CURRICULUM VITAÉ
1.
PERSONAL DATA
NAME: Anya U. Egwu, Ph.D
PLACE OF BIRTH: Etiti-ama Nkporo, Ohafia L.G.A
NATIONALITY: Nigerian
STATE OF ORIGIN: Abia State
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: Ohafia
CONTACT ADDRESS: Block G, Flat 1, New Estate, Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria
POSTAL ADDRESS: Department of Languages, College of Development Studies, Covenant University, Ota.
PHONE NUMBER: 08039172267
E- MAIL: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
MATRITAL STATUS: Married
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INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED AND QUALIFICATIONS WITH DATE
University of Ibadan, Ibadan
2011
PhD
University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos
1997
M.A. Literature
University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos
1996
B.A. English
Nkporo Secondary School,
Nkporo, Ohafia L.G.A, Abia State
1979-1982
School Certificate
Community Secondary School,
Isingwu, Umuahia, Abia State
1977- 1979
Transfer Certificate
Etitiama Primary School, Etitiama
Nkporo, Ohafia L.G.A, Abia State
3.
1970-1976
First School Leaving Certificate
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011-Date: Lecturer, Department of Languages, Covenant University, Ota.
*Courses Taught: B. A. (Contemporary African Literatur; Introduction to African Literature; Introduction to
Oral Literature; Shakespeare); M.A. (Studies in African Fiction; Comparative Literature; Popular Culture and
Mass Media)
*Administrative Duties: (1) Departmental Examination Officer (2) Departmental Seminar Coordinator (3)
Level Adviser (4) Member, College Chapel Committee (5) Member, College Examination Committee (6)
Member, College Students‟ Advisory Committee
2010-11: Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English, University of Ibadan.
*Course Taught: Poetry in English
*I prepared the current Department of English Poetry Anthology with Dr Toyin Jegede. The anthology is the
official document for all year one students offering Poetry in English across the departments.
2004-2009: Visiting Lecturer: Lagos State University (SPTS)
*Courses Taught: Oral Literature in Africa, African Literature, Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Drama,
Modern Drama, Introduction to Literary Appreciation, Poetry from the Renaissance to the Present,
Contemporary Nigerian Literature, Feminism in Literature.
2000- 2004: Visiting Lecturer: St. Augustine’s College of Education, Akoka, Lagos
*Taught and examined degree students
*Courses Taught: Introduction to Poetry, Introduction to Drama, American Literature, Theatre Workshop,
English Literature from the Beginning to the Present.
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CONSULTANCY/NON-TEACHING POSITIONS
2010-2011: Appointed Editorial Consultant/Contributor, Lagos State Government team on a book project on
Governor Fashola‟s First Term in Office entitled “Re-defining Governance in the New Lagos: the Quest for a
Brighter and More Rewarding Future”
*I led the research and editorial team that produced the yet-to-be-published two-volume book and drafted the
chapters that touch on his achievements during the period.
2006-2007: Editorial Consultant, African Cultural Centre, 346 H/ Macualey Way, Yaba, Lagos.
*The centre publishes academic journals, biographies, and other academic and non-academic books. I
consulted for the centre during its production of a three-volume biography of 48 Nigerian women (Herstory:
Women of Valour) jointly published by the centre and Zenith Bank Plc.
*I researched and drafted chapters of the biography of Chief (Mrs) Kuforiji-Olubi: Bola: an Indomitable
Amazon
*I researched and drafted chapters of the biography of Chief Olu Akinkugbe
2001-2005: Marketing Director, Micro-Link International Limited, 8, Anthony Village Road, Anthony,
Lagos.
*The company was an emerging IT company. I had the responsibility to design and oversee the marketing of
the company‟s IT products, which included Optical Mark Reading (OMR) services, IT training initiatives and
other services; chaired meetings in the Chairman‟s absence.
1998- 2000: Academic Director, Omega Tutorial Center, Masha, Surulere, Lagos
*The centre was intended to evolve into a higher institution, and therefore engaged university lectures and
professionals.
