Helen Chukwuma

Visiting Professor of English

Ph.D., Literature, Birmingham , England
TESL: Post-Graduate Certificate in Teaching English as a Second Language, University      of California , Los Angeles
M.A., English, University of California , Los Angeles
M.A., Folklore and Mythology, University of California , Los Angeles
B.A., English, Nigeria

Office: 449 College of Liberal Arts Building
Phone: 601.979.1479

HELEN CHUKWUMA is a feminist scholar and the first female to be made a Professor at the University of Port Harcourt , Rivers State , Nigeria in 1993. From 1991-92, she was a Fulbright Research Fellow at the University of Cincinnati , Ohio State , USA . Her academic areas of interests are African literature: oral and written, African Fiction, Feminist Theory in Literature, Contemporary English and American Literature, African and African-American Women Authors, and Women’s Studies. Chukwuma’s current research focuses on Indigenous African Feminism and Meeting Points in Black Women’s Literature.

Publications include:

Accents on the African Novel . 2 nd ed. Nigeria , Port Harcourt : Pearl Publishers, 2003. (1991)

Ed. Feminism in African Literature. 2 nd ed. Nigeria , Port Harcourt : Pearl Publishers, 2003. (1994)

Women Writing: Feminism and National Development in Nigeria . Inaugural Lecture. University of Port Harcourt Press. 5 th Feb. 2004 .

A book in my honor, a Festschrift.
Keroye, Seyifa and Noel C. Anyadike, eds. Woman in the Academy Festschrift for Professor Helen Chukwuma. Pearl Publishers, 2004.