAS Fellowship (Swahili) 1984: Title VI (FLAS) Fellowship Bambara 1982 -1983: Title VI Foreign Language Fellowship (Swahili) 1980 -1982: PEO International Peace Organization Scholarship Videos and CD: 2004 CD for Study Abroad student recruitment (supervised production). 2004 CD for international students’ recruitment (wrote script and supervised production).

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2001 Script for Building Community through Technology (BCTT) Documentary Video, CMU. Works in Progress: Emerging Perspectives on Tess Onwueme Other Works: 1982 "Birds of a Feather" (unpublished One-Act Play) Indiana University, Bloomington. CONFERENCE PAPERS & INVITED LECTURES & CHAIRED PANEL 2017 “Human Trafficking 101.” Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, & Social Sciences (HRLASS): Focus

on Human Trafficking, Central Michigan University, Oct. 13 ---. with Lamia Sadek and Mary Henson Harrison, WILPF-US, “Empowering Indigenous Women and

Young Girls, Ending Economic Exploitation,” UN-CSW 61, March 14 2016 with Lamia Sadek and Mary Henson Harrison, WILPF-US, “What has the empowerment of Women

and Girls got to do with Sustainable Development? Perspectives from the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom US”

2015 “Negotiating Identity: Exploring Griqua Rights and First Nation Identities in a (Post)Apartheid State.” Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, & Social Sciences (HRLASS), Oct. 30-31

---. “Negotiating Post-colonial/apartheid identities: Griqua Indigeneity and the Politics of Representation.” 13th Annual conference, Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Jan. 10-13

---. “Girls and Rights,” (Issues and human rights committee sponsored panel). 41st. Annual Conference of the ALA, Bayreuth University, Germany, June 3-6l

2014: “Teaching South African Literature,” Roundtable, 40th. Annual Conference of the African Literature Association (ALA), WITS University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9-13 April

---. “Biafra, Memory, Trauma and the Struggle for Rights: Recovering Biafra in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun. 40th. Annual Conference of the ALA, WITS University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9-13 April

---. “Trauma, Representation and Rights,” organized panel. 40th. Annual Conference of the ALA, WITS University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9-13 April

---. “Children’s Literature in Africa: Children, History, and Tales Told II: Production,” chaired panel. 40th. Annual Conference of the ALA, WITS University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9-13 April

---. “Arrow of God at 50 II: Production, Mediation, Critical Reception and Impact.” Roundtable, 40th. Annual Conference of the ALA, WITS University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9-13 April

---. “Chinua Achebe—There was a Writer.” Roundtable, 40th. Annual Conference of the ALA, WITS University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 9-13 April

2013: “Teaching Liberation and Identity in African and Diasporic Literature and Films” (Teaching and Research Committee sponsored roundtable), 39th Annual Conference of the ALA, College of Charleston, March 20 -24

---. “Politics and Social Justice in African Fiction” (ALA Human right Committee sponsored panel), 39th Annual Conference of the ALA, College of Charleston, March 20-24

---. “Preparing for Tenure and Promotion at North American Academic Institutions” (ALA Executive Council sponsored panel), 39th Annual conference of the ALA, College of Charleston, March 20-24

---. “Narrating Liberation and Rights: Biafra and the Recovery of History in Chimamanda Adichie’s Half

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of a Yellow Sun.” 39th Annual Conference of the ALA, College of Charleston, Marh 20-24 ---. “Continuing the Dialogue: Keeping Our Work in the World,” Yari Yari Ntoaso: Continuing the

Dialogue, Accra, Ghana, May 16 -19 2012 “Performing Rights: Women and the Struggle for Rights in Tess Onwueme’s What Mama Said and

Then She Said It.” Human Rights, Literature, and the Visual Arts in Africa and the Diaspora." African Literature Association Annual Conference, SMU Dedman College, April 2012.

2012: Nollywood Women & Cultural Identity, "Nollywood and the Woman Palaver: Desperate Women, Bad Women, Witches, and Saints" Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria, May 8

2011: "Figurations of Women's Activism: Indigenous Resistance in Tess Onwueme's Tell It to Women and What Mama Said." International Conference of African Writers in Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Ethiopian Writers Association, The Ethiopian Writers Association, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 3, 2011.

---. “Contextualizing Women’s Identities in Zulu Sofola’s King Emene.” African Literature Association Annual Conference, Athens, Ohio, April 13-17.

---. Organized film screening and led discussion. Pushing the Elephant (Documentary 2010). African Literature Association Annual Conference, Ohio University, Athens, April 3-17

---. Organized and Chaired Panel “(En)gendering Silence: Violence Against Women.” Human Rights Forum #1. African Literature Association Annual Conference, Athens, Ohio, April 13 – 17

---. "African Poetry and Prose: Readings by Four African Women Writers." African Literature Association Annual Conference. Ohio University, Athens April 13-17

2010: “Toni Morrison’s Diasporic Imagination: Performing Memories of Africa in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon and Beloved.” Sixth Biennial Conference of the Toni Morrison Society, Paris, Nov. 4-7

---. “Langston Hughes, The Weary Blues and the Midwest.” Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, Michigan State University, East Lansing, May 13 – 15.

---. “Memory, History, and National healing in Zakes Mda’s Ways of Dying. African Literature Association Annual Conference, University of Arizona. Tucson, March 10 -14.

--- Organized and Chaired Panel: “Memory/History, Violence and Reconciliation.” African Literature Association Annual Conference, University of Arizona. Tucson, March 10 -14.

---. Organized and Chaired: “So You Want a Tenure Track Position? Navigating Faculty Job Interviews—Nuts and Bolts for Graduate Students.” African Literature Association Annual Conference, University of Arizona. Tucson, March 10 -14.

---. Chaired panel: “African Literature and Queer Theory: Gay and Lesbian Readings in African Literature.” African Literature Association Annual Conference, University of Arizona. Tucson, March 10 -14.

2009 Plenary Speaker, “Reclaiming the Land: Women Save the Earth in Onwueme’s What Mama Said &Then She Said It.” Osonye Tess Onwueme: Staging Women, Youth, Globalization and Eco-Literature. International Conference, Abuja, Nigeria, Nov. 11 – 14.

---. “Nollywood and the Woman Palaver: Desperate women, Bad women, Witches, “Sirens,” and

Saints.” Nollywood and Beyond. Transnational Dimensions of an African video industry. International Symposium. Guttenberg University, Mainz, Germany. May 13 – 16, 2009. Invited Guest presenter.

