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Dr. Vincent R. Ogoti is an Assistant Professor of English and Global Black Studies at Clemson University. His scholarship focuses on biopolitics, violence, and subjectivity, with a primary emphasis on African, African American, and Caribbean literature and culture.

He was Andrew W. Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Humanities, Storytelling and Community Access Fellow at Madison Youth Arts Center (MYArts), Inaugural African Studies Program Fellow at UW-Madison, and Teaching Academy Fellow at UW-Madison. He was also a Fulbright Fellow at Yale University.

Dr. Ogoti earned his Ph.D. (African Cultural Studies and History) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. (International Peace Studies) from the University of Notre Dame.

His research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of the African Literature Association, Journal of African Cultural Studies, Nordic Journal of African Studies, and the Brittle Paper.  

Dr. Ogoti is an award-winning literary editor and playwright. He has authored and co-produced four plays, and his most recent play, A Shadow in the Sun, problematizes complex and challenging issues, such as gender and sexuality, and their representation in art to demonstrate that when society encounters issues that are not amenable to any easy solution, it should not only appeal to its moral imagination, but also seek to transform it.

Dr. Ogoti is a narrative policy analyst and the curator of the Peace Narratives Lab, which develops strategic peace narratives.