Open Session for Department of Race, Religion, Gender and Multidisciplinary Studies Director March 7 | https://www.wiu.edu/_resources/_redesign/images/wlogo.png
Open Session for Department of Race, Religion, Gender and Multidisciplinary Studies Director March 7 | https://www.wiu.edu/_resources/_redesign/images/wlogo.png
An open session for one candidate for the open position of chair of the Western Illinois University Department of Race, Religion, Gender and Multidisciplinary Studies will be held from 3-4 p.m. Tuesday, March 7 in Horrabin Hall, room 1, or over Zoom.
Dike Okoro, associate professor of English in the Humanities Department at Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis, MO. will visit Macomb March 6-7.
Okoro has been an associate professor at Harris-Stowe State University since 2022. Previously, he was an associate professor and chair of Humanities at Harris Stowe State University from 2017-21; assistant professor of English at Olive Harvey College from 2009-12; a lecturer in English at Northwestern University in Chicago from 2012-17; adjunct instructor at Concordia University Wisconsin, in Mequon from 2014-15; an adjunct instructor at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago from 2010-11 and a teaching assistant at Chicago State University in 2004.
To register for the public session Zoom, visit bit.ly/WIUOKORO.
Okoro received his bachelor's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin Parkside; his master's degree in English (African American Literature) from Chicago State University; his MFA in poetry from Chicago State University and his doctoral degree in English from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.
To see Okoro's complete vita and campus itinerary, visit wiu.edu/employment
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