Joj Nwachukwu-Agbada
EMAIL: jojagbada@yahoo.com
PHONE: 08036777449
ADDRESS: Department of English Abia State University, P.M.B 2000 Uturu, Nigeria.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Reading, Writing and Research
MEMBERSHIP STATUS: Member
YEAR OF INDUCTION/ADMISSION: 2015
POST HELD: N/A
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE: N/A
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION: Abia State University, Uturu
SPECIALTIES: English and Literature, Creative Writing
APPOINTMENTS: Professorship (1996)
PARTICIPATION IN GRANTS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS/PROJECTS: A.L.A Travel Grant to the US in 2009, University of Vermont; Sch. Of Criticism & Theory, 2013, Cornell University, Itaca.
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
NUC Accreditation Visits to several Nigerian universities(since 2005)
Fed Ministry of Education Panel into Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, (2004)
Presidential Visitation Panel to University of Abuja, (2012)
Biography
I am a graduate of two universities: Universities of Jos and Ibadan from where I earned two degrees apiece. My degrees are as follows: B.Ed(English 1980 -2ndUpper) and M.Ed(Guidance and Counselling 1983) from University of Jos and MA(Literature 1986)) and PhD(Literature 1990) from the University of Ibadan. After a stint at the former Anambra College of Education, Awka where I taught English courses, I joined the then Imo State University, Okigwe (now Abia State University, Uturu) in 1988 as a Lecturer 1, and in 1996 became full Professor of English. I have attended and presented papers at conferences at home and abroad in the following areas: Oral Literature and Anglophone African Literature and the Literature of the Diaspora. I have supervised four Ph Ds and several Masters dissertations. I have also been invited by several universities to examine their students at the PhD and masters levels on several occasions. The universities include Ibadan University, Ahmadu Bello, University of Lagos, University of Port Harcourt, Delta State University Abraka, Imo State University, Owerri, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki etc These are different from participation as Readership and Professorial Assessor about which not a few universities have involved me at various times. I have written 5 novels, two children’s fiction, a collection of short stories and two collections of poems. I have equally written more than 15 books and 140 essays and book chapters, published in Nigeria, some other African countries, Europe, Australia, Asia, India and the Americas. I have been HOD (English), Coordinator (Head) of School, Director of Division of General Studies, Dean of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Dean, School of Postgraduate Studies of my university.
