Izuu Nwankwọ

Izuu Nwankwọ is a theatre scholar, teacher, researcher, and essayist, whose research interests include African and African diaspora popular culture and performance. He is a recipient of the African Humanities Program (AHP) Dissertation Completion Award and Postdoctoral Fellowships in 2012 and 2014. Nwankwọ is also an Iso Lomso Postdoctoral Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and currently (2019-2022) a Georg Forster Postdoctoral Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Programme at the Department of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany. His Igbo language translation of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is titled Ihe Aghasaa (2007). He has two upcoming book titles, the edited volume, Stand-up Comedy in Africa: Humour in Popular Languages and Media (Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag, 2022) and the co-authored work (with Daniel Hammett and Laura S. Martin) Beyond Resistance: Humour and Politics in Africa (Bristol: Bristol UP, 2022).