Biography

Dr. Vincent R. Ogoti is a tenure-track Assistant Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Clemson University. He was a Mellon Public Humanities Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Center for Humanities, a Storytelling Fellow at Madison Youth Arts Center (MYArts), the inaugural African Studies Program Fellow at UW-Madison, and a Fulbright Fellow at Yale University. He is a scholar of biopolitics, subjectivity, and postcoloniality with a primary emphasis on global Black literature and culture.

Dr. Ogoti holds a PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an MA from the University of Notre Dame, and a bachelor’s degree with honors from the University of Nairobi. He is also a trained journalist and mass communication specialist. His research has appeared in the Journal of the African Literature Association, the Journal of African Cultural Studies, Brittle Paper, the Nordic Journal of African Studies, the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies, and Matatu: Journal of African Literary and Cultural Studies.

Dr. Ogoti is an experienced storyteller and editor. He has authored and co-produced four plays, including A Shadow in the Sun (2019) and Echoes of Green (2025).

He founded Strategic Narratives Lab, a Narrative Policy Analysis (NPA) initiative that assists clients in designing, framing, monitoring, and evaluating storytelling campaigns that shift public perceptions.