Chielozona Eze
Professor, English, African/African American Studies Coordinator, African/African American Studies
Office Hours:
Fall 2022 Student Hours3:00-4:00 p.m. Monday and Wednesday, OnlineOr by appointment. Please email c-eze@neiu.edu in advance to arrange.
Research Interests
Narrative theory, Globalization and Cultures, Feminism in Global Contexts
Education
Ph.D. English/Philosophy, Purdue University, 2003
MFA Fiction, Purdue University, 2003
M.A. Comparative Literature/German, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 1996
M.A. Catholic Theology, Leopold Franzens University, Austria, 1989
B.A. Philosophy (magna cum laude), St. Joseph鈥檚 Seminary, Nigeria, 1984
Selected Publications
Books
Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women's Literature - Feminist Empathy New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2016.
Postcolonial Imagination and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture. Lanham: Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield), 2011.
The Dilemma of Ethnic Identity: Alain Locke鈥檚 Vision of Transcultural Societies. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2005.
Articles
"Decolonisation and its Discontents: Thoughs on the Postcolonial African Moral Self" Journal of South African Philosophy, Vol 34. Issue 4 (2015): 408-418.
鈥淩ethinking African Culture and Identity: The Afropolitan Model.鈥 Journal of African Cultural Studies. 26. 2. (2014): 234-247.
鈥淭he Open Wounds of Being: The Poetics of Testimony in the Works of Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.鈥 Interdisciplinary Literary Studies. Vol. 16, No.2 (Fall 2014): 282-306.
鈥淒eath, Here I Am: Violence and Redemption in Zakes Mda鈥檚 Ways of Dying.鈥 Journal of Narrative Theory, 43.1. (Spring 2013): 87-107.
鈥淣elson Mandela and the Politics of Empathy: Reflections on the Moral Conditions for Conflict Resolutions in Africa.鈥 African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review. Volume 2, Number 1, (Spring 2012): 122-135.
鈥淎mbits of Moral Judgement: Of Pain, Empathy and Redemption in J.M.Coetzee's Age of Iron,鈥 Journal of Literary Studies, 27:4, (2011):17-35.
鈥淎frican Feminism: Resistance or Resentment." Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy XX, 1-2, (2008): 97-117.
鈥淭he Pitfalls of Cultural Consciousness.鈥 Philosophia Africana 10. 1 (March 2007): 37-47.
鈥淐osmopolitan Solidarity: Negotiating Transculturality in Contemporary Nigerian Novels.鈥 English in Africa. (Spring 2005):99-112.
鈥淩esentment and the African Condition: An Inquiry.鈥 Gefame: Journal of African Studies. 2, no. 1, 2005.
Creative Works
The Trial of Mugabe (Novella) Chicago, Okri Books, 2009.
Survival Kit (Poems) New York: Akachic Books, 2016.