CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Anasiudu, Okwudiri

Date of Birth: 5th of April, 1985
Address: NIFES, University of Port Harcourt Secretariat, Choba
Cell Phone Number: 07063979111, 08158065613
Email Address: okwudiri.anasiudu@uniport.edu.ng
Marital Status: Single
Number/Ages of Children: None

SCHOOLS ATTENDED
2021, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State,
2018, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State
2014, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State
2006, Community Secondary School Elele-Alimini
2021, Anambra State Primary School

DEGREES OBTAINED
2021, PhD in African Literature, defended on 31st of January, 2022, (awaiting senate
approval of my result (this is delayed due to the ASUU STRIKE)
2018, Master of Arts, 4.53 on a 5-point scale
2014, Bachelor of Arts, First Class 4.64 on a 5-point scale
2006, West African Examination Certificate, National Examination Council
2021, Anambra State Primary School Leaving Certificate

WORK EXPERIENCES
2018, Till Date - School of Basic Studies, University of Port Harcourt, teaching Hum
050.1

2019, till date- Facilitator at Heritage Academy House on the Rock Church Port Harcourt

2015, (NYSC) Government Secondary School, the English Language, Teacher at Ibbi, in
Mokwa Local Government, Niger State taught SS3-SS1 Students

2014- United Nations Education Programme Officer in lieu with the Port Harcourt World
Book Capital- Places of Primary Assignments were St. Andrew School Mile 3 Diobu
Port Harcourt, and International Secondary School RSUST.

2007-2012, Sales Representative Bucco Communications in charge of customer service

and marketing
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Anasiudu, O. (2022). Re-thinking Afropolitanism: the kinship and differences. African

Identities, Taylor and Francis 1-17.

Anasiudu, O. (2022). Nnimmo Bassey’s Aesthetic Imagination and Social Meaning in We

Thought It Was Oil But It Was Blood. Journal of Language and Literature, 22(1).

Anasiudu, O. (2021). The afropolitan identity as a rhizome. ELS Journal on

Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. 4(3), 337-346.

Anasiudu, O., Omeh, N., Oyeh, O. (2020). Cultural intersection: A Survey of selected novels on
African diaspora. Ikogho a multi-disciplinary journal 19(2).

Anasiudu, O., Oyeh, O., Omeh, N. (2020). Culture, diaspora and afropolitanism in the wake of
globalisation. Working papers journal of English studies, volume 10, NO. 2,
January.

Anasiudu, O. (2020). Mobility Trope: Travelling as a Signature of the Afropolitan Female Quest
for Existential Subjectivity in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street. In Journal of
Gender and Power Vol. 14, No. 2, 2020, 123-141, DOI: 10.2478/jgp-2020-0017.
Anasiudu, O. (2020). Stylistics: Theory and Practice, by Ikenna Kamalu. Imbizo, 11(1), 7-
pages.

Anasiudu, O. (2020). The Functions of Deictic Words in the Representation of Migrants’

Experiences in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2013). Imbizo, 11(1), 1-19.
Anasiudu, O. & Kamalu I. (2019). “The functions of signs and structures in ben okri’s
astonishing the gods: A functional linguistics approach”. In Omeh Obasi Ngwoke (Ed),
Working papers, journal of english studies Vol.8 NO. 1. pp 188-203, March. Choba:
University of Port Harcourt Press Ltd.
Anasiudu, O. (2017). Perspectives in the nigerian novel: An examination of heteroglossia,
double consciousness and multivoicedness in chinua achebe’s arrow of god and things
fall apart. In the Internet Journal Language, Culture and Society.
URL:http://aaref.com.au/en/publications/journal/ISSN 1327-774.
Anasiudu, O., & Brown, Toyin. (2019). The Logic of Linguistic Form: A Sociolinguistic
Functional Reading of Obari Gomba’s “She Reminds me of Hecuba”. Journal of the
English Language Teachers Association of Nigeria, Volume 9, (pp. 81-87).
Chinaka, P., & Anasiudu, O. (2017). The dilemma of shakespearean tragedy and contemporary
nigerian perspectives. In The Internet Journal Language, Culture and Society URL:
http://aaref.com.au/en/publications/journal/ ISSN 1327-774X.
Nwanyanwu, A. U., Anasiudu, O. (2019). Trauma of nation and narrative of suffering in
Chimamanda adichie’s half of a yellow sun. International journal of innovative literature,
language & art 8(1).
BOOK CHAPTERS
Chinaka, P. and Anasiudu, O. (2019). “Translation and Implications: Locating Chinua Achebe’s
Things Fall Apart in the Context of World Literature”. In A.N Akwanya and
Nnanyelugo Okoro (Eds) The Dance of the Future is Born, Chinua Achebe and Us. Prize
Publishers Limited, 154-173.

Chinaka, P. & Anasiudu, O. (2019). Signs, significations and Functions: A semiotic

approach to tanure ojaide’s delta blue and home song. In Onookome Okome and Obari
Gomba (Eds) Tanure Ojaide: Life, literature and the environment (essays) pp 60- 67.
Cissus World Press.

Ngwoke, O. Anasiudu, O. (2022). Language use in the discourse of otherness in Bessie Head’s
Maru. In Legacies of Departed African Women Writers. Lexington Books. An imprint
of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200 •
Lanham, Maryland 20706.

CONFERENCES ATTENDED
University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Institutes of African Studies, 4th Chinua Achebe
International Conference on Re-evaluation of African Values and Culture in the Face of
Crises of 21st Century, held from Monday 8th and Thursday 11th March 2021.

University of Port Harcourt International Conference on English Language and

Literature, held on the 3rd – 6th of September 2019, at the University of Port Harcourt.

The 3rd International Conference on Tanure Ojaide: Life, Literature and the
Environment. 4th of May, 2018. University of Port Harcourt

The 34th Annual Conference of the English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria held from
the 18th to the 21st of September, 2018 at the Princess Alexandra Auditorium, University
of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Gabriel Okara Literary Festival: 25- 26 April 2017. Theme: “Nigerian Literature since
Gabriel Okara: Departure and Continuities.” Venue: University of Port Harcourt, Choba

English Language Teachers’ Association of Nigeria Conference, held at the University of

Port Harcourt, 2016

PAPERS PRESENTED
Theorizing Afropolitanism, a paper presented at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka,
Institutes of African Studies, 4th Chinua Achebe International Conference on Re-
evaluation of African Values and Culture in the Face of Crises of 21 st Century, held on
Monday 8th and Thursday 11th March 2021.
 The Functions of Deictic Words in the Representation of Migrant Experiences in
NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names 2019 presented at University of Port
Harcourt International Conference on English Language and Literature, held on the 3rd –
6th of September 2019, at the University of Port Harcourt.
Community Services and Volunteer Works
Currently, a Volunteer Traffic Control Person at House on the Rock on Sundays from 7
am to 11:30 am

Volunteered for a Community awareness programme on skills, health and a positive

lifestyle at riverine communities in Rivers State which are cut off from the city to rural.

Coordinator of Final Year Students at the University of Port Harcourt, for NIFES in
2013-2014
AWARDS AND OTHER CERTIFICATES
 Outstanding Male Student, Heritage Academy
 NUNA Mentor Recognition Award for Selfless Service and Dedication
 NASELS Uniport Award for Positive Impact upon the Lives of Students
 NUNA Alumni Award of Academic Excellence
 Certificate of Merit: Best Graduating Student in English Studies
 Certificate of Merit: Professor C.E. Nnolim Prize
 Yali African Leaders Initiative Conference for Emerging Entrepreneurs on the 10th-11th
April 2018 Port Harcourt
 Nigeria Christian Corpers’ Fellowship Niger State Chapter Certificate of Honour 2015
 National Youth Service Corp 2015
 Believer’s Loveworld University of Port Harcourt- Christ Embassy- Ultimate Class
Certificate 2014
 Nigeria Fellowship of Evangelical Student Foundation School Certificate 2014
 Faculty of Humanities Certificate of Academic Excellence 2013
 Catalyst Certificate on Leadership and Nation-building 2010
 Centre for Development Support Initiatives’ Certificate for Peer Educators on HIV/AIDS
and Adolescent Reproductive Health. 2005
 Certificate of Participation in Improving Human Capacity for Cutting Edge Tutoring
2020
Referees
Professor Margaret Fafa Nutsukpo
Head, Department of English Studies

Dr Omeh Ngwoke
Graduate Chairperson
English Studies Department

Madam Vera Otamiri

Secretary to the Vice-Chancellor
University of Port Harcourt