Black History Month - Professional Workshop: After Graduate School

Uchechukwu Peter Umezurike is an assistant professor in the Department of English, University of Calgary, Canada. His teaching and research interests include African and African Diaspora literatures, postcolonial literatures, gender and sexuality, cultural studies, and creative writing. He has published his critical writing in Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory, Men and Masculinities, NORMA: Nordic Journal of Masculinity Studies, Journal of African Cultural Studies, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, Postcolonial Text, and Cultural Studies. Umezurike is the author of creative works such as Double Wahala, Double Trouble (2021), Wish Maker (2021), and there’s more, a poetry collection forthcoming from the University of Alberta Press in March 2023.