*I planned the academic programmes of the centre, which offered O‟ & A‟ level tutorials.
*I was in charge of teaching staff recruitment.
*I sourced the high-level personnel –the university lecturers and professionals.
FELLOWSHIP AWARD
*2014 Cadbury Visiting Fellowship, Department of African Studies and Anthropology (DASA)/Faculty of
Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED
Lectures
*African Studies Centre, Oxford Annual Lecture 2014, titled „Literature the African Condition and my Life‟ by Wole
Soyinka, on Monday 5 May 2014 at Sheldonian Theatre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
* Lecture anchored by David Harvey and Andy Merrifield, titled „Contradictions of capitalism and the new urban
question: David Harvey and Andy Merrifield‟, Thursday 3 April 2014 at Birkbeck University, B01, Clore Management
Centre, Torrington Square, London WC1, United Kingdom.
Workshops
*DASA Cadbury Workshop on Class, Culture, and Consumption, Monday 14-17 April 2014, at Danford Room, Arts
Building, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
*3- Day Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop on Museum Administration, Conservation & Preservation, organized by
University of Ibadan Cultural Heritage Museum, 27-29 July 2011 at the ICT Resource Centre, MacArthur Foundation
Building, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
* 3rd Osigwe Anyiam – Osigwe National Workshop on Development Philosophy, a two-day national workshop
organized by the Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan in conjunction with Osigwe Anyiam – Oigwe
Foundation, Lagos, and African Institute for Leadership, Research and Development, South Africa, 27-28 April 2010 at
the Conference Centre, University of Ibadan.
CONFERENCES ATTENDED AND PAPERS PRESENTED
The Annual Cadbury Conference in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology. Theme: “Class in
Africa: A Reassessment”, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom; 15-16 May 2014.
Paper Presented: “Satirical Performances of Communitas and Class in the Ewa-oma Festival of Nkporo,
South-Eastern Nigeria”
*2nd Conference of the Nigerian Oral Literature Association, The Bible Institue, Ibadan; 6-9 August 2013
Paper Presented: “Redefinition of Oral Literature: a Holistic Approach”
*Third Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and African Diaspora (TOFAC 2013), Lead
City University, Ibadan: July 1-3, 2013.
Paper Presented: “Festival Performances in Africa and the Relevance of Richard Schechner‟s Performance
Theoretic.”
*Toyin Falola Annual International Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora, Excellence Hotel and
Suites, Ikeja, Lagos; July 2-4, 2012
Paper presented: “Concretizing the Drama of the Fourth Stage: the Burden of the Interpretation of the
Ikpirikpe-ogu Ritiual Dance Drama of the Cross-river Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria”
*Toyin Falola Annual Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora; University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria;
July 4-6, 2011
Paper presented: “Of Mimesis, Indigenous Performances, and the African Drama”
*1st Biennial Faculty of Arts International Conference on African Culture in the Making of the
Modern World; University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; June 6-9, 2011
*Inaugural Conference of Nigerian Oral Literature Association (NOLA); Effurun-Warri, Delta State;
December 6-8, 2010
Paper presented: “Ewa-oma Festival Performance of Nkporo, Southeastern Nigeria and Theorizing on
African Indigenous Drama”
*3rd Osigwe Anyiam – Osigwe National Workshop on Development Philosophy. Organized by Department of
Philosophy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, in conjunction with Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation,
Lagos and Africa Institute for Leadership, Research and Development, South Africa; April 27-28, 2010
* The Eruvbetine Conference; University of Lagos; November 28-30, 2006
Paper presented: “The Ewoma Festival of Nkporo: A Model of African Indigenous Drama”
* International Conference on African Literature (IICAL); University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; July 3-6,
2008
* African Cultural Studies Conference; University of Lagos; October, 2003
*Conference on Rekindling of the Flame of Development through a Humanistic Management of Pluralism;
University of Lagos; March 13-15, 2001
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PUBLICATIONS
* Egwu, Anya. ”Towards a Type Classification of Ewa-oma Performances of Nkporo, Southeastern Nigeria.” The
Crossroads: African Literature and the Emerging Global Cultures (Essays in Honour of Professor Ademola Dasylva, A
Literary Scholar-Critic). Ayobami Kehinde and Rotimi Fasan (eds). Accepted
* Shittu, Ayodeji I. and Anya Egwu "Third-Worlding‟ the Colonial Metropolis: Post-Colonial Travelogue, Identity and a
Tale of Two Cities in Odia Ofeimun‟s London Letter and Other Poems" Covenant Journal of Language Studies (CJLS)
Vol 2, No.1. June, 2014.
