I am a lecturer in Theatre Studies at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester where I teach theatre history and literary theory. I studied at the University of Calabar, Nigeria, and the University of Ghana, Legon, and received a PhD in African Studies from the University of Cape Town in 2018. My PhD was fully funded by the Postgraduate School, University of Cape Town and my research has received funding from African Critical Inquiry Programme-Ivan Karp Doctoral Research Awards (University of Emory, USA, and University of Western Cape, South Africa), Social Science Research Council (SSRC-USA), and African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS-USA). I am a fellow of the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes (CHCI).

My teaching and research focus on the intersection of Anglophone theatre and literary cultures in the context of Environmental Justice, Energy cultures, Water /Blue Humanities and Waste aesthetics. My monograph, The Dialogue between Oil and Water in the Niger Delta is forthcoming on the Routledge Studies on World Literature and the Environment.