Vincent R. Ogoti

Assistant Professor, English and Global Black Studies

Contact
Department of English
Office: 811 Strode
Email: vogoti@clemson.edu

Education
Ph.D. (African Cultural Studies and History), University of Wisconsin-Madison (2023)

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Vincent Ogoti is an Assistant Professor, jointly appointed in the English and Interdisciplinary Studies departments. He was a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Humanities, a Storytelling Fellow at MYArts, the inaugural African Studies Program Fellow at UW-Madison, and a Fulbright Fellow at Yale University. He is a scholar of biopolitics, subjectivity, and postcoloniality with a primary emphasis on African, African American, and Caribbean literature and culture. Dr. Ogoti is also a storyteller and has authored and co-produced four plays, including A Shadow in the Sun (2019) and Echoes of Green (2025).

Awards
Lightsey Fellowship (Clemson University); Andrew W. Mellon Public Humanities Fellowship (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Fulbright Fellowship (Yale University);Ebrahim Hussein Fellowship for Research in African Expressive Cultures (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Joan B. Kroc Fellowship (University of Notre Dame); Idol-South Award (Clemson University)

Selected Professional Works

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Published)

“ Narrating Fractures: Teaching Notes on Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing .” Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, vol. 13 (2), 2025, pp.247-262.

“ Unbreakable Bodies: The Maji Maji Rebellion and Ebrahim Hussein’s Kinjeketile." Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, vol. 56(2), 2025, pp. 364-389.

“ The Poetics of Second Liberation: Revisiting Aimé Césaire’s King Christophe .” Nordic Journal of African Studies, vol. 33, no. 3, 2024, pp. 203-218.

“ Voicing Afro-Modernity: How Black Atlantic Audiobooks Speak Back. ” Journal of African Cultural Studies, vol. 35, no. 4, 2023, pp. 392-407. (With Reginald Royston)

“ Soundscape and Narrative Dynamics in Chinelo Okparanta's Under the Udala Trees.” Journal of the African Literature Association, vol. 13, no. 3, 2019, pp. 291-305.

Journal Articles & Book Chapters (Accepted or Submitted)

"Travelling Images: Photography and the Poetics of Visual Peace in Kenya."Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (Accepted).

Creative Works (Published)

Echoes of Green: A Play, Spotlight Publishers (EA) Limited, 2025.

A Shadow in the Sun: A Play, Pearls Publishers Limited, 2019.

Creative Works (In Production)

Masks for the Soul: A Play (forthcoming).