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James Tar Tsaaior is a Nigerian academic, writer, critic, poet, biographer, journalist and media consultant. He is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Mass Media and Writing in the School of Media and Communication, Pan-African University, Lagos where he teaches creative writing, media/cultural studies, postcolonial literatures and literary/media theory. He is also the Director, Academic Planning of the University and editor, Journal of Cultural and Media Studies. Between 2010 – 2011, he was a visiting Research Fellow, Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and a participant in the International Faculty Programme, University of Navarre IESE Buisness School, Barcelona, Spain. His publications include: Books Journalism and New Media Technologies in Africa, Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation, Lagos,2011 (edited with Biakolo E., Tam-George, A. and Agina, A.)

(ed) Politics of the Postcolonial Text: Africa and Its Diasporas, Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilisation, Lagos, 2010.

Moments and Monuments. Free Enterprise Publishers, Lagos (poetry)

Journal Articles (2011), “Tropologies of Tradition and (Post)Modernity in Mark Nwagwu's Forever Chimes.” CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 13.1 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol13/iss1/4 (Purdue University, United States of America).

(2011), “Exile, Exilic Consciousness and the Poetic Imagination in Tanure Ojaide’s Poetry” in Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde 48 (1): 98 – 109, (University of Pretoria, South Africa).

(2011), “Lynn Chukura and the New Feminist Poetic in Nigeria” in Women’s Studies. Vol. 40, 1. 48 – 69, (London and New York: Routledge).

(2011), “Wole Soyinka and the Logic of a Democratic Ideal in a Postcolonial State” Imbizo 2 (3): 138 – 148, (University of South Africa).

(2010), “Contesting (In)Visibility in Public Spaces: Poetics, Politics and Women in Africa” in Dialogue: A Journal Devoted to Literary Appreciation, (Special Issue on Literature of the Marginals) Volume VII,  No. II (December 2010): 29-40 www.dialoguethejournal.com/contents.htm

(2010), “Webbed Words: Masked Meanings: Proverbiality and Narrative/Discursive Strategies” in D.T. Niane's Sundiata: An Epic of Mali”. Proverbium 27:339-362, (University of Vermont, USA).

(2010), “In the Name of the Father…Masculinity, Gender Politics and National Identity Formation in Postcolonial Nigeria” in Le Simplegadi, 8: 8, 36 – 47. http://all.uniud.it/simplegadi (University of Udine, Italy).