Andrew Horn

Educated at Dartmouth College and Columbia University, Professor Andrew Horn has published research in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, African Literature, American Literature, Education, Current Affairs, the Media, and Popular Culture. He has lived on four continents and held posts at universities in nine countries.

He has held the University Professorship of English and the Chair of the Department of Literature and Language at the University of the South Pacific and has been a Research Fellow of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at the Hutchins Center of Harvard University.

He has also served as the Chair of the English Department at the National University of Lesotho, in southern Africa, and the Chair of Performing Arts at Africa’s largest university, the Ahmadu Bello University, in Nigeria.

He has also taught Literature and Theatre at the University of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland; Uganda’s Makerere University; the University of Zambia; and both Indiana University and Tufts University, in the United States.

For two years, he was the invited Professor of Postcolonial English Literature at the University of Paris and has been a Visiting Professor of American Cultural History at the Middle East Technical University (METU), in Ankara, Turkey and in Lefkosa/Nicosia, Northern Cyprus.

He has also been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Texas (Austin), and the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

He is the author of The Plays of Zakes Mda, American Studies in Africa, and Theatre in Community Development, as well as more than 50 book chapters, encyclopædia essays and peer-reviewed journal articles.

He has been a consultant in broadcast journalism and production for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung (Berlin, Germany), and has contributed current affairs and arts programming to the BBC World Service, in London.