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Blessing Diala-Ogamba PhD
5th Floor, Room 503
2500 W North Ave
Baltimore, MD 21216
Blessing Diala-Ogamba (PhD) is Professor of English and Chair of Humanities Department at 天美视频, Baltimore, Maryland. Her research interests are gender and women issues, World Literature and Culture, and immigration. She is the author of Visions on Womanhood in Contemporary African Literature (Lexington Books, 2021); and several articles in scholarly books and journals. She is co-editor of three books, including Deconstructing Boundaries: A Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Chioma Carol Opara (Ibadan, Nigeria: University Press, 2024); Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo (Lexington Books, 2017); and Literary Crossroads: An International Exploration of Women, Gender, and Otherhood (Lexington Books, 2013). Dr. Diala-Ogamba is a Quality Matters Reviewer.
Book Publications:
Ogbujah, Columbus and Diala-Ogamba. Deconstructing Boundaries: A Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Chioma Carol Opara. University Press, Ibadan, 2024.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. Visions of Womanhood in Contemporary African literature. Lanham: Lexington, 2021.
Sackeyfio, Rose and Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. Eds. Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. Lanham: Lexington, 2017.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing and Elaine Sykes. Eds. Literary Crossroads: An International Exploration of Women, Gender, and Otherhood. Lanham: Lexington, 2015.
Publications鈥擟hapters in Books:
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淧olitics of Resistance in Nuruddin Farah鈥檚 Trilogy鈥. Deconstructing Boundaries: A Festschrift in Honor of Prof. Chioma Carol Opara. University Press, Ibadan, 2024.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淔rom Passivity to Defiance: The Portrayal of Women in Yvonne Vera鈥檚 Novels鈥 in Legacies of the Departed African Female Writers. Eds. Helen Chukwuma and Chioma Carol Opara. Lanham鈥 Lexington Books, 2022.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淣arratives of Trauma and Struggle in Chimamanda Adichie鈥檚 Half of a Yellow Sun鈥. Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War: Reframing Gender and Conflict in Africa. Eds. Gloria Chuku and Sussie Aham-Okoro. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淪isters in the Struggle; Women鈥檚 Resistance in Akachi-Adimora-Ezeigbo鈥檚 Trafficked and Chika Unigwe鈥檚 On Black Sisters Street鈥. Emerging Perspectives on Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo. Eds. Sackeyfio, and Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. Lanham: Lexington, 2017.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淕lobal Issues: Gender and Socio-Cultural Awareness in Elizabeth Nunez鈥 Beyond the Limbo Silence and Prospero鈥檚 Daughter鈥 Meeting Points in Black/Africana Women鈥檚 Literature. Eds. Chukwuma, Helen and Preselfannie Whitfield McDaniels. Trento: Africa World Press, 2016
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淪upernatural Elements in Toni Morrison鈥檚 Beloved鈥. Critical Insights: Beloved by Toni Morrison. Ed. Maureen N. Eke. Ipswich, Massachusetts, Salem Press, 2015.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淥n Their Own Terms: Renegotiating Patriarchal Laws According to Farah鈥檚 Ebla and El Sadaawi鈥檚 Firdaus鈥. Literary Crossroads: An International Exploration of Women, Gender, and otherhood. Eds. Diala-Ogamba, Blessing and Elaine Sykes. Lanham: Lexington, 2015
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Struggles and Resistance in Sembene Ousmane鈥檚 God鈥檚 Bits of Wood.鈥 Writing the Female Image in African Fiction. Ed. Sophie Ogwude. Ibadan: University of Ibadan Press, 2013.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淐anons of Victimization and Non-Conformism in Nuruddin Farah鈥檚 Blood in the Sun Trilogy鈥. Critical Issues in African: Twenty-First Century and Beyond. Port Harcourt: University of Port Harcourt Press, 2013
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淐hildren of the Home: Ezinma, Beauty to Behold鈥. Achebe's Women: Imagism and Power. Ed Helen Chukwuma. Trenton: Africa World Press. 2012
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淧ortrayal of Womanhood in Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Ezeigbo's The last of the Strong Ones鈥. Achebe's Women: Imagism and Power. Ed Helen Chukwuma. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2012.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淐orruption and Rape of the Land in Osonye Tess Onwueme鈥檚 Shakara, Dance Hall Queen, Then She said, What Mama Said and No Vacancy鈥. From Boom to Doom: Protest and Conflict Resolution in the Literature of the Niger Delta. Ed.Chinyere Nwahunanya. Owerri: Springfield, 2011.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淎buse of Power in Nawal El Saadawi鈥檚 Love in the Kingdom of Oil and God Dies by the Nile鈥. Eds. Emenyonu. Ernest and Maureen Eke. Emerging Perspectives on Nawal El Saadawi. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2010.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淕ender, Ethnicity and Sexuality in Recent Nigerian Movies鈥. Ed. Udumukwu, Onyemaechi. Nigerian Literature in English: Emerging Perspectives. Port Harcourt: M&J Grand Orbit, 2007.
Diala-Ogamba, Blessing. 鈥淭he Non-Conformist Women in Nurrudin Farah鈥檚 Blood of the Sun Trilogy鈥 in Mezu, Rose.
Chair, Department of Humanities.
Board Member: (ERICA)--Episcopal Refugee & Immigrant Center Alliance
Board Member: (COM)--Commission on Ministry for the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland
Executive Member: (WOCALA)--Women Caucus of African Literature Association
- PhD in English & Literature, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 1995
- M. ED in Secondary Education, Worchester State College, Massachusetts, 2001
- M. PHIL in English & Literature, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, 1990
- M.A. in English, University of Calabar, Nigeria, 1985
- B.A. (HON) English/Education, University of Calabar, Nigeria,1984; (bachelor鈥檚 with certification in English, Grades 5-12)
- N.C.E. (National Certificate in Education- Nigeria), 1980
Member: African Studies Association
Member: African Literature Association
Member: College Language Association
Member: Langston Hughes Society
Member: Northeast Modern Language Association
- World Literature and Cultural Studies
- Women and Gender Studies
- Migration and Immigration
- Received Mini-Grant award on Research at 天美视频 in May 2016.
- Received Certificate for presenting at 天美视频 Faculty Research and Development Conference, November 20, 2015
- Received Certificate of Completion for At-Risk for University and College Faculty, December 8, 2015
- Received Certificate of Completion for QM Rubric Update in July 2014.
- Received a Mini-Grant award on Research at 天美视频 in March 2014.
- Received Sloan-C Certificate specializing in Online Design and Delivery Track, March 2013.
- Received a Certificate for completing the Quality Matters Rubric Update, February 2012.
- Received a Mini-Grant award on Research at 天美视频 in May 2011.
- Received a Mini-Grant award on Research at 天美视频 in May 2009.
- Certificate of Completion for the Faculty Writing Institute. June 22nd-26, 2009.
- Received a certificate for the Completion of Quality Matters Training in March 2007.
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