Grants per year
Personal profile
Research Interests
Chris Abani is a novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. His fields of interest include 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 University of London
English and Literary Studies, BA, Illinois State University
Literature and Creative Writing, PhD, University of Southern California
English, MA, University of Southern California
Research interests
- African literature
- Creative writing
- Gender Studies
- Poetics and poetry
- Postcolonial literature
- The novel
- Twentieth century literature
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Grants
- 2 Finished
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Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders - Leadership Institute
International Research & Exchanges Board, Department of State
4/1/22 → 9/15/22
Project: Research project
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Young African Leaders Initiative 2020
International Research & Exchanges Board, Department of State
1/15/20 → 9/15/21
Project: Research project
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An Introduction in Two Movements
Abani, C., 2017, New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne). Dawes, K. & Abani, C. (eds.). Brooklyn, NYResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
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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
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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
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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 BooksResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript
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Breakfast
Abani, C., 2016, In: Prairie Schooner. 90, 4Research output: Contribution to journal › Article