Christopher E. Ouma, Associate Professor of English

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Teaching (Spring 2026):

• ENGLISH 290S.04, SP TOP IN LANG. & LIT Synopsis

  Allen 317, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 290S.04, LIT 290S.04)

• ENGLISH 590S-5.02, SP TOP SEMINAR DIVERSITY Synopsis

  Smith Wrhs B189, M 12:00 PM-02:30 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 590S.02)

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Witwatersrand (South Africa)	2011
M.A.	University of Witwatersrand (South Africa)	2007

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Ouma, C, READING THE NEW DIASPORA IN YEWANDE OMOTOSO’S FICTION, in Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature (January, 2024), pp. 555-567 [doi]  [abs]
2. Ouma, CEW, Anti-Apartheid Imagination, the Cold War, and African Literary Magazines, in Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures (January, 2022), pp. 325-338, ISBN 9781350191716 [doi]
3. Lee, CJ; Ouma, CEW, In excess of the nation: a conversation about Pan-Africanism, African literature, and political imaginations of the past and future with Christopher Ouma, Safundi, vol. 23 no. 3-4 (January, 2022), pp. 259-276 [doi]
4. Ouma, CEW; Krishnan, M, Small magazines in Africa: ecologies and genealogies, Social Dynamics, vol. 47 no. 2 (January, 2021), pp. 193-209 [doi]  [abs]
5. Krishnan, M; Ouma, C; Chrisman, L; Ngugi, MW, What Was African Fiction?: A Roundtable on Mukoma Wa Ngugi’s The Rise of the African Novel: Politics of Language, Identity and Ownership (University of Michigan Press, 2018) Featuring Madhu Krishnan, Christopher Ouma, Laura Chrisman and Mukoma Wa Ngugi, Black Scholar, vol. 51 no. 3 (January, 2021), pp. 39-71 [doi]