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“I slept and dreamt that life was joy.I awoke and saw that life was a service.I acted and behold, service was a joy.”

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Dr. Vincent Ogoti is an Assistant Professor of English and Global Black Studies at Clemson University, SC. He uses humanities and social science tools to build peaceful and sustainable communities. He was Andrew W. Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Humanities, the Inaugural African Studies Program Fellow at UW-Madison, and a Fulbright Fellow at Yale University. A scholar of biopolitics, violence, race, and postcoloniality, Vincent’s research primarily explores African, African American, and Caribbean literatures, theater, and new media.

Dr. Ogoti earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. from the University of Notre Dame. His research has appeared in the Journal of the African Literature Association, Journal of African Cultural Studies, and Brittle Paper.

Dr. Ogoti is a playwright and has authored and co-produced four plays.  He is also the curator of the Peace Narratives Lab, which develops strategic peace narratives in contexts with competing conflict narratives.

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