Contact Address: Women's & African American Studies Indiana University, Indianapolis Obioma Nnaemeka is Associate Professor of French, Women's Studies and African American Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis. Education • University of Nigeria Nsukka • Universite de Grenoble France • University of Minnesota, USA • College of Worcester Ohio Job Experience • Rockefeller Humanisl-in Residence. University of Minnesota • Edith Kreeger-Wolf Distinguished Visiting Professor. North Western University • Co\ww\ewicv\or for French Service of the International Service of Radio Netherlands in Helversum. The Netherlands. Awards, Prizes and Grants Professor Nnaemeka has received numerous grants for her researches including the following: • Recipient of Grants from Mac Arthur Foundations • Lilly, the Swedish International Development Agency ( S1DA) • The Swedish Agency for Research Co-operation with Developing Countries ( SAREC) International Research Centre (1DRC) Ottawa, Canada. Listed in Marquis WHO"S WHO in American Women • Recipient of Nigerian Achiever of the Year Award for Leadership • Teaching Excellence Recognition Award • Outstanding Faculty Award • Faculty Achievement Award Other Contributions to Teaching and Research in Aeademia • Designed and taught courses ranging on Black Women Writers, • Feminist Theory • Global Feminism • French/Francophone Literature, Oral and Written Literatures of Africa • African Diaspora and Posteolonial Discourse. • Consultants to foreign Governments, international agencies, academic institutions and is involved in speaking engagements and active participation in national and international conferences and seminars. • Convenor of the Women in Africa and the African Diaspora (WAAD) Conference. ublications • Her publications have appeared in many edited volumes and scholarly journals including Signs. Feminist Issues, Research in African Literature, Law and Policy. Dialectical Anthropology. Women's Studies Quarterly. Western Journal of Black Studies and the International Journal of Third World Studies. Two Edited Volumes viz The Polities of(M) Othering: Womanhood, Identity andResistance inAfrican Literature( Routledge 1997) • Sisterhood, FeminismsandPower: From Africanto the Diaspora African World Press, 1998. She is a multi-lingual and widely travelled scholar. She is a Trustee of some African Based Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO's). She combines research and consultancy with a lot of speaking engagements the world over.
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