Chielo Eze

Education & Professional History

Universität Innsbruck, MDiv; Universität Bayreuth, MA; Purdue University, PhD; MFA

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. 1. “Desire as power: The political philosophy of Zora Neale Hurston.” Philosophy & Social Criticism, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537251336737
   2. “Friendship as Politics: Human Flourishing in Multiracial Democracy” Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory. Vol. 72184 (2025): 1-22.
   3. “Literature as a Source of political philosophy” Routledge Handbook of African Political Philosophy edited by Uchenna Okeja. Lond: Routledge, 2023.
   4. Decolonisation in Africa: love or litigation? Mandela as moral capital. Social Dynamics: A journal of African studies. Social Dynamics, 49 (2. (2023):332-348    https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2023.2229132
   5. “Desire as an Idiom of Liberation: Black Feminist Praxis in Toni Cade Bambara and Alice Walker.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature. Volume 42, Number 1, Spring 2023. DOI: 1353/tsw.2023.0006

   “Narratives, social justice, and the common good” in Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency, edited by Edited By Sarah Colvin and Stephanie Galasso, Routledge, 2022.

Monographs

1. Desire as Power: Zora Neale Hurston and the Legacy of Black Feminism. London: Bloomsbury 2025.
2. 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
3. Race, Decolonization, and Global Citizenship in South Africa. Rochester, New York: The University of Rochester Press, 2018. Pp.226.
4. Ethics and Human Rights in Anglophone African Women’s Literature: Feminist Empathy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. pp.230.
5. Postcolonial Imagination and Moral Representations in African Literature and Culture. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2011). Pp.135

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