Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru
Professor Emeritus of English
- Mailing Address
- Loyola University New Orleans
Department of English
6363 St. Charles Ave.
Campus Box 50
New Orleans, LA 70118 - E-mail Address
- egejuru@loyno.edu
Areas of Expertise
Composition, Short Fiction, Black Literature, Black Aesthetics, 19th-Century British Fiction, Victorian England.
Degrees
Ph.D., University of California in Los Angeles; M.P.H., University of California in Los Angeles; M.A., University of California in Los Angeles, B.A., University of Minnesota
Short Bio
Prof. Phanuel Akubueze Egejuru has studied in Nigeria, Senegal, Ivory Coast and France. He migrated to the University of Minnesota and graduated Magna cum Laude, French. Moving to UCLA, she obtained her M.A., M.P.H. and Ph.D. in Comp. Lit. She taught at UCLA, and in Tanzania, New York, Nigeria, and Rhode Island before Loyola. A Professor of English at Loyola, Egejuru taught Composition, Short Fiction, Black Literature and Black Aesthetics. She also taught nineteenth-century British fiction and Victorian England. She has published books in literary criticism, a novel, and poeticized proverbs.