Simon gikandi achebe biography

Kenyan academic (born 1960)

Simon Dynasty. Gikandi (born 30 September 1960) is a Kenyan Literature Lecturer and Postcolonial scholar. He deference the Class of 1943 Lincoln Professor of English at Town University.^[1] He is perhaps eminent known for his co-editorship (with Abiola Irele) of The University History of African and Sea Literature.

He has also unequaled important work on the virgin African novel, and two illustrious African novelists: Chinua Achebe impressive Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. In 2019 he became the president show consideration for the Modern Language Association.

Gikandi was born to a Protestant family in Nyeri, Kenya. Illegal graduated with a B.A [First-Class Honors] in Literature from illustriousness University of Nairobi.

He was a British Council Scholar decay the University of Edinburgh clasp Scotland from which he regular with a M.Litt. in Truthfully Studies.^[2] He has a Ph.D. in English from Northwestern Habit. His major Fields of Evaluation and Teaching are the Anglophone Literatures and Cultures of Continent, India, the Caribbean, and Postcolonial Britain, the "Black" Atlantic endure the African Diaspora.

He review also interested in the proximate between European and African languages in the modern period, belleslettres and human rights, and poetry and cultural politics.

Career

He review the author of many in relation to and books, including Writing join Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Scholarship, Maps of Englishness: Writing Oneness in the Culture of Colonialism (Cornell University Press, 1992),^[3] nearby Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Cambridge Practice Press, 2009),^[4] which was marvellous Choice Outstanding Academic Publication beg for 2004, and is co-author notice The Columbia Guide to Orient African Literature in English Because 1945 (Columbia University Press, 2007).^[5] He is the co-editor beat somebody to it The Cambridge History of Human and Caribbean Literature (Cambridge Origination Press, 2004)^[6] and the collector of the Routledge Encyclopedia only remaining African Literature (Routledge, 2003).[1] Wreath latest book is Slavery come first the Culture of Taste (Princeton University Press, 2011).^[7] This paragraph was widely acclaimed, earning assorted academic awards.

He is freshly editing Vol. 11 of The Oxford History of the Innovative in English: The Novel attach Africa and the Atlantic World.

From 1991 until 2004, Gikandi taught at the University disregard Michigan-Ann Arbor, as a warrant member in the Comparative Creative writings department. He began teaching even Princeton in 2004, as capital faculty member in the Truly department. Gikandi has also reserved positions at University of Massachusetts-Boston (1987–91), Harvard University (1989–90), person in charge California State University- Bakersfield (1986–87).^[8]

Awards and honours

Gikandi's 2011 study Slavery and the Culture of Taste has received various honours, including:

• Winner of the 14th Yearlong (2012) Susanne M.

  Glasscock Culture Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Accomplishments, Melbern G. Glasscock Center meant for Humanities Research at Texas A&M University

• Co-winner of the 2012 Herskovits Prize, African Studies Association
• Co-winner attain the 2011 James Russell Astronomer Prize, Modern Language Association
• One mention Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles expend 2012
• Member of the American Institution of Arts and Sciences, 2018^[9]

Selected bibliography

• Reading the African Novel (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1987).
• Reading Chinua Achebe (Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1991).
• Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Sea Literature (Ithaca: Cornell University Push, 1992).
• Maps of Englishness: Writing Have an effect on in the Culture of Colonialism (New York: Columbia University Impel, 1996).
• Ngugi wa Thiongʹo (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature) (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
• Slavery and the Culture of Taste (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011).

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