Drama
Awam Amkpa
Associate Professor
Phone: 212 998 1856
Email: aa67@nyu.edu
Office: 721 Broadway 3FL |
Education
BA, Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; MA, Drama, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria; PhD, Drama, University of Bristol, England.
Biography
Former Senior Lecturer of Drama and Television at King Alfred’s University College, Winchester, England, and Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts at Mount Holyoke College. Author of
Theatre and Postcolonial Desires, London:Routledge, 2003 and forthcoming
Archetypes, Stereotypes and Polytypes: Theatres of the Black Atlantic. Director of film documentaries such as
Winds Against Our Souls,
Its All About Downtown,
National Images and Transnational Desires, and feature film
Wazobia! Author of several articles in books and journals on
Modernisms in Theatre,
Postcolonial theatre,
Black Atlantic Issues, and
Film studies.
