Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba is an assistant professor of English. His work focuses broadly on contemporary African literatures. His current research examines representations of mass atrocities and genocides in Africa. He is currently at work on two book projects: a book monograph entitled “Writing Postcolonial African Genocides,” and a collaborative book project entitled “The African Novel and the Reconstruction of Usable Pasts.” Anyaduba is a recipient of several prestigious awards, including a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for his doctoral dissertation at the University of Manitoba, and a J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for his research on “African” genocides.