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James Wachira
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
English Studies and Anglophone Literatures
Since April 2015 Junior Fellow at Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt working on a PhD project on non*human agencies in/ and of eco-narratives. Additional research interests are in Animal studies, critical posthumanism, environmental humanities, orature, postcolonial studies, Transcultural Literary studies, and Narratology in Anglophone Africa in general and Kenya in particular.
Academic Vita
Teaching
2017/2018 Winter Semester | Beyond the Human versus Animal Divide. Rereading African Literature (Co-taught with Prof. Dr. Susan Arndt, University of Bayreuth) |
| 2012 - 2014 | Adjunct Lecturer – Department of Literature, Theatre and Film Moi University, Eldoret |
Education
| since 2015 | Junior Fellow, Bayreuth International Graduate of African Studies, University of Bayreuth |
| 2011 | Master of Philosophy – Literature - Moi University, Eldoret |
| 2002 | Bachelor of Education (Arts) - Moi University, Eldoret |
Membership
| 2009 - | Member of the of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) |
| 2015 - 2016 | Member of the African Literature Association (ALA |
Faculty of Languages & Literatures
English Studies and Anglophone Literatures
James Wachira
E-mail: bt303486@uni-bayreuth.de