Chris Abani

Professor, Northwestern University, English
Board Of Trustees Professorship, Northwestern University, English
Core, Northwestern University, Comparative Literary Studies PhD Program
Core, Northwestern University, English PhD Program

E-mailchris.abani@northwestern.edu

21 Citations
2 h-Index

Personal profile

Research Interests

African Poetics, World Literature, 20th Century British and American Literature, African Presences in Medieval and Renaissance Cultural Spaces, The Architecture of Cities and their Potential Symbiotic Relationship with their Populations, West African Music, Postcolonial and Transnational Theory, Robotics and Consciousness, Yoruba and Igbo Philosophy and Religion.

Education / Academic qualification

Gender, Society, and Culture, MA, Birkbeck College, University of London

English and Literary Studies, BA, Imo State university

English, MA, University of Sourthern California, Los Angeles

Literature and Creative Writing, PhD , University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Keywords

Creative writing
The novel
Twentieth Century literature
Poetics and poetry
Gender Studies
Postcolonial literature
African literature

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Research Output 1985 2017

21 Citations
2 h-Index
156 Other contribution
31 Book
19 Article
12 Exhibition
25 More

An Introduction in Two Movements

Abani, C. 2017 New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne). Dawes, K. & Abani, C. (eds.). Brooklyn, NY

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

Foreword

Abani, C. 2017 Nowhere to Arrive. Northwestern University Press, (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

Foreword

Abani, C. 2017 The University of Hip-Hop. Northwestern University Press, (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

An Introduction in Two Movements

Abani, C. 2016 New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tatu). Dawes, K. & Abani, C. (eds.). Brooklyn, NY: Akashic Books

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript

Breakfast

Abani, C. 2016 In : Prairie Schooner. 90, 4

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article