Chielo Eze

Education & Professional History

St. Joseph’s Seminary, Ikot-Ekpene (Nigeria), BA; University of Innsbruck, M.Div.; University of Bayreuth, MA; Purdue University, PhD

Highlights & Recent Activity

Articles:

1. “Decolonisation in Africa: love or litigation? Mandela as moral capital.” Social Dynamics: A journal of African studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2229132

2. “Desire as an Idiom of Liberation: Black Feminist Praxis in Toni Cade Bambara and Alice Walker.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. DOI: 10.1353/tsw.2023.0006
3. “Justice as a Spiritual Quest” Contemporary Justice Review, Volume 24, Issue 3 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1080/10282580.2021.1965073
4. “The Aesthetics of Proximity and the Common Good” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 6(2) April 2019), pp 283–290.
5. “Empathetic Cosmopolitanism: South Africa and the Quest for Global Citizenship” Strategic Review for Southern Africa, Vol 39 no. 1 (May 2017): 236-255.

Monographs

1. Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination: We, Too, Are Humans. (London: Routledge, 2021). pp. 184. OPEN ACCESS: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003148272
2. Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa. Rochester, New York: The University of Rochester Press, 2018. Pp.226.
3. Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. pp.230.

Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations

African Studies Association, African Literature Association,

African and African Diaspora Cultural Studies

Comparative Cultural Studies

Philosophy and Literature (Ethics)

Black Social and Political Thought

Black Feminist Writing

Literature and Human Rights/Social Justice/the Environment

African Religions