Michael Maik Nwosu
mnwosu@du.edu

Maik Nwosu is an assistant professor of World Literature at the University of Denver. He holds a Ph.D. in English and Textual Studies from Syracuse University, New York. His research areas include African and African Diaspora literatures and cultures, postcolonial studies, world literature, oral literature, and cultural semiotics. Nwosu's poetry collection, Suns of Kush, was awarded the Association of Nigerian Authors/Cadbury Poetry Prize in 1995. His novels, Invisible Chapters and Alpha Song, received the Association of Nigerian Authors Prose Prize and the Association of Nigerian Authors/Spectrum Prose Prize in 1999 and 2002 respectively. He has also published a short story collection Return to Algadez. His poems, stories, and novel excerpts have appeared in Okike, Glendora Review, Drumvoices Revue, New Writing 14. In the eventful years that Nwosu worked as a journalist in Lagos, Nigeria, he was awarded the Nigeria Media Merit Award for Journalist of the Year in 1995 and co-founded a weekly news magazine, The Source, in 1997. Nwosu is a fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, where he spent the first half of 2001 as a writer-in-residence, and a member of the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars.

Courses Taught

IS: Epiphany Point

Literature to Film