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Profile
| Academic position | Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies,Theatre and Media Studies |
| Keywords | Humor, Comedy, Nigeria, Women, Social Media |
| Honours and awards | 2021: Carnegie Corporation of New York Fellowship (August to November, 2021) 2018: African Humanities Program Dissertation-Completion research fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Mainz |
| Institution | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
| Institute | Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien |
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 | 01/08/2022 |
Program(s)
| 2021 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2024 | Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula: Performing Nigerianness: Equivocal Identities and Digital Legibility of White Women Comedians. In: African Studies Review, 2024, 1-21 |
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| 2023 | Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula: No Longer a Laughing Matter: Women Comics and the Social Media Space in Nigeria. In: TDR: The Drama Review, 67, 2023, 136-148 |
| 2023 | Rowland Amaefula: Performing Covid19's Impact: Social Media and the Mainstreaming of Female Humorists in Nigeria. In: Research in African Literatures, 54, 2023, 32-47 |