Sopuruchi Frank

I am a doctoral researcher in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. My academic background includes a BA in English Language and Literature and an MA in African Literature. I taught for four years in the Department of English and Literature at Abia State University, Uturu. I  worked as an Associate Tutor at the University of East Anglia, where I assisted in teaching an undergraduate literature course. My PhD research explores how Nigerian queer literature challenges the dominance of heteropatriarchal perspective in literature, revealing literature’s role as a critical space for the emergence of gendered and sexual identities, and the reimagining of Nigerian subjectivities. I focus on how Nigerian texts respond to normative structures and articulate resistance through literary form and discourse. My areas of interest include gender and sexuality, African literature, Postcolonialism, queer studies, feminism, cultural studies.