Evan Mwangi

Assistant Professor in English

University Hall 326
Telephone: 847-491-3529
Fax: 847-467-1545
E-mail: evan-mwangi@northwestern.edu

Evan Mwangi teaches 20th Century Anglophone African Literature. He studied at the University of Nairobi where he graduated with a First Class Honours degree and a PhD in literature. He has taught courses in World Literature, Literary Theory, Postcolonial Discourse, Writing and Composition, and African Studies. He researches the intersection of nationalism, gender, and sexuality in canonical and popular artistic expressions, relating local texts to global theories.

Mwangi has published on Achebe, Ngugi, Henry ole Kulet, Margaret Ogola, and Francis Imbuga. His articles and poems have appeared in Mwangaza, Research in African Literatures, English Studies in Africa , and The Nairobi Journal of Literature . He has a number of articles forthcoming in PMLA, Africa Today, and Research in African Literatures. The coauthor of The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945 (Columbia UP, 2007), he is finishing work on a book manuscript on metafiction, gender, and sexuality in African novels. Among other projects on African sports, murals, film, Sherlock Holmes, and hip hop, he is currently working on a monograph investigating the place of gender and sexuality in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's politics of language.

Publications by Evan Mwangi

The Columbia Guide to East African Literature in English Since 1945

Bildan Kaggia: Voice of the People

Guide to Encounters from Africa

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