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Paul Ugor grew up in Obudu, a small town in Cross Rivers State, Nigeria. He completed his B.A. in Theatre Studies at the University of Calabar in 1996 and earned an M.A. in Theatre and Film at the University of Ibadan in 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta in 2009, specializing in African and Postcolonial/World Literatures. His main areas of research and publishing include modern African literature and film, Nollywood cinema, African youth cultures, and Black popular culture.

Currently, Paul Ugor is working on a monograph focusing on the screen media output of Nigeria’s leading film director and TV producer, Femi Odugbemi. He is also involved in two edited volumes: one on the Postcolonial Bildungsroman (in collaboration with Arnab Roy of Florida Gulf Coast University) and another on Narratives of Transitional Justice in World Literatures (with Bonny Ibhawoh of McMaster University).

His research interests broadly concern new social processes in global politics, economy, information and communication technologies, cultural representations and everyday life, and the social responses these activities elicit from the public domain, particularly from marginalized groups such as racial minorities in the global north, youth, women, and disenfranchised subjects in postcolonial settings.