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Profile
| Academic position | Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher |
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| Research fields | African Studies,Theatre and Media Studies |
| Keywords | Performance, Censorship, Stand-up comedy, Humour, Culture |
| Honours and awards | 2018: George Forster Fellowship 2018: Iso Lomso Fellowship with STIAS 2017: Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency 2014: African Humanities Program (AHP) Postdoctoral Award 2011: African Humanities Program (AHP) Dissertation Completion Award |
Current contact address
| Country | Canada |
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| City | Toronto |
| Institution | University of Toronto |
| Institute | Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings | Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/07/2019 |
Programme(s)
| 2018 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2025 | Krings, Matthias, Nwankwọ, Izuu: Playing with Difference: Oyibo Lip-Sync Performances of Nigerian Popular Culture on TikTok. In: Journal of African Cultural Studies, 37, 2025, 68-85 |
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| 2025 | Krings, Matthias, Nwankwọ, Izuu: Remix and Revision: Encounters between Africa and Europe in Contemporary African Popular Culture. In: Journal of African Cultural Studies, 37, 2025, 1-5 |
| 2024 | Nwankwọ, Izuu: Dismantling Colonial Laughter: Tracing Emergent African Diaspora Stand-Up Comedy in French and German. In: Journal of Black Studies, 55, 2024, 638-660 |
| 2024 | Nwankwọ, Izuu: Introduction: On the Limits and Prospects of African Humour. In: Critical African Studies, 16, 2024, 291-297 |
| 2024 | Nwankwọ, Izuu: Politics, Jokes and Power in Africa: The View From Stand-Up Comedy. In: African Studies, 82, 2024, 264-280 |
| 2024 | Nwankwọ, Izuu: What It Is to Perform Not Tell Jokes: Toward a Manifesto of Stand-Up Research. In: Theatre Topics, 34, 2024, 135-142 |
| 2024 | Nwankwọ, Izuu: ‘Punch up, punch down o! All I know is there is punch’: Jokes about Africa(ns) in cross-cultural contexts. In: European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27, 2024, 1176-1193 |
| 2023 | Hammett, D., Martin, L., & Nwankwọ, I. Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance. Bristol University Press, 2023 |
| 2023 | Izuu Nwankwọ, Samuel O. Chukwu-Okoronkwo: The Indigenous Origin of Intermediality in Nigerian Stand-up Comedy. In: Matatu, 53, 2023, 1-20 |
| 2023 | Izuu Nwankwọ: Traditions of naming in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's fiction. In: Postcolonial Text, 18, 2023, 1-17 |
| 2022 | Nwankwọ, Izuu: Ambivalence in the Stand-up Acts of Nigeria’s Mr Paul and Klint da Drunk. In: Journal of African Literature Association, 10.1080/21674736.2022.2067735, 2022, |
| 2022 | Tunca, Daria, Nwankwọ, Izuu Confronting Racism in Cécile Djunga and Trevor Noah’s Stand-up Comedy. In: Nwankwọ, Izuu, Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media. Ibidem Verlag, 2022. 45-66 |
| 2022 | Izuu Nwankwọ: Introduction – Old Wine in a New Bottle: Stand-up Comedy and Its Dispersal across Africa. In: Izuu Nwankwọ, Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media. Ibidem Verlag, 2022. 11-42 |
| 2022 | Nwankwọ, Izuu: Joke Performance Mechanics in Nigerian Stand-up Comedy. In: South African Theatre Journal, 10.1080/10137548.2022.2051731, 2022, |
| 2022 | Izuu Nwankwọ: Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media. Ibidem Verlag, 2022 |
| 2021 | Nwankwọ, Izuu: Self-censorship and Shifting Cognitions of Offence in the Stand-up Acts of Basket Mouth and Trevor Noah. In: Journal of African Cultural Studies, 10.1080/13696815.2021.1968806, 2021, |
| 2021 | Izuu Nwankwọ: Yabbing and Wording: The Artistry of Nigerian Stand-up Comedy. NISC Press/African Humanities Association, 2021 |
| 2018 | Izuu Nwankwo E.: Purple Hibiscus and theme of moderation as a metaphor in the evolution of contemporary Nigerian fiction. In: International Journal of Pedagogy Innovation and New Technologies, 2018, 112-121 |
| 2018 | Izuu Nwankwo: Re-engaging master narratives: Re-encountering Shakespeares The Tempest in Esiaba Irobis Sycorax. In: Journal of Commonwealth Literatures, 2018, 1-16 |
| 2016 | Izuu Nwankwo E.: Antigone, Tegonni and Antigonick: Performing Resistance in a Glocalised Society. In: Katharina Pewny, Charlotte Gruber, Luc Van den Dries, Simon and Leenknegt, Occupy Antigone. Tradition, Transition and Transformation in Performance in Forum Modernes Theater 47. Narr Francke Attempto 2016. 108-122 |
| 2011 | Izuu Nwankwo E.: An Alternative Cinema for the People. In: Matatu, 2011, 696 |
| 2011 | Izuu Nwankwo E.: Trojan women in contemporary perspectives: Dual readings of two recent adaptations. In: Creative Artist: A Journal of Theatre and Media Studies, 2011, 58-80 |