Dr. Ifeoma Ezinne Odinye is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka. She is the Deputy Director of the newly established Centre for Gender Studies at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria. She graduated with B.A(First Class Honours) in 2006. She spent years doing a postgraduate course (M.A) in Chinese Philosophy (Culture, Literature) at Renmin University, Beijing, China and Xiamen University of China from (2008-2012). She has M.A (2014) and Ph.D (2019) from the department of English Language and Literature, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Dr. Odinye is a highly motivated and research-focused lecturer with a good background in Literature, Gender Studies, Cultural/Black Studies, Psychological and Media Studies. Her PhD Dissertation was on “Violence and the Girl-Child in Selected African Fiction” which investigated fictional representations of childhood abuse—traumatic girl-child experiences that inhibit physical and emotional growth leading to revolutionary traits and mental disturbances such as anxiety, depression, repression, assertiveness, neurosis and death. She has published articles on gender-based violence, culture, hysteria, traumatic memory, cognitive and linguistic fragmentation from literary and critical perspectives. She has served in different academic/administrative positions as a Director, Coordinator, Chairperson, Editor, Postgraduate Supervisor, local and International Examiner. She is also a Creative Writer with published poems and novels.

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Comparative Literature Creative Writing—Poetry And Prose Fiction Gender Studies Postcolonial Literatures