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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies,African Studies |
| Keywords | modernity, humour/laughter, Nigerian comedy, popular culture, postcoloniality |
| Honours and awards | 2010: Leverhulme Trust/Isaac Newton Fellowship, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, UK |
Current contact address
| Country | Nigeria |
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| City | Lagos |
| Institution | Pan-Atlantic University |
| Institute | School of Media and Communication |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Lars Eckstein | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Potsdam, Golm |
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| Prof. Dr. Lars Eckstein | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/03/2019 |
Programme(s)
| 2018 | Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2020 | James Tar Tsaaior: The Sundiata Epic and the Global Literary Imaginary . In: Ken Seigneurie et al (eds), A Companion to World Literature. John Wiley and Sons, 2020. 1305-1315 |
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| 2017 | James Tar Tsaaior & Francoise Ugochukwu (eds): Nigerian Film Culture and the Idea of the Nation: Nollywood and National Narration. Adonis and Abbey, 2017 |
| 2017 | James Tar Tsaaior Im/migrant Metaphors in a Postmodern Moment: Politics, Popular Musical Culture and National Re-Invention in Postcolonial Nigeria . In: Cheryl Sterling (ed)., Transnational Trills: Music and Art in the Africana World. . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. 27-47 |
| 2015 | James Tar Tsaaior: Imagining Nationhood, Framing Postcoloniality: Narrativizing Nigeria Through the Kinesis of (Hi)Story . In: Abdelwahab El-Affendi, Genocidal Nightmares Narratives of Insecurity and the Logic of Mass Atrocities . Bloomsbury, 2015. 53-72 |
| 2013 | James Tar Tsaaior: African Literature and the Politics of Culture. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013 |
| 2013 | James Tar Tsaaior: Football as Social Unconscious or the Cultural Logic of Late Imperialism in Postcolonial Nigeria . In: Stephanie Newell and Onokome Okome Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday.. Routledge., 2013. 275-291 |
| 2012 | James Tar Tsaaior: Barack Obama and the Literary Dimensions of His Writings . In: Melvin Rahming, Critical Essays on Barack Obama: Re-Affirming the Hope, Re-Vitalizing the Dream. . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK. 2012. 23-40 |
| 2011 | Emevwo Biakolo & James Tar Tsaaior eds.: Journalism and New Media Technologies in Africa.. Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization, 2011 |
| 2010 | James Tar Tsaaior: Politics of the Postcolonial Text: Africa and Its Diasporas. LinCom Europa, 2010 |