Gichingiri J. Ndigirigi

Research Interests

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

Teaching Interests

• African & Caribbean literature
• African American drama

Selected Publications

• “What is my Nation: Visions of a New Global Order in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow.”  Journal of Global Initiatives. 2.2, 2007.
  
  
• Mũtiiri: Njaranda ya Mĩikarĩre (Journal of Culture). 8, 2007 (Guest editor).
  
  
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Drama and the Kamĩrĩĩthũ Popular Theater Experiment. Trenton, NJ. Africa World Press, 2007.
  
  
• “The Crisis of Representation in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow.” JALA (Journal of the African Literature Association); 1.2, summer/fall 2007.
  
  
• “Kenyan Theater after Kamĩrĩĩthũ.” The Drama Review. 43.2 (T162), summer 1999.
  
  
•  “Kamĩrĩĩthũ: Kĩmũrĩ kĩa Abirika.” Mũtiiri: Njaranda ya Mĩikarĩre (Journal of Culture). 5,1997 (An earlier Gĩkũyũ language version of the article eventually published in The Drama Review).
  
  
• “Kamarũ Mwarimũ wa Mũingĩ.” Mũtiiri: Njaranda ya Mĩikarĩre (Journal of Culture). 1.1 Jan.-Apr. 1994. (A critique of the music of Kenya’s leading musician from the 1960s to the 1990s).
  
  
• “Character Names and Types in Ngugi’s Later Fiction.” Ufahamu. XIX.II&3,
  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