Dr Daniel Chukwuemeka

Leverhulme Fellow

Department: Humanities

I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in English Literature, with my research project entitled ‘Delinquent Bodies: Blackness and Racial Capitalism in Afrodiasporic Literature’. I earned my PhD in Postcolonial African Literature and Culture from the University of Bristol in 2023 under a fully funded cotutelle supervision arrangement with Macquarie University.

My thesis is currently being revised into a monograph titled African Hustler Narratives: E-fraud Economy in Postcolonial Nigerian Literature, as well as adapted into a documentary film – African Robinhood: The Making of a Prodigal Scammer.

I have taught literature courses in Nigeria, England, and Australia, including Godfrey Okoye University, University of Nigeria, Bournemouth University, University of Bristol, and Macquarie University. Prior to joining Northumbria, I have worked as a language editor for the Oxford English Dictionaries in Germany, and completed a research visit at Carleton University, Canada funded by the Mitacs Globalink Research Awards.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Postcolonial and Global Black Literatures; African Diasporic Literatures; Global Migration; Studies in Literature, Race, and Economics; Gender and Minority Studies; Media and Cultural Studies

Key Publications

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Coming of Age in a Hustler Economy: E-fraud Narratives and the Postcolonial African Bildungsroman, Chukwuemeka, D. 2 Apr 2024, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place, Lincoln, US, University of Nebraska Press
The Sound of Silent Memories: Negotiating Cultural Memory through Urban Noise in Teju Cole’s Open City, Chukwuemeka, D. 2020, Vernon Press, Vernon Press
Hustler Masculinity in the Nigerian E-fraud Novel, Chukwuemeka, D. 1 Jun 2022, In: Research in African Literatures
E-fraud economy as an emergent perspective towards the corpus of African hustler narratives, Chukwuemeka, D. 17 Mar 2021, In: Journal of the African Literature Association