2008 “Of Memory, History, and Nation: J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and the construction of a new nation.” International Conference on the Humanities in Southern Africa UNISA Sunnyside Campus and the

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University of Pretoria, Pretoria, south Africa, 22-25 June 2008 ---. “Of Diasporic Belonging and Homecoming: Rootedness in Emecheta’s Kehinde and The New

Tribe. Unsettling Women: Contemporary Women’s Writing and Diaspora.” The Second Biennial Conference of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Network. University of Leicester, UK, 11-13 July, 2008 (unable to attend due to funding)

---. Guest lecturer, “Research and Ethics Clearance,” Graduate Research Seminar. CCMS, University of Kwazulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa, April 4

---. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: An African Autobiography,” Guest Lecture, Seminar in Autobiography, Department of English, UKZN, Durban, March 14

---. Guest faculty, “The Writing Process: Structural and organizational issues in research.” Graduate Research Seminar, UKZN, Durban, March 14

---. English 636, “Problems in Critical Theory,” Seminar in Critical Problems (Dr. Ron Primeau), CMU spring

---. “Writing and Publishing in the Diaspora—Away from Home: African Writers Telling Their Experiences.” Roundtable discussion. (Chair) African Literature Association Annual Conference. Western Illinois University, Macomb, April 22-27, 2008.

---. “Gender and Sexuality in Tess Onwueme’s Tell It to Women and Shakara: Dance Hall Queen.” Gender, Sexuality, and Cultural Identity in Tess Onwueme’s Plays. (Chair) African Literature Association Annual Conference. Western Illinois University, Macomb, April 22-27, 2008.

---. “What’s Wrong with Human Rights Films? Part 1.” African Literature Association Annual Conference. Western Illinois University, Macomb, April 22-27, 2008.

2007: “Claiming Voice: Migration, Gender, and Subjectivity in African Women’s Writing,” 123rd. MLA Annual Convention, Chicago. ---. “Daughter of Diaspora: (Re)Covering Diasporic Memory, History and Culture: Maryse Condé’s I Tituba,” Association for the Study of Worldwide Africa Diaspora, Barbados. ---. “Re(member)ing” the Middle Passage: Robert Hayden, Nicolas Guillen, and Herbert Woodward Martin,” The Society for the Study of Mid-Western Literatures Annual Conference, MS, East Lansing. 2006: “Big Conversation: Home and Exile,” Mythic Journeys Conference, Atlanta (invited guest

presenter). ---. “Trial by Fire,” Mythic Journeys Conference, Atlanta (invited guest presenter). ---. “Resisting the Erasure of Slavery: Ama Ata Aiddo’s (Re)Covery of Diasporic Memory in Anowa and

The Dilemma of a Ghost,” African Literature Association Annual Conference, Ghana. 2004 Respondent, “(Re)Negotiating Identity through Poetics of Memory,” African Studies Association

Annual Meeting, New Orleans. ---. “Through Gendered Eyes: Sembene Ousmane’s Faat Kine,” African Literature Association 30th

Anniversary Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin (presenter & chair). ---. “Building the African Literature Division of the Modern Language Association,” African Literature

Association 30th Anniversary Conference, Madison, Wisconsin. ---. “Diversity and Democracy,” AAHE Learning to Change Conference, San Diego, California 2003 “Collective Memory and National (re)Configuration: Reconstructing History and Identity in Zoe

Wicomb’s David’s Story,” “Of Lighthouse and Libraries: History Relit,” African Literature Association Annual Conference, Alexandria, Egypt.

---. “Creating an Equitable Classroom Culture that Supports Engaged Learning: Diversity and Equity in

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the Classroom,” 16th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE), San Francisco, California.

---. National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI) Prejudice Reduction workshop (with Dr. Ulana Klymyshyn and Lisa Tiger), 16th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE), San Francisco. California.

---. “Creating a Classroom Culture that Supports Learning: Infusing Diversity into the Curriculum,” The Third International Conference in Diversity in Organisations, Hawaii.

2002 “Tess Onwueme: Revisioning the African Diaspora,” African Studies Association 45th Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

---. “Crossing Borders: Anglophone Meets Francophone Literary Studies,” African Intersections 1: Anglo-Franco-Lusophone Literatures, MLA Convention, New York.

---. “Writing Africa: Comparative African and European Palavers and Perspectives.” Literature, Race, and Rights: Teaching and Learning in Collaborative Contexts (NEH Seminars and Institutes offered for school teachers with Dr. Thomas Adam, NEH, Division of Educational Programs), College Language Association Convention, Memphis, TN.

---. “A Dance of Bats: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Woubi Cheri,” African Literature Association (ALA) Annual Conference, San Diego, California (presenter & chair)

---. “Pedagogy and the Curriculum: Syllabi for the Humanities,” Equity in the Classroom XII Conference.

2001 “Casting Gender and Sexuality in African Women’s Drama: Tess Onwueme’s Shakara: Dance Hall Queen,“ Gender and Sexuality in African Literatures, MLA Convention, New Orleans (sponsored by the African Literature Division of the MLA).

---. “Performing Culture and Experience: African Women Playwrights as Critics and Translators of Culture and Society--Zulu Sofola and Ama Ata Aidoo,” ALA Annual Conference, Richmond, VA.

---. “The Impact and Challenges of Technology in the Classroom,” AAHE 9th Annual Conference on Faculty roles and Rewards: The Changing Professoriate: New Technologies, New Generation, Tampa, Florida.

2000 “Woubi Cheri: Negotiating Subjectivity, Gender, and Power,” MLA Convention, Washington, D.C.---. “Recalling tastes of homecoming: Tess Onwueme’s African Legacies and Diasporic Returns,”

African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Conference, Nashville, TN. ---. “Writing Home: Narrating Africa and Africans in The Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,”

African American Literature and Culture Studies Association, Salt Lake City. ---. “Performing Africa: (Re)constructing Home in the Drama of African Diasporic Women,” ALA

Conference, Lawrence, Kansas. ---. “African Women Writers: Notes from the Margins,” ALA Conference, Lawrence, Kansas. ---. “Building Community Through Technology,” Horizons 2000 New Technologies for Teaching and

Learning, VCCS New Horizons Regional Conference, Richmond, VA. ---. “(Re)locating Identity: The Self and Home in African Women’s Writing,” Twentieth-Century

Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Kentucky. 1999 “Reinventing African Literary Criticism: New Readers and ‘Others:’ Will Success Spoil African

Literature? Pitfalls of Global Readings and Heterogenous Theoretical Approaches,” MLA Convention, Chicago (sponsored by the African Literature Division).

---. “Narrating Nation, Gender, and Landscape in African Women’s Autobiography: Sindiwe Magona’s To My Children’s Children,” African Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia.

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---. "Building Community Through Technology (BCTT): The Case of CMU-UAPB Faculty Teaching Diversity Through Interactive Television," National Conference on Ethnicity in Higher Education, Memphis.

