English Literature Research Events: Terri Ochiagha Plaza

In brief

Guest speaker - Dr Terri Ochiagha Plaza (University of Edinburgh)

Chair - Professor Paul Crosthwaite (University of Edinburgh)

Title - The Lure of Excess: Archival Seduction and Colonial Self-Monumentality

About the speaker

Dr Terri Ochiagha is a Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literatures at the University of Edinburgh.

She is a scholar of colonial and postcolonial Nigerian cultures and societies working in the interstices of literary studies, history, and postcolonial theory.

Dr. Ochiagha is particularly interested in colonial archival practices, first-generation Nigerian writing, the history of elite colonial education in Africa, and the complex construction and performance of colonial subjectivities amidst (post)colonial flux. 

About the events series

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