{"id":8800,"date":"2017-01-25T14:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=8800"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:00:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T09:00:55","slug":"emenyonu-professor-ernest-nneji","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/emenyonu-professor-ernest-nneji\/","title":{"rendered":"EMENYONU, Professor Ernest Nneji,"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MA, Ph.D, educationist, professorofEn glish, bom November 1, 1939, Mbieri, via Owerri, Imo State; married Dr. Patricia Ann Thornton 1970, two sons, two daughters; Education: Bishop Lasbrey Teachers&#8217; Col lege, lrete, Owerri, 1.956-57, 1960-61, Uni versity ofNigeria, Nsukka, 1963-66,Colum bia University, New York, 1966-67, Lon don University, England-Summer, 1967, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, 1968-70; Career: Appointed Instructor in English,Knoxville College, Knoxville, Ten nessee, USA, 1967-68; associate Professor of English, Virginia State College, Petershery, Virginia, USA, 1970-72; associ ate Professor of English and Black Studies, University ofColorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 1972-75; Reader in English, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, 1975- 80; appointed Professor &#038; Head, Depart ment of English, Dean of Faculty of Arts, University of Calabar, Cross River State, 1980-87; appointed Deputy Vice Chancel lor, University ofCalabar, 1988; ViceChan cellor, University of Calabar, Cross River State, 1988-90; appointed Provost, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, 1992- 96; Visiting Professor of English, Brandelis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, 1997-98; Professor of English, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 1998-date; member, Af rican Literature Association, USA, 1973; member, Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, USA, 1981; member, Af rican Studies Association, USA; Vice-Presi dent, Professors World Peace Academy,Ni gerian Chapter, 1985; President, West Afri can Chapter, Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, since 1986; Afro-Anglo-American fellow (Carneige Foundation), 1966-67; Kent fellow (Danforth Foundation), 1969-72; Woodrow Wilson Internship fellow, 1970-72; Knighted by The Anglican Diocese ofOwerri, 1989; Inducted into the Nigerian Academy of Education, 1994; Traditional Title: Ugwumba I of Mbieri, Mbaitoli Local Government Area, Imo State; Publications: Cyprian Ekwensi Evans, London, 1974; The Rise ofthe Igbo Novel Oxford University Press, Ibadan, 1978; The Essential Ekwensi, Heineman, Ibadan, 1987;Studies ontheNigerian Novel, Heineman, 1991; Ideas andChallenges in Nigerian Education, New Generation, 1994; Hobbies: lawn tennis, movies, travelling&#038; creative writing; Official Address: 1732, Dixwell Avenue, 4F, Hamden, CT. 06514, U.S.A. Telephone: 203-287-8775.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[176],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-8800","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26250,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/8800\/revisions\/26250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8800"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=8800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}