---. "Unbelonging: The Unhomeliness of Returning to a Native Land in Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde and Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost," African Literature Association Annual Conference, Fes, Morocco.

1998 “The Politics of Gender in African, African American, and Afro-Caribbean Literatures,” African Literature Association Conference: Multiculturalism and Hybridity in African Literature, Austin, TX.

1997 "Recovering . . . Voices: Migration, Gender, and Self-Narration in African Women's Writing,” African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio.

---. "Images of Contemporary Africa and Africans in American Film and Video Culture," Understanding the Dynamics of Contemporary Africa: Beyond the Stereotypes and Images: A NAFSA Professional Development Workshop sponsored by African Studies Center, Office of International Students and Scholars, and Office of Study Abroad, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

---. “Women in African Cinema,” African Film and Videotape in the Arts and Humanities Curriculum, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

---. “Diasporic Ruptures and (Re)membering History: African as Home and Exile in Anowa and The Dilemma of a Ghost,” Soup and Substance, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant.

---. “Teaching African Cinema,” African Literature Association 1997 Conference: FESPACO Nights in Michigan: African Film and Literature, East Lansing (presenter & chair).

---. “Monday’s Girls: Negotiating gender issues and ethnography,” African Literature Association Annual Conference: FESPACO Nights in Michigan: African Film and Literature, East Lansing.

1996 “Sociopolitical awakening in Ken Saro Wiwa’s Sozaboy,” African Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

---. “Changing Their Own Lives: migration and self-transformation in African women’s writing,” African Literature Association Conference, SUNY, Stony Brook (presenter & chair).

1995 “Politics and (Re)visioned societies: Farah’s Sweet and Sour Milk and Uwazurike’s Yesterday Was Silent,” African Studies Association Meeting, Orlando (presenter and chair).

---. "African literatures, cultures, and history," presentation to Multicultural Studies class, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

---. "Wole Soyinka's Ake: childhood, politics and culture," Integrative Humanities Class, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

---. "Women's Stories: (re) inscription and (un)articulated voices in Fatima Dike's The Sacrifice of Kreli and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions," African Literature Association Conference, Columbus (presenter & chair).

---. "Black Women's Writing: Sisterhood Cross-culturally," Black Women Writers' Conference, University of Michigan, Flint.

1994 "Women Performing Women: Culture of Speech in African and African-American Women's Drama," The Urban Milieu and the Power of Performance, African Studies Association, Toronto.

---. "Approaches to African Literature in the Curriculum," African Studies Association, Toronto. ---. "African Women: gender, politics and culture," African and Third World Women, One World

Conference, Macomb Community College. ---. Introduction to African literature," general information and resource session on Africa for two and

four-year college teachers, sponsored by Michigan Community College for Global Education

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(MCCGE), Dewitt, Michigan. ---. Guest lecture and conversation sessions with the faculty and students on African Literature and

cultures, Diversity Workshop, Macomb Community College, Macomb, Michigan. ---. "African Women's Writing: An Overview," African Area Studies, Integrative Studies in Arts and

Humanities, MSU, East Lansing. ---. Respondent for Alice Walker's Warrior Marks: "Women Depicting Women," CASID and

International Film Series, MSU, East Lansing. 1993 "Gender and Autobiography: Mariama Ba's So Long a Letter, Guest Lecture, Multicultural

Literature Class, Department of English, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant. ---. “Teaching African Literature,” Curriculum workshop for teachers, African Studies Association

Meeting, Boston. ---. "Through Women's Eyes: Gender Relations in African Women's Writing," Global Studies

Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing. ---. "Constructing African Women's Identities: Realities and Myths." International Conference,

Manchester College, North Manchester, Indiana. ---. "Being South African: Culture and Nationalism in Fatima Dike's The Sacrifice of Kreli," "Nationalism

and Culture in Africa: Oral and Written Literatures," African Studies Faculty Wednesday Seminar, Indiana University, Bloomington.

---. "African Women's Writing in the U.S. College Curriculum." Midwest Institutes' International Curriculum and Development Conference, Kalamazoo.

---. "Distortions and Revisions of Africa in Adrienne Kennedy and Ama Ata Aidoo's Drama." African Literature Association Conference, Guadeloupe.

---. "Encountering America: Perceptions of the Other," African Women in America/American Women in Africa conference, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York.

---. "Representations of Africa in the U.S.: Alternative Imaging," International Institute, Flint. 1992 Discussion and performance of African stories and theater for the Council for the Performing Arts

for Children, Grand Rapids, MI ---. "The Female Voice in African Women's Literature," Global Awareness Week, Alpena Community

College, Alpena, MI. ---. "Teaching and Performing Shakespeare in Africa," Global Awareness Week, West Shore

Community College Theater class, Scotville, MI. ---. "African Women and Development: 1975-Present," Global Awareness Week, Petoskey

Community College, Petoskey, MI. ---. "Representations of Women in the Writings of African and African American Women: Gender and

Power," "Women and Cultural Change," Global Awareness Week, Mid Michigan, Community College, Harrison, MI

---. "African Oral Traditions and Literature in the U.S. Classroom," Workshop for teachers, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.

---. "Women Have No Mouth? Gender and Politics in Sofola's Drama," African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.

---. "Rethinking Identity: A Reading and discussion of African Women's Literature," Women and International Development (WID) Brown Bag, East Lansing, MI

---. "Building God's Household: American Perceptions of Africa," (invited lecture) Christian Educators Association Conference, Grand Rapids, MI.

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---. "Oral Traditions in African Literature," (invited lecture) Children's Literature class, English Department, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI.

1992 "Women and Public (Political) Space in Zulu Sofola's Plays," African Studies Brown Bag Lecture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

--. "African Oral Traditions across the Diaspora," Cultural Encounters: 500 Years of African, and Hispanic Traditions, Michigan Humanities Council, ROADS Summer Institute, Detroit, MI.

--. "Issues in African Women's Literature," African Culture Week, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

1991 "Community and Social Education in Zulu Sofola's The Disturbed Peace of Christmas," African Studies Association Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO.

---. "Politics of Gender: Women's Voices in African Drama," African Studies Summer Series, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI.

---. "African Literature and the Classroom," The Colonial Experience: A Framework for Teaching Non-Western History, Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers of History, National Humanities Center, Research Park Triangle, NC.

---. "Exclusion and Gender Politics in Zulu Sofola's King Emene and Old Wines Are Tasty" WID Brown Bag Seminar, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

---. “From the Heart: Women & Liberation in New Writings by Black South African women," African Literature Association Annual Conference, New Orleans.

1990 "Theater for the People, Theater for Education: Women Playwrights and the Revision of African Theater," African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore.

