Gichingiri J. Ndigirigi

Research Interests

• African, African Diaspora literatures/drama/theater
• Postcolonial and transnational studies

Teaching Interests

• African literature: fiction and drama/theater
• Caribbean Literature: fiction and drama
• African American drama/theater

Selected Publications

Book in Press

• Ngugiwa Thiong‘o’s Drama and the Kamiriithu Popular Theater Experiment. Forthcoming from Africa World Press.

Articles

• “Kenyan Theater after Kamiriithu,” The Drama Review, Vol. 43 #2 (T162) Summer 1999
• "Kamiriithu: Kimuri kia Abirika," Mutiiri (Journal of Culture). #5, 1997, (An earlier Gikuyu language version of the article eventually published in The Drama Review); "Kamaru Mwarimu wa Muingi," Mutiiri (Journal of Culture), Manja 1, Iruta I, Jan-Apr. 1994, (A critique of the music of Kenya’s leading musician from the 1960s to 1990s)
• "Character Names and Types in Ngugi's Later Fiction," Ufahamu Vol. X1X, Nos. II &III, Spring/Fall 1991.

 

Contact Information

Gichingiri J. Ndigirigi
Assistant Professor
Department of English
318 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0430

Office: (865) 974-6942
Fax: (865) 974-6926
E-mail: jndigiri@utk.edu

Education

B.A., M.A., University of Nairobi, Kenya
Ph.D., UCLA

Research

African and African Dispora Literature