Michael Joseph Chukwudalu ECHERUO,

University Lecturer

BA, MA, Ph.D., educationist; b: March 14, 1937,ht: Umunumo, Nsu Umunumo, so: Imo; m: Rose Nkeonyere Ikwueke 1968; nc: four s ,one d; ed: Stella Maris College, Port Harcourt, 1950-54; University College (now University of Ibadan), Ibadan, 1955-60; Oxford University, England, Summer 1958; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, 1962-65. cr: Lecturer, Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, 1960- 61; asst. Lecturer, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1961-63; Lecturer, 1963-71; snr. Lecturer, 1971-73; prof. English, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1973-74; prof. English/Dean, Post-graduate School, Univer sity of Ibadan, 1974-81; v-c, Imo State University, Okigwe, 1981-88; mm: Modern Language Association of America, International Comparative Literature Association; Foundation presd. Nigerian Association for African and Comparative Literature; mm: Shakespeare Association of America, Association of University Professors of English. awards: Doctor of Humane Letters, 1991, Nebraska University; publ: Mortality, Longman, 1968; Igbo Traditional Life, Culture and Literature, Conch, 1971; Joyce Cary and The Novel of America, Longman, 1973; Distances: New Poems, 1975; Victorian Lagos,…