Spring 2021 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, English
Chijioke Onah holds a combined honors bachelor’s degree in English literature and history from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Before coming to Cornell, he studied at Goethe University of Frankfurt; Utrecht University, Netherlands; and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in postcolonial and world literatures in the Department of English. His ongoing research focuses on the emergence of #BringBackOurGirls as global activism that bears witness to Boko Haram terrorism worldwide. He is currently exploring the (bio)politics of waste and disposability in the African diaspora.