Rosemary Kasiobi Nwadike

• B.A. English and Literary Studies (University of Nigeria, Nsukka), M.A. Cultural Studies and Critical Theory (McMaster University)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Women’s Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Indigenous African Studies, Media Studies, Migration Studies

CURRENT RESEARCH: 
My doctoral project examines how African popular culture and mainstream media cast feminism as misandrist, anti-family, and un-African, and how African feminist writers respond as a form of resistance and intervention. I analyze popular literature, television, radio, social media, and the mainstream press to show how feminism has been framed as a (neo)colonial influence built on Western values, thereby alienating women from African culture. I consider how African feminism is portrayed across a range of literary texts and media case studies, highlighting both the charges against feminism, and challenges to the idea that it is the exclusive preserve of elite, educated women who are misandrist and anti-family.

PUBLICATIONS:
– “Feminist Miseducation in the Afro-West: Examining (In)Formal Gender Indoctrinations.” Public Intellectuals Project, 2025.
– “Systemic Marginalization: The Criminalization and Militarization of Nigerian Youths.” Public Intellectuals Project, 2025.

CONFERENCES:
– “The Decoloniality of the Nigerian Political Language.” Canadian Association of African Studies, June 2025, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, CA.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
– Guest Lecturer, AFRI 2005A: West Africa, Carleton University, 2025
– Graduate Teaching Assistant, ENGL 2920A: Topics in Migration and Decolonization, Carleton University, 2025.
– Graduate Teaching Assistant, ENGLISH 2KK3: Studies in Women Writers, McMaster University, 2025.
– Graduate Teaching Assistant, ENGLISH 2CC3: Settler Colonialism and Writing in Canada, McMaster University, 2024.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
– Research Assistant, English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University, 2025.
– Research Assistant, Archives and Research Collections, Mills Memorial Library, McMaster University, 2025.
– Research Assistant, “Literature and Economy of Photography: A Case Study of African Protest Industry”, African Literature and Culture, University of Bristol, 2021.

AWARDS:
– Naida Waite Scholarship (2025)