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Department of English
University of Ibadan
&
Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies
University of Ibadan
Ibadan
NIGERIA
Postal Address: Box 21620 University of Ibadan, Ibadan, NIGERIA
E-mail: o.oha@mail.ui.edu.ng, udude@full-moon.com,
obodooha@gmail.com
Weblog: www.obododimma-oha.blogspot.com
Phone: +234 803 333 1330, +234 805 350 6604, +234 808 264 8060.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English (1994), University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
M.A. English (1990), University of Ibadan.
M.Sc. Legal, Criminological & Security Psychology (2005), Univ. of Ibadan.
B.A. English & Literary Studies (First Class Hons., 1986) University of
Calabar, Nigeria.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in Journals
11. ------ (2001). “‘This is what they now call reality’: Otherness and the
rhetoric of the hyperreal”. Mots Pluriels, No. 18.
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1801oo.html
(Special issue on “The Net: New Apprentices and Old Masters”,
guest-edited by Mark Pegrum, Queen Margaret University
College, Edinburgh).
15 ------ (2000). “ In the web of his sight: European travel through Africa
as a virtual encounter”. Mots Pluriels, Number 16, December
2000. http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/MotsPluriels/MP1600oo.html
(Special issue on “Interchange: European Incursions into Africa:
Perspectives from the colonized and the colonizers”, edited by
Jean-Marie Volet, The University of Western Australia)
25. ------- (1997). “Break Every Rule: Chi Chi Layor’s Feminist African
Poetry”. Philosophy and Social Action, An Interdisciplinary –
International Quarterly of Concerned Philosophers for Social
Action, Volume 23, Number 2, April-June, pp. 23-36.
26. ------ (1997) “Her Dissonant Selves: The Semiotics of Plurality and
Bisexuality in Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro”.
American Drama, Volume six, Number two, spring, pp. 67-80.
Book Chapters:
3. ------. (2005) “Living on the Hyphen: Ayi Kwei Armah and the
Paradox of the African-American Quest for a New Future and Identity
in Postcolonial Africa”. In Davis, G.V., P.H. Marsden, B. Ledent, & M.
Delrez (eds.) Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society
in a ‘Post’-Colonial World, ASNEL Papers 9.2, Amsterdam & New
York: Rodopi, Pp 259 – 271.
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5 ------- (2004) “One Being, Being Won: John Steinbeck, Language, and
the Interrogation of Ethnic/Racial Difference in America”. In
Proshina et al (eds.) Culture and Language Contact.
Vladivostok: Far East University Press, Pp 121 – 134. .
6. -------. (2004) “The Role of Face in Wole Soyinka’s From Zia With
love: A Study in Literary Pragmatics”. Ogun’s Children: The
Literature and Politics of Wole Soyinka Since the Nobel. Ed.
Onookome Okome. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press,
Inc., 2004, pp 227 – 247.
3---------. The Wishes That Become Horses: The Rhetoric and Politics of
Igbo Jewishness”, Nordic Journal of African Studies.
--------- (1996) “Dust and Ashes”. In Osondu, E.C. (ed.) For Ken, for
Nigeria. Lagos: Service & Service International, pp 121—122.
Interviews
Oha, Obododimma (1986) The Poet as Prophet: Pol Ndu’s Songs for Seers.
Unpublished B.A. Degree Project, University of Calabar. 51pp. Discusses the
style and prophetic techniques in the war poetry of Pol Ndu. [Supervisor: Prof.
Isaac I. Elimimian]
TEACHING POSITIONS
Part-time lecturer in
• Media Semiotics
• Indigenous Communication Systems
• Alternative Media Studies
• Psycholinguistics and Communication
• Semiotics (Postgraduate)
• Literature and the New Media (Postgraduate)
• Introduction to Creative Writing (Undergraduate)
Language Courses
• Use of English/Communication Skills (Univ. of Calabar, undergraduate)
• Advanced Grammar and Lexicology (Univ. of Calabar, undergraduate, and
Univ. Gaston Berger de St. Louis, undergraduate & postgraduate)
• The Structure of English (Univ. of Calabar, undergraduate)
• English in the Nigerian Situation (Univ. of Calabar, undergraduate)
• English Composition (Univ. of Calabar, undergraduate)
• Advanced English Composition (Univ. of Calabar, undergraduate)
• Contrastive Linguistics (Univ. of Ibadan, postgraduate)
• Discourse Analysis (Univ. of Ibadan, undergraduate)
• Semantics (Univ. of Ibadan, undergraduate)
• Intro. English Phonetics & Phonology (Univ.of Ibadan, undergraduate)
• Translation Theory (Univ. of Ibadan, undergraduate)
• History of the English Language (Univ. of Ibadan, undergraduate)
• Language and Style (Univ. of Ibadan, undergraduate)
• The Sociolinguistic Situation in Africa (Univ. of Ibadan, undergraduate,
Linguistics Department)
• Stylistics of Igbo Literature (Univ. of Ibadan, Undergraduate,
Linguistics Department)
Literature Courses
Ph.D.
M.Phil:
Professor Chinua Achebe Prize for the best graduating student of English and
Literary Studies, University of Calabar, Nigeria, 1986.
USIA Grant for participation in the Summer Institute on the Study of American
Literature and Cultures, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1997.
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• First Annual and Inaugural Convention of the African Society for the
Psychological Study of Social Issues, (ASPSSI), Ibadan, 1995.
REFERENCES
II Prof. Omar Sougou, Section d’Anglais, UFR des Lettres & Sciences
Humaines, Université Gaston Berger, BP 234 St-Louis, Senegal.
E-mail : sougou@ugb.sn , osugu01@gmail.com , osugu01@yahoo.fr
Phone : +221 634 79 77
III Professor (Mrs) Ebele Eko, Department of English & Literary Studies,
University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria. Phone: +234
803 674 1779. E-mail: ebeleewa@yahoo.com