Vincent R. Ogoti
Assistant Professor, English and Global Black Studies
Contact
Department of English
Office: 811 Strode
Email: vogoti@clemson.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison (2023); M.A., University of Notre Dame (2017); B.Ed.(Hons), University of Nairobi (2011)
Courses
ENGL 3560 - Science Fiction; ENGL 4300 - Dramatic Literature; ENGL 2160 - African American Literature; ENGL 4420 - Cultural Studies; GBS 1010 - Africa and the Atlantic World; ENGL 4830/6830 - African American Literature 1920 - Present
Research Interests
Vincent R. Ogoti’s scholarship focuses on African, African American, and Caribbean Literature and Culture; Literature and Medicine; Queer Studies; Oral Literature; and Literary and Critical Theory
Awards
Andrew W. Mellon Public Humanities Fellowship (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Fulbright Fellowship (Yale University);Ebrahim Hussein Fellowship for Research in African Expressive Cultures (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Joan B. Kroc Fellowship (University of Notre Dame)
Selected Professional Works
Books (In Production or Under Contract)
Colonial Heterotopias: Medical Fiction and Race Relations in East Africa (Ongoing)
Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)
“The Poetics of Second Liberation: Revisiting Aimé Cesare’s King Christophe.” Nordic Journal of African Studies, vol. 33, no. 3, 2024, pp. 203-218.
“Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back.” Journal of African Cultural Studies, vol. 35, no. 4, 2023, pp. 392-407. (With Reginald Royston)
“Soundscape and Narrative Dynamics in Chinelo Okparanta’s Under the Udala Trees.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 13, no. 3, 2019, pp. 291-305.
Creative Works (Published)
A Shadow in the Sun: A Play (Nairobi: Pearls House, 2019).
Creative Works (In Production)
Echoes of Green: A Play (Nairobi: Spotlight Publishers)
