Gitahi Gititi, PhD

Professor of English and African & Afro-American Studies

Ph.D. University of Minnesota
MA University of Nairobi, Kenya
BEd Kenyatta University

Office: 148 Independence Hall
Phone: 401-874-4661
E-Mail: ggi4535u@postoffice.uri.edu
Office Hours: by appointment

Gitahi Gititi is professor of English, Film and Media Studies, African and
African American Studies. His scholarly and creative work has appeared in THE JOHNS HOPKINS GUIDE TO LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM, ATLANTIC LITERARY REVIEW, PAINTBRUSH, CURRENT WRITING, RACE IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM: PEDAGOGY AND POLITICS, THE COMPANION TO AFRICAN LITERATURES, ATQ: NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE, LEFT CURVE, NGUGI WA THIONG'O: TEXTS AND CONTEXTS, METAMORPHOSES 2, ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN LITERATURE, MWIHOKO, MUTIIRI, NYUMBA NI IMWE.

Gitahi is a poet, short fiction writer, and multilingual translator. HIs works in non-European languages include two
Gikuyu-language collections of poems called MUKUNGA-MBURA GUTARI MATU (Rainbow in an Arid Sky) by Africa World Press and MBOOMU IRATUTHUKIRE NAIROBI (Bomb[in'] Nairobi) by Ngoro Njega Publications. Numerous essays, poems, and short stories have also appeared in the Gikuyu-language Journal of Art and Culture, MUTIIRI, of which heis a
founding editor. His feature articles also appear in the Gikuyu-language newspaper, MWIHOKO, published in Murang'a, Kenya.