Ernest Okello Ogwang

Ernest Okello Ogwang is a former Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic Affairs) at Makerere University. He is a holder of a Ph.D in Literature – Folklore Major (Indiana University, Bloomington), an MA and BA (Hons) in Literature (Makerere University). His areas of teaching and research specialty include; African Literature, Folklore and Literature, Oral Literature, Folklore (Genres and Artifacts, Methods, Intellectual History, Performance), Ethnographic Field Research and Literary Theory and Criticism. He has taught various courses at Makerere University in the areas of; African Literature, Oral Literature, Literature and Folklore: fieldwork course, Caribbean Literature, Ritual and Literature, Comparative Epic Poetry, Postcolonial Literature and Criticism, Selected Authors (Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Okot p’Bitek, Chinua Achebe, J. M. Coetzee, V. S. Naipaul)