* Egwu, Anya.“Trends in indigenous African Drama Scholarship” Journal of cultural studies, volume 8, number 3,
(2010). 357-389.
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RESEARCH WORKS
* “A Genre Analysis of Ewa-Oma Festival Performances of Nkporo, Southeastern Nigeria” (PhD thesis)
* “The Form of African Traditional Drama: a Case Study of Ewoma Festival of Nkporo” (M.A. Project)
* “Gender Issues: The Case of Women in Flora Nwapa‟s Efuru and One is Enough” (B. A. Project)
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WORKS IN PROGRESS
*Contesting social inequalities and iniquities, framing up justice idioms in the Ewa-oma satirical performances
of the Nkporo Igbo
*Rescuing Memory, Remembering the To-be-forgotten Past (?): Ewa-oma Festival Performances of Nkporo Igbo in the
digital and New Media Age
* Of Social Inequalities in the Nigerian fiction: a Cross-disciplinary Reading of Adichie‟s Half of a Yellow Sun and
Okri‟s The Famished Road
* Rescuing a Vanishing Indigenous African Theatre of Communal Criticism: The Collection and Preservation of Ewaoma Festival Performances in Nkporo, Nigeria (Book)
* The Incongruous Action, Humour and Laughter and the (Re)vitalizing of Person and Society in the Ewa-oma Festival
of Nkporo (Journal Article)
* Satirical Performances of Communitas and Class in the Ewa-oma Festival of Nkporo, South-Eastern Nigeria
(Journal Article)
*African Indigenous Performances and the Relevance of Richard Schechner‟s Performance Poetics (Journal
Article)
*Concretizing the Drama of the Fourth Stage: the Burden of Interpretation of the Ikpirikpeogu Dance Drama of
the Cross-river Igbo (Journal Article)
*The Plot Question in African Festival Performance Studies (Journal Article)
* Interrogating Class, Obfuscating Hegemony and (Re)mapping Identity in the Ewa-oma Festival Performances of
Nkporo, South-Eastern Nigeria (Journal Article)
*Art, Religion, and Naughtiness in African Festival Performances (Journal Article)
* A Semiotic Approach to the Study of the Ekpe and Okonko Festival Performances of the Cross River Igbo (Journal
Article)
* Of Mimesis and the African Festival Performances (Journal Article)
* Montage of Action and/or Mimesis in the Ewa-oma Satirical Festival of Nkporo, South-Eastern Nigeria
(Book)
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GENERAL RESEARCH /TEACHING INTEREST
Oral Literature, African Literature, Poetry, Drama, Performance Theory, Cultural Studies, and Gender studies.
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MEMBERSHIP OF SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATIONS
*Member, Nigerian Oral literature Association (NOLA)
*Member, CLARITY (Clear Language Association)
*Fellow, IFRA
*Member, Literary Association of Nigeria
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HOBBIES:
* Reading * Creative Writing *Music *Meditation *Travelling
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REFEREES:
*A. O. Dasylva, PhD
Professor of African Literature
Department of English
University of Ibadan
Ibadan, Nigeria.
* T. A. Ezeigbo, PhD
Professor of English
Department of English
University of Lagos,
Akoka,Lagos
Nigeria.
* Chimdi Maduagwu, PhD
Department of English
University of Lagos,
Akoka, Lagos
Nigeria