Terri Ochiagha

Biography

"Dr Terri Ochiagha received her PhD from Complutense University, Madrid. In 2014-2016, she was a Newton International Fellow at the School of English, University of Sussex. In 2017 she became a Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham, and tutored in Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 2017. Ochiagha was awarded the African Studies Association UK’S Fage and Oliver Prize for the most outstanding scholarly monograph published in 2014/2015 for her first book, Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite (Oxford: James Currey,2015)"   "Dr Terri Ochiagha received her PhD from Complutense University, Madrid. In 2014-2016, she was a Newton International Fellow at the School of English, University of Sussex. In 2017 she became a Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham, and tutored in Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 2017. Ochiagha was awarded the African Studies Association UK’S Fage and Oliver Prize for the most outstanding scholarly monograph published in 2014/2015 for her first book, Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite (Oxford: James Currey,2015)"  

Research Interest

"Life-Writing Colonial Whiteness Nigerian Print Cultures British Colonial Education in Africa First-Generation Nigerian Writing"