Biography

Miami University Oxford - English

Literary scholar and writer
Writing & Editing
Dr. Henry
Njiru
Cincinnati, Ohio Area
Research and Teaching Interests
My current and future research projects, and teaching interests lie in the following areas:
1. Ecocriticism: environmental justice, communication and education, climate change and other ecological and technological disasters.
2.Technology and Literature: technocracies, ‘corporatocracies’ and consumption in contemporary American and African novels.
3. Cosmopolitan and geopolitical Novels: cosmopolitan education and communities, hospitality, international travels and immigration, and human rights.
4. African Literature: postcolonial history, trauma and healing, role of orature and intextextuality, tyranny and violence, and immigration.
5.Postmodern and Experimental Literature.
6. Education and Literature: the university novel and film
7. Law and Literature: human rights, social justice,
8. Science, medicine and literature: role of plagues, biotechnologies, paranoia, medicine and public education
9.Disaster capitalism in American drama, novel and film.
10. Religious Discourses and Representation in Contemporary American and African Novels by Robert Coover, E. L Doctorow, Leslie Silko, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, Ben Okri and others.
11.Creative and Academic Writing