Dr. Joseph Nnadi
Title: Professor Emeritus of French Studies
Email: j.nnadi@uwinnipeg.ca
Biography:
Joseph Nnadi obtained the Diplôme d’Études françaises (Poitiers, France) 1965, the Diplôme supérieur d’Études françaises (Dakar, Sénégal) 1965, B. A. Hons. French, 2nd-Class Upper (Ibadan, Nigeria) 1966, M.A, French Literature, (Alberta, Canada) 1973, Ph. D. French Literature (Alberta, Canada) 1978, and the M. Ed, Adult Education and Peace Education (Alberta, Canada) 1991.
Before his appointment at the University of Winnipeg in 1990, he had held teaching and administrative positions in Higher Institutions in Nigeria and Canada, including Junior Fellow, Department of Languages, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1970-71, Associate Dean of Arts, University of Calabar (1981-82), Head, Department of French and Dean of Arts, College of Education, Eha-Amufu, 1982-88, and Visiting Professor, Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Alberta, 1988-90.
