Office Phone: (919) 684-2741
Email Address: christopher.ouma@duke.edu

Teaching (Fall, 2024):

• English 101s.03, The art of reading Synopsis

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

• English 290s.03, Sp top in lang. & lit Synopsis

  Divinity 319, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

Education:

Ph.D., University of Witwatersrand (South Africa)

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Ouma, C. "READING THE NEW DIASPORA IN YEWANDE OMOTOSO’S FICTION." The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature.  2024. 555-567. [doi]  [abs]
2. Ouma, CEW. "Anti-Apartheid Imagination, the Cold War, and African Literary Magazines." The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures.  2022. 325-338.
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 23.3-4 (January, 2022): 259-276. [doi]
4. Ouma, CEW; Krishnan, M. "Small magazines in Africa: ecologies and genealogies." Social Dynamics 47.2 (January, 2021): 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 51.3 (January, 2021): 39-71. [doi]