NAME: Dr. Ngozi Udengwu
POSITION: Senior Lecturer
CONTACT ADDRESS: Department of Theatre and Film Studies University of Nigeria, 410001, Nsukka
E-mail address: ngozi.udengwu@unn.edu.ng
Telephone: 08034715635
Brief Biography
Dr. Ngozi Udengwu is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dramatic Arts and a Master of Arts in Literature from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She has a PhD in Theatre Arts from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She teaches courses and supervises projects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. She has presented papers at over twenty conferences both nationally and internationally and has over fifteen publications, including a book, some scholarly journal articles as well as some book chapters and has conducted workshops on literacy and reading for the UNICEF Field ‘A’ Projects. Her PhD thesis discovered seven active female playwrights in Nigeria, one of whom is believed to be the most prolific theatre director in Nigeria. Ngozi Udengwu is currently a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Society, which is about to document, for the first time, the contributions of women in the Yoruba Travelling Theatre of Nigeria. She is a member of several learned societies, including the Society of Nigerian Theatre Artists, International Federation for Theatre Research, African Theatre Association, African Theatre and Performance Working Group, International Reading Association, African Literature Association and Arterial Network and others.