---. "Africa in American Literature," R.O.A.D.S. In-service Teachers' Seminar: "Images of Africa: A Multi-Media, Art, and Literature Approach to Teaching about Africa," sponsored by African Studies in collaboration with the Michigan Humanities Council, The Cultural Center, Detroit, MI.

---. "Revisioning African Literature to Include the Female voice: Fatima Dike a Revolutionary Dramatist," Mid-west Women’s Studies Conference, Michigan State University.

---. "The Power of the Words: the Politics of Language use in African Drama," African Literature Association Conference, Madison, Wisconsin.

---. "African Women and Development: Perspectives through Literature," Michigan League of Women Voters, Jackson, MI.

---. "Women, Family, and Work: A Look at the African Woman in Development in Nigeria," Single Parent Institute, Lansing, Michigan.

1989 "Teaching Africa through Literature and the Other Arts," International Awareness Conference, Macomb Community College, Macomb, MI.

---. "African Women, Culture, and the Arts," presented at (6) six Great Lakes Community Colleges for "African Awareness Week, "Michigan.

---. "Women's Activism and Change in Nigeria," Women and International Development, East Lansing. ---. In Search of Our Own Spaces: Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood Revisited," African

Literature class, Mary Grove College, Detroit. ---. "African Women and Development," Third World Women and Development Seminar, Delta

College, Saginaw, MI. 1988 "Revolutionary Ideology in the Theater of Ngugi wa Thiong'o," 26th Modern Literature Conference:

Third World, Diaspora and Revolution, East Lansing. ---. "South African Literature 1: Literary Aesthetics," 26th Modern Literature Conference: Third World,

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Diaspora, and Revolution, East Lansing ---. "Folk Performance Traditions in African Theater: Soyinka, Ngugi, Clark and Credo Mutwa," African

Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. ---. "African Literature for Children: the Jafta Series Revisited and Journey to Jo'burg," African Studies

Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. ---. "Introducing Africa into the Social Studies Classroom through African Literature," Michigan Council

for the Social Studies, Southfield, MI (workshop). ---. "Traditions and Translations: African Literature, Folk Literature, and African Language Literatures,"

African Literature Association Annual Conference, Pittsburgh (presenter & chair). 1987 "African Women and Development" (invited lecture) Delta College, Bay City, MI 1985 "Growing Up in an African Family and Teaching about Africa with a Global Perspective," The Great

Lakes Regional Conference, The National Council for the Social Studies, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. ---. "The Changing Roles of Women in Africa: Approaches Through Literature," Third World Women's

Forum, Indiana University, Bloomington. 1984 "Decision-making in Nigeria: Three Perspectives," Indiana Council for the Social Studies Annual

Meeting, Indiana University, Bloomington. 1983 "Literature and Society: The Political and Socio-economic Role of Women in Nigeria," Honors

lecture, St. Mary of the Woods College, Terre Haute, Indiana. ORGANIZED & DIRECTED CONFERENCES, INSTITUTES, SEMINARS, & WORKSHOPS 2018 “Human Trafficking: What do You Know?” Information session presented on behalf of the

Clare/Gratiot/Isabella (CGI) Human Trafficking Coalition, the Harrison Chamber of Commerce, 2017 Convener, Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences (HRLASS): Special Focus on

Human Trafficking, Central Michigan University, October 13 ---. Convener, Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences (HRLASS): Spotlight on Human

Trafficking, Central Michigan University, March 3 2015 Convener, Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences (HRLASS): an International

Conference. Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Oct. 30-31 2013 Convener, Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences (HRLASS): an International

Conference. Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Nov. 21-23 2012 Coordinator, Thesis and Plan B Paper Workshop, CMU English Department, Jan. 22 2011 Convener, Human Rights, Literature, the Arts, and Social Sciences (HRLASS): an International

Conference. Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Nov. 11-14 2009 Convener, Osonye Tess Onwueme: Staging Women, Youth, Globalization and Eco-Literature.

International Conference, Abuja, FCT, Nigeria, Nov. 11 – 14 2007: “Writing Africa: Comparative African and European Palavers,” three-week NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers, Central Michigan University, July 9-July 27. 2005 “Indigenous survival; Education for the 21st. Century, CMU Campus Forum, October 2005 2004 “Conversations on Brown v. Board of Education:” 3rd. Annual Forum on Diversity, October 2004 (a

celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education). 2004 “Writing Africa: Comparative African and European Palavers,” Five-week NEH Summer Seminar

for School Teachers, Central Michigan University, June 28-July 30. 2003 Diversity and Responsible Leadership: 2nd Annual Campus Forum on Diversity, September ---. “Creating a Classroom Climate that Supports Engaged Learning: 1st. Annual Campus Forum on

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Diversity,” Central Michigan University, March 28 2002 “Writing Africa: Comparative African and European Palavers,” Five-week NEH Summer Seminar

for School Teachers, Central Michigan University, June 24-July 26. 2000 with John Pfeiffer, Sr. and John Pfeiffer, Jr., African American Literature and Culture Studies: A

Venture for Elementary and University Students,” Midland Foundation. 1999 “Writing Africa: Chinua Achebe, Joyce Cary, and Joseph Conrad, and Wole Soyinka,” Five-week

NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers, Central Michigan University, July 5 – August 6. 1997 (co-organized with Kenneth Harrow, MSU) FESPACO Nights in Michigan: African Film and

Literature, African Literature Association Annual Conference, Michigan University, East Lansing, April 16 – 19.

1996 Coauthor and co-director, “Comparative Studies of Colonialism: The Colonial Experience and its Aftermath in Africa,” NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers, Michigan State University, East Lansing.

1995 “South Africa Revisited,” Workshop for Lansing area teachers, April 27. ---. “Current Political Crises in Africa: Pan-Africanist Perspectives,” Teachers’ Weekend Seminar,

Michigan State University, March 4. 1993-94 "Collaboratives for Humanities and Arts Teaching" (CHART), Michigan Humanities Council

ROADS project 1993 "Imagine Africa: The (Un)changing Image of Africa in the U.S. Media; Implications for Teaching,"

Michigan State University, April 29-31. ---. a three-week African culture project for Forest Hills Public Schools Cultural Arts Program, Grand

Rapids, Michigan ---. Workshop 2 on African Oral Traditions, Highland Park School District, Jackson, MI, March 25 ---. Workshop #1 on African Oral Traditions: A Comparison with African-American Folk Tales, Highland

Park School District, Jackson, MI, February 11. 1992 "Global Interdependence and Multiculturalism," Grosse Pointe Public Schools, May 7. ---. "Afrocentrism in the American Curriculum," Michigan State University, April 11. 1990 "Images of Africa: A Multi-Media, Art, and Literature Approach to Teaching About Africa,"

R.O.A.D.S. In-service Teachers' Seminar, sponsored by the African Studies Center, Michigan State University in collaboration with the Michigan Humanities Council, The Cultural Center, Detroit, October 13.

---. "Teaching Africa in U.S. Classrooms Through the Arts," MSU, East Lansing, April 28 1989 "Special Workshop for Teachers: Teaching African Geography," MSU, (co-sponsored by the

Michigan Geographic Alliance), December 2. ---. "Cultural Issues in the teaching of African Geography," Teachers' In-service Geography Workshop,

Pontiac, MI, August 30. 1988 "Introducing Africa into the Social Studies Classroom Through African Literature," Michigan Council

for the Social Studies, Southfield, MI. ---. "Africa in the Social Studies Classroom through the Humanities," MSU, November 25 ---. "Issues in African Development," One-day Teacher in-service workshop for Livonia, MI Public

Schools, April. ---. "Africa 1& 2: Teacher In-service workshops," Parkside Upper Elementary, Jackson, Michigan,

January 28 and March 17 respectively. 1987 "Current Issues in Sub-Saharan Africa: One-day Teacher Seminar," Michigan State University,

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East Lansing, October 31. Academic Administrative Experience Central Michigan University (2002- 2006) 2003 - 2006 Associate Vice President for Diversity and International Education 2002 - 2003 Interim Associate Vice President for Institutional Diversity Chief Diversity/International Education Officer and Senior Administrator responsible for implementing the university’s “Strategic Plan for achieving diversity,” increasing diversity and fostering an educational “community that values and promotes diversity” and international education. My specific responsibilities included: Supervising six diversity units: Gay/Lesbian Programs, Minority Student Services, Multicultural

Education Center, Native American Programs, Student Disability Services, Women Studies; Supervising the Office of International Education, which houses Study Abroad, International

Faculty, Scholars, and Student services (2003- 2006); Designing or overseeing the development and implementation of programs and initiatives for

faculty, staff, and students which support institutional diversity and campus internationalization; Principal Investigator and Director for two large Federal grant programs: “GEAR UP” (Flint) and

“Upward Bound” (Detroit); Principal Investigator/Director of State GEAR UP grant (Flint)and KCP; Principal Investigator/Director of two National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer

Seminars for School teachers (see CV); Chair, President’s Advisory Council on Affirmative Action and Campus Equity; Chair, Campus Climate Committee & initiated the first Campus Climate Report Card at CMU Served as Campus ADA Coordinator and chair of ADA Committee; Served on Central Michigan University’s Vision 2010 Plan’s Priority 2 (Diversity &

Internationalization) Committee; Serving on the Honor’s Program Council; Working with local community leaders and organization to foster and improve cooperation between

the university and the community on diversity and related issues; Serving on various institutional bodies/committees; Developing linkage and academic agreements with international educational institutions and other

overseas agencies; Developing the President’s Undergraduate Scholarships for International undergraduate students;

Specific accomplishments: During my administrative tenure as the AVP for Diversity and International Education, I also accomplished the following: Re-submitted a five-year Upward Bound grant proposal (2003-2007) ($703,872/yr) Re-submitted GEAR Up grant (approximately, $5m.); Submitted grant and directed NEH Summer Seminar for school teachers 2004 ($92,106); Initiated/established CMU’s annual Campus Diversity Forum (2007)

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Supervised/coordinated the development of CMU’s Accommodation of Religious Obligations Policy (see policy at: cmich.edu/office_provost/OID/ODE/resources/Pages/Religious_Holidays.aspx

Initiated and established CMU’s Interfaith Calendar (see above); Supervised/coordinated the creation of CMU’s Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday no-class

day of activities; Initiated SEED, a faculty development summer workshop and academic year support group on

infusing diversity and internationalization into the curriculum; Initiated and chaired adhoc Task Force on International Education; developed a strategic plan for

internationalizing Central Michigan University; Created (implemented by Native American Program’s director, Matthew Van Alstine in 2005) the

North American Indigenous Summer Enrichment Camp now funded under the CMU Vision 2010 Plan (ttps://www.cmich.edu/office_provost/OID/NAP/Pages/NAISEC.aspx);

Established the Academic and Career Empowerment (ACE) Program, a six-week summer program under Minority Student Services;

Initiated/implemented CMU’s Report Card on the Status of Diversity at Central Michigan University; Worked to change CMU’s administration of the Michigan Indian Tuition Waiver.

Michigan State University, East Lansing 1994 –1995: Project Director/Editor, African Media Program funded through the U.S. Dept. of Education

Title VI grant. My responsibilities included: Establishing the African Media Program; administered program, including supervision of graduate

and undergraduate students affiliated with the program; editing African Media Program film reviews, and grant writing

l986 –1995: Associate Outreach Coordinator and Coordinator of the Educational Resource Center. My responsibilities included:

Co-directing African Studies Outreach Programs; Directing Educational Resource Center; Supervising African and African-American Outreach Liaison Program; Coordinating annual African Culture Festival; Working with visiting African faculty of the African Linkage program; Developing African Studies educational programs for area schools and organizations; Providing on-site and telephone support on the development of African & African American studies

curriculum; Assisting Michigan State University faculty, students, and non-MSU educators with African Studies

research resources and provided media support on Africa; Coordinating two annual on-campus teacher in-service workshops/seminars and off-campus

workshops; Working with Michigan Humanities Council, Michigan Social Studies Council, & Michigan

Geographic Alliance on curriculum, in-service workshops and mini-conferences on African studies; Working with GLICA (Great Lakes Inter-Collegiate Association) & GLIMUN (Great Lakes Inter-

Collegiate Model UN) to organize their respective programs; Providing academic and human resources on African studies to High School student participants of

Model United Nations and Model OAU (Organization of African Unity) sponsored by GLICA and GLIMUN;

Implementing and directing an African Studies educational program for Jackson Correctional

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Facilities offered through Spring Arbor College, Jackson; Serving as faculty Adviser for the Southern African Liberation Committee (SALC); and Mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, including several international students.

1986 – 1995 Founder & Editor, ELIMU, Outreach Newsletter, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing Indiana University, Bloomington: 1984 –1985: Assistant Coordinator, Outreach Program, African Studies Program, Indiana University, Bloomington GRANTS: External: 2013: Race, Space, and the Agony of Detroit, Michigan Humanities Council ($1000) 2012: Exploring human rights through the humanities, MHC ($6000.00, unfunded) ** 2010: African Voices: Letters of Petition from Colonial Nigeria ($119,408.80, unfunded) ** 2007: NEH Faculty summer (2008) stipend ($4000) 2006-07: NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers: Writing Africa: Comparative African and Western

“Palavers.” ($224,897.80) 2006-07: Project T.E.A.C.H ($99.686.40) 2006-07: GEAR UP Michigan: Reaching the Urban Centers (236,073.72) 2006-07: Project Ingenuity NCCEP/SBC for Flint GEAR UP (99,347.60) 2006-07: Empowerment Program: The Academic & Career Empowerment Program ($1000.00) 2006-07: Upward Bound Year 4: Building Our Future Together: CMU/Northern High School (234,623.52) 2006: GEAR UP Flint: Pursuing Excellence through Education ($5,325,775.92, unfunded) ** 2005-2006: Bank One/J.P. Morgan Chase, Rising Star award for Detroit Upward Bound ($20,000) 2005-06: GEAR UP Federal ($471,821) 2005-06: GEAR UP Michigan ($221,242) 2004-05: GEAR UP Federal ($471,821) 2004-05: GEAR UP Michigan ($228,855) 2004-05: NCCEP/SBC for Flint GEAR UP ($49,386) 2004-05: Bank One Rising Star for Detroit Upward Bound ($12,000) 2003-04: GEAR UP Federal ($421,268) 2003-04: GEAR UP Michigan ($210,376) 2003-04: Bank One Rising Star Summer Math Program for Detroit Upward Bound ($12,000.00)

2003-04: NEH 2004 Summer Seminar for School Teachers ($92,108.00) 2002-03: GEAR UP Federal ($352,587)

2002-03: GEAR UP Michigan ($227,490.78) 2003-2007: Upward Bound: US Department of Education ($703,872) 2002-2003: Upward Bound, U.S. Department of Education, continuation

2001-2002: NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers ($77, 779.00) 2000: with John Pfeiffer, Sr. and John Pfeiffer, Jr., “African American Literature and Culture Studies: A

Venture for Elementary and University Students.” Midland Foundation ($3000.00)

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1998-1999: NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers, “Writing Africa: Chinua Achebe, Joyce Cary, and Joseph Conrad, and Wole Soyinka” ($71, 216.00)

1996: Co-author and co-director, NEH Summer Institute, “Comparative Studies of Colonialism: The Colonial Experience and its Aftermath in Africa,” Michigan State University, ($113,000.00)

Other: 1987-1995: Grant-writing for Title VI funding, African Studies Center, Michigan State University. Co-author of U.S. Department of Education grant proposal for Africa on Film, Videotape, and Audio-Visual

Materials (1994-1997). Co-author of NEH Reference Material Program grant for African Media Project (1996-1999). Internal Grants (CMU): 2008” (Re)Constructing a New Nation: Griqua identity, Indigeneity, and History in Post-apartheid South

African Literature ($4500.00) 2007: “Constructing a New Nation: National, Memory, and History in Select Post-apartheid South African

Literature and Films.” Faculty Research and Creative Endeavors (FRCE) grant ($4,500). 2007: “Daughter of Diaspora: (Re)Covering Diasporic Memory, History and Culture: Maryse Condé’s I

Tituba.” FRCE ($600). 2002: “A Dance of Bats: Negotiating Gender and Sexuality in Woubi Cheri.” FRCE, ($550.00).

2002: “Performing Culture and Experience: African Women Playwrights as Critics and Translators of Culture.” FRCE ($600.00).

2001-2002: “Telling It Like It is . . . (Un)Covering National and African Diasporic Legacies: Black Women Dramatists Writing Home, Identity, and History.” FRCE ($4,150.00).

2001: “Oral Narratives of Nigerian Women,” Faculty International Development Grant, Office of International Education ($2500.00).

2000: “Narrating Nation, Gender, and Landscape in African Women’s Autobiography.” FRCE ($600.00). 1999: with John Pfeiffer, Sr. and John Pfeiffer, Jr. “African American Literature and Culture Studies: a

Venture for Elementary School and University Students.” CMU Diversity Incentive Grant ($3000.00). 1999: “Unbelonging: The Unhomeliness of Returning to the ‘Native Land’ in Buchi Emecheta’s Kehinde and

Ama Ata Aidoo’s The Dilemma of a Ghost.” FRCE ($850.00). 1998: “Recovering Voices: Migration, Gender, and Self-narration,” FRCE ($400.00). 1996: African Literature Association Annual Conference, Stony Brook, NY, FRCE ($550.00). 1995: African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, FRCEy ($534.00). STUDENT PROGRAMS ESTABLISHED North American Indigenous Students Educational Camp Academic and Career Empowerment (ACE) Some CONSULTANCIES 2000 African Cinema: Keita, Guest Lecture, Global Awareness Week, Northwestern Michigan College,

Traverse City, October 25. 2000 African Cinema: Le Franc, Guest Lecture, Global Awareness Week, Kirtland Community College,

October 11. 2000 African Cinema: Keita, Guest Lecture, West Shore Community College, Global Awareness Week,

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Ludington and North Central Michigan College, Petoskey, October 5. 1999 EDsitement, Internet workshop for NEH Summer Seminar, “Writing Africa,” July 8 & 13. 1997 “Images of Contemporary Africa and Africans in American Film and Video Culture,” Understanding

the Dynamics of Contemporary Africa: Beyond the Stereotypes and Images: A NAFSA Professional Development Workshop sponsored by African Studies Center, Office of International Students and Scholars, and Office of Study Abroad. Michigan State University, East Lansing, October 17 – 19.

1997 “Women in African Cinema,” African Film and Videotape in the Arts and Humanities Curriculum, The African Media Program, African Studies Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, November 6 – 8.

1996 “Comparative Studies of Colonialism: The Colonial Experience and its Aftermath in Africa,” NEH Summer Institute for Teachers, MSU, East Lansing, July – August.

1996 Institute Faculty, NEH sponsored Summer Institute: African American Texts (Culture-History-Literature-Music-Art), Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, June 24 - 28.

1996 Teachers’ Institute on African History, Culture, and Humanities in the Virgin Islands Curriculum, sponsored by the Virgin Islands Humanities Council, March 6 – 9.

1996 & 1995 Language Consultant, School District of Saginaw, Michigan for Growth and Afrocentric Program (GAP).

1995 Teachers’ workshop, "Africa: Struggling Toward the 21st. Century," 5th. Annual Summer Program on International Affairs, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June 22-23.

1995 4-H Program, Mason County Schools, Michigan (African cultures and storytelling program) 1995 Grand Rapids Council for the Performing Arts for Children. 1994 Ann Arbor Arts Association, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1993 African Literature Guest Lecturer, NEH African Studies Summer Institute, Natrona County Schools,

Casper, Wyoming (August 4-7). 1991 African Literature Guest Lecturer, NEH Summer Institute, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Awards 2017 Michigan Distinguished Professor of the Year Award nominee 2017 CMU President Research Excellence Award nominee 2016 Elizabeth Sidall Human Rights Award, Michigan Education Association (MEA) 2012 Teaching Excellence Award nominee 2011 CMU Woman of the Year Nominee 2011 (spring) Faculty Alternative Assignment (reduced teaching) 2007 fall, nominated for Teaching Excellence Award, Central Michigan University. 2006 Award in recognition for invaluable service and contributions to diversity, multiculturalism &

International Education at CMU 1998 Sigma Tau Delta (English Honors Society) Teaching Award, Central Michigan University. 1993 Teaching Excellence Award, African Literature Summer Institute participants, University of Wisconsin-Madison. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2017 Re-Train the Trainer workshop on Human Trafficking, MHTTF (fall)

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2017 NEA Women’s Caucus Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (fall) 2017 NEA Summer Representative Assembly (RA), Boston 2016 NEA Summer RA, Washington, DC 2016 Bemidji Writers Workshop, Bemidji, MN 2016 Train the Trainer Workshop, Michigan Human Trafficking Task force (MHTTF), December 2016 NEA Women’s Caucus Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (fall) 2016 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF-US) Board Retreat, Chicago, IL,

(October) 2016 Restorative Practices Training, Resolution Services Center, Lansing Michigan (August 9-10) 2015 NEA Summer Representative Assembly (RA), Orlando, FL 2015 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF-US) Program & Board Retreat,

Des Moines, IA (October) 2015 “Women’s Power to Stop War,” Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF),

Centennial Congress, The Hague, Netherland, April 22-25. 2008 “Exploring the Family Drama: Race, Gender, Memory, and Narrative.” Summer Seminar in

Literary and Cultural Studies (Leader: Dr. Philip J. Deloria), University of West Virginia, Morgantown. June 5-8.

2007 50th. Anniversary of the African Studies Association Annual Conference, New York. 2006 Indigenous Justice Systems of North America Conference, Michigan State University School of

Law, Michigan State University, East Lansing 2006 Equity in the Classroom Annual Conference, Kellogg Center, East Lansing. 2005 National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME) Conference, Atlanta. 2004 AAC& U Diversity and Learning Conference, Nashville, Tennessee (November). 2004 Patterson Institute Conference on fiftieth Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, Washington,

D.C. (September 24-27). 2004 NAFSA Annual Conference, Baltimore (May). 2003 American Council on Education: Educating All of One Nation (EAON), Atlanta, Georgia. 2003 GEAR UP National Conference, Washington, D.C. (June) 2003 GEAR UP/NCCEP Conference, Phoenix, Arizona (February). 2002 National Coalition Building Institute seminar (11/13 – 15). 2001 College of Humanities Social and Behavioral Sciences (CHSBS) one-week computer workshop. 2001 Equity Conference: Teaching and Learning in a Diverse Classroom,” Ferris State University, Big

Rapids, March 22 & 23. 2001 National SEED (Seeking Diversity and Equity in Education) Summer Institute with Dr. Peggy

McIntosh, San Domenico School, San Anselmo, CA (July 13-20). 2000 Midwest Rural Arts & Culture Forum 2000: ‘Celebrating Sense of Place,” Suomi College/Finlandia,

Hancock (July 7-8). 1996-2002: Technology, Pedagogy, and Diversity training for the BCTT project. Project faculty

participated in similar training and planning sessions every semester for the four-year duration of the project.

1991 Second Women's International Playwright Conference, Glendon College, Toronto. SERVICES TO NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: EDITORIAL & EXECUTIVE

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International 2011-Present Associate Editor, African Literature Today 2007- Present Editorial Board, Journal of African Cinema 1997 – 2000 Editorial Board, Screening the Past 1993 – Present Editorial Board Critical Arts: A Journal of Media Studies

Expert consultant with Refugee Board of Canada on immigration and cultural issues for cases on African women

National 2016 - Present Mid-western Regional Coordinator, Women Caucus, National Women’s Association 2016 – Present NEA Resolution’s Committee 2015 - 2018 National Program Chair, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) 2010 - 2016 Editor, African Literature Association Annual Series 2009 - 2010 Interim Editor, African Literature Association Annual Series 2009 - 2015 Chair, African Literature Association Human Rights Council 2008 - 2009 President, African Literature Association 2007 - 2008 Vice President, and Executive Council, African Literature Association 2007 - 2014 Editorial Board, MBARI: International Journal of Igbo Studies 2003 - 2004 Chair, African Literature Division of the MLA 2002 - 2003 Secretary, African Literature Division of the MLA 2001 - 2005 Executive Council, African Literature Division of the MLA 1995 - 2003 Editorial Board and occasional/guest writer, African Profiles Magazine 1998 - 2001 Editorial Board of Pedagogy 1996 - 2000 Board member, Michigan Humanities Council 1994 -1999 Secretary, African Literature Association 1993 -1995 Chair, African Studies Association Outreach Council 1993 -1994 Secretary, African Literature Association Women's Caucus 1992 -1996 Curriculum Consultant for Michigan Humanities Council 1992 -1999 African Literature Executive Council 1993 -1995 African Studies Executive Council Outreach & Fund-raising Committees 1990 -1995 African Studies Association Children's Book Award Council 1989 -1991 Faculty Advisor, Southern African Liberation Committee, Michigan State University 1987 -1995 Editorial Board, Women and International Development, Michigan State University 1987 -1993 African Studies Association Outreach Council 1987 -1989 Secretary, African Studies Outreach Council 1985 -1986 President, African Studies Program Student Advisory Committee, Indiana University,

Bloomington spring l984 - fall l985 President, Comparative Literature Program Student Advisory Board, Indiana

University, Bloomington State: 2018- Present MEA Social Justice Commission CMU Faculty Association /MEA/NEA Representative

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MEA International Understanding Commission, Chair COMMITTEES and SERVICES Central Michigan University: 2002 -2006 As AVP for Diversity and International Education, I was a member of the Council of Deans, President’s Executive Staff, President’s Senior Staff, Academic Senate, President’s Goal Team on Diversity and International Education, and Academic Planning Council, the Budget Review and Restructuring Committee. STUDENT GROUP ADVISING AND MENTORING: 2016-2018 Faculty Adviser, AHERO (African Humanitarian Educational Research Organization), CMU 2015-2018 Faculty Adviser, Students Against Slavery 2013-Present Faculty Adviser, African Students Association 2010-2011 Faculty Adviser, African Students Association 2007-2008 Faculty Adviser, Sigma Kappa COMMITTEES: 2014-Present Sub-Committee, Human Rights Certificate, CLASS Spring 2012 Honors Faculty Led Study Abroad Group Spring 2012-14 Academic Senate 2011-Present Women Studies Council 2010-fall 2016 Academic Senate rep. on Academic Planning Council 2010- Faculty Association Executive Board (MEA/MAHE Rep.; MEA/NEA; 3-1G Rep) 2009-Present Advisory Council 2009 Founding member, Cultural and Global Studies Program 2009-2011 CHSBS, Promotion and Tenure Committee Fall 2008 Graduate Committee, Department of English 2007-2009 General Education Subcommittee (chair fall 2007) 2007-2010 Academic Senate 2006-Present MA in the Humanities Advisory Council 2005-2009 Central Michigan University, Vision 2010, Priority 2 Subcommittee 2006-2007 Undergraduate Curriculum Council, Dept. of English 2004-2006 International Film Festival Selection Committee 2004-2006 International Film Festival Advisory Committee 2004 Provost’s Task Force on International Education (chair) 2003- 2006 President’s Advisory Council on Native American Educational Initiatives (chair) 2004 Vice Provost Search Committee (summer) 2002-2006 Campus Climate Committee (chair) 2001-2002 Committee on Committees 2002-2003 Executive Vice President/Provost Search Committee 2001-2002 Honors Committee (English Department, chair till 9/02) 2001-2006 Honors Program Council 2002-2006 Honors Centralis Selection Committee

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Initiated and led faculty Inclusive Pedagogy/Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity in Education (SEED) seminar, Fall 2000-Spring 2001

2000 Created and led Students’ SEED sessions in fall 2000 International Education Council Multicultural and Diversity in Education Council (MDEC) English Department Personnel Committee (two terms) President Advisory Committee on Native American Art & Culture (2000 – 2001; chair, 2002-2006 President’s Advisory Council on Diversity and Affirmative Action (Equity Council) (chair, 2002 -2006) President’s and Provost’s Award Review Committee Ronald McNair Advisory Board Women’s Studies Advisory Board

Other: 2013 Study Abroad: Going Beyond our Boundaries 2003 Storyteller, Story Telling Festival, Central Michigan University 2003 Panelist, “The World that 9/11 Made: Fueling Religious and Ethnic Intolerance,” “Speak Up, Speak

Out: The Current Event Series” I provide occasional media commentary on issues related to African and African American Studies, diversity, multiculturalism, and inter-culturalism.

Expert consultant on asylum cases related to African women and children Other local, regional, and national Civic service Isabella County/Mount Pleasant 2018- Member, Isabella County Mental Health Court Group 2018- Isabella County HRC Representative on Isabella County Community Collaborative 2016-Present: Clare, Gratiot, Isabella (CGI) Human trafficking Coalition (Founding member); developed group’s strategic plan; helped to develop group’s two-part survey; co-faculty survey team Education sub-committee, CGI Human Trafficking Coalition (Chair) Resource sub-committee, CGI Human Trafficking Coalition 2017-2018 Chair, International Understanding Committee, Michigan Education Association 2016-Present: Volunteer, Women’s Aid Service, Mt. Pleasant 2014-Present: Chair, Isabella County Human Rights Committee 2012 Micro-aggression Study & Community Education sub-committee, Isabella County HRC 2010 Law Enforcement sub-committee, Isabella County HRC 2009-Present Isabella County Human Rights Committee Michigan State University: 2000 The National Festival of Folk Life, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.

Cultural and academic mentoring and support to new African students/scholars and African-American student organizations and caucuses, Africanist faculty, students, and the public.

Advisor to the Southern African Liberation Council (SALC) & worked with the Peace Education

Center and local Amnesty International to lobby and raise community awareness on apartheid,

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human rights, racism, and gender issues. National: 2017-Present Resolutions Committee, National Education Association 2016-Present Mid-western Region Coordinator, Women’s Caucus, National Education Association The Media: 1987-1995 Provide support to local media with research on African issues 1987-1995 Media PR & liaison for African Studies Center African Culture Week Michigan Communities & Organizations: 1986-Present: 2017 fall CMU Faculty Association workshop on micro-aggression, Leader 2016 summer MEA International Understanding Micro-aggression workshop, Lead trainer 1995 Guest speaker for local Amnesty International “Teach-in” and Memorial Service for Ken Saro Wiwa,

playwright and novelist executed by Nigerian government, MSU, November 16. 1995 Participant in local Public Radio station’s cultural program (one of local story tellers featured on

WKAR Michigan Story House in winter, 1995). 1988-2001: worked with Michigan Humanities Council on African studies curriculum. 1987-1995: worked with the Michigan Council for the Social Studies (1987-1995) to provide African studies

curriculum guidance to area school teachers, educators, businesses, and churches. Conducted cultural awareness programs for Michigan Historical Museum, local Boys Club, bookstore &

libraries Developed and delivered an African Studies seminar for Michigan prisons at Jackson and Ionia; developed

an African Studies curriculum for Jackson Correctional Facilities taught through Spring Arbor College; served as an academic consultant to the GLICA (Great Lakes Inter Collegiate Association) and GLIMUN (Great Lakes Model UN) on panels and discussions at model OAU and model UN conferences (1987 -1995).

Non-Michigan Organizations:

Project reviewer, Geena Davis Foundation, 2016 Ph.D. Thesis (External Reader), University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa (spring 2008-

Present) Reviewer, South African Research Foundation MLA/PMLA Manuscript reviewer NEH grant reviewer USED, Undergraduate Students International and Foreign Language programs, grant reviewer ASA Nomination and Membership Committee (2000) African Studies Association (ASA) Conference planning & panel selection committee (1999)

Other: 1968 –1970: Assisted local Red Cross in wartime clinics for sick children and wounded soldiers; helped at emergency feeding centers set up by Red Cross and CARITAS at St. Brigid’s, Nnarambia, Ahiara, Imo State; Storyteller and cultural presenter at local, regional, and national organizations.

Interviewee on local and regional media on diversity issues, including African Studies topics.

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LANGUAGES: English (native speaker/writer/reader) Hausa (native speaker/writer/reader) Igbo (native speaker/writer/reader) French (average translation/reading proficiency and weak spoken proficiency) Swahili and Portuguese (weak reading proficiency) PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: African American Literature and Culture Studies Association (AALCS), African Literature Association (ALA) African Studies Association (ASA) Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) (1992-93) College Language Association (CLA) Michigan Education Association (MEA) Modern Languages Association (MLA) National Education Association (NEA) Women’s Caucus, National Education Association Phi Beta Delta (International Honors Society) Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML) Toni Morrison Society The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Zeta Phi Beta, Inc. References will be provided upon request.