The Department of Culture is pleased to announce that
Jairus Omuteche has been awarded a PhD. His thesis,
Representations of Home in Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Toni Morrison: (Re) Vision of Identity and Belonging, was supervised by Drs
Kath Kerr-Koch (Director of Studies) and
Geoff Nash. Jairus began his doctoral studies - which were funded by a studentship from the
Cultural and Regional Studies Beacon - in June 2010. His future research will focus on comparative and postcolonial literatures within the nexus of representations of globalization and diasporic identities and belonging. Dr Omuteche will be resuming his lectureship in the
Department of Languages and Literature Studies at Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology in Kenya.
