Juliane Okot Bitek
Assistant Professor
Black Studies; Gender Studies
Joint Appointment: English
PhD (Interdisciplinary Studies), University of British Columbia
MA (English), University of British Columbia
BFA (Creative Writing), University of British Columbia
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Research interests: Dr. Juliane Okot Bitek is a poet and scholar. Her 100 Days, a collection of poetry on how to remember the 1994 Rwanda Genocide, won the 2017 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry and the INDIEFAB Book of the Year (Poetry) Award. It was also nominated for several writing prizes. Juliane鈥檚 most recent academic articles and contributions include: 鈥淲hat Choices Between Nightmares: Intersecting Local, Global and Intimate Stories of Pain in Peacebuilding鈥 Peace Building and the Arts (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2020); and 鈥淐onversations at the Crossroads: Indigenous and Black Writers Talk鈥, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature (2020) and 鈥淭reachery as Colonial Intent: A Poetic Response鈥 Critical African Studies (2022); and 鈥淪tates of Being: The Poet & Scholar as a Black, African, & Diasporic Woman鈥, Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy: Teaching, Learning and Researching While Black, edited by Awad Ibrahim et al (U of Toronto Press, 2022). A is for Acholi, a poetry collection, was published by Wolsak and Wynn (2022). The last of the trilogy of poetry books, Song & Dread, is forthcoming in spring 2023 with Talon Books. She is an Assistant Professor in the Black Studies Program at Queen鈥檚 University, joint appointed in Gender Studies and English.
Photo credit: Greg Black photography