51ĀŅĀ×

Ghirmai Negash is Professor of English & African Literature in the English Department and Director of the African Studies Program at 51ĀŅĀ×.

Education

Ph.D., Leiden University, The Netherlands;

Scholarly Focus

Negash was the founder and former chair of the Department of Eritrean Languages and Literature at the University of Asmara (2001-2005). His research interests include African literatures from the Horn of Africa and South Africa, critical theory, and translation.

Publications

He is the author of A History of Tigrinya Literature in Eritrea and The Freedom of the Writer & Other Cultural and Literary Essays (in Tigrinya), and co-translator and editor of Who Needs a Story?

His work has also appeared in journals and edited volumes including Teaching Life Writing Texts, eds. Fuchs, M. and C. Howes (New York: MLA, 2008), Research in African Literatures 40.3 (2009), Biography 32.1 (2009), Imbizo: International Journal of African Literary and Comparative Studies (2)2010, and Dirty Goat 25 (2011).

Recent additions to his publication are an Introduction to Phaswane Mpeā€™s novel Welcome to Our Hillbrow (51ĀŅĀ× Press), and a Translation of Gebreyesus Hailuā€™s novel The Conscript (51ĀŅĀ× Press).

Courses Taught

• ENG 780: Post Colonial African Literature
• ENG 453: Studies in World Literature
• ENG 399: Critical Theory
• ENG 537: Critical Theory (Graduate)