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Dr. Vincent R. Ogoti is an Assistant Professor of English and Global Black Studies at Clemson University, SC. He was Andrew W. Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Humanities and Storytelling and Community Access Fellow at Madison Youth Arts Center (MYArts), 2022-2023. He was also the Inaugural African Studies Program Fellow at UW-Madison, 2020-2022, and a Fulbright Fellow at Yale University, 2014-2015. His scholarship focuses on biopolitics, violence, and subjectivity, with a primary emphasis on African, African American, and Caribbean literature and drama.

Ogoti earned his PhD in African Cultural Studies and History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MA in 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 a playwright and has authored and co-produced four plays. His most recent play, A Shadow in the Sun, problematizes 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 appeal to moral imagination.

Dr. Ogoti is also the curator of the Peace Narratives Lab, which develops strategic peace narratives in contexts with competing conflict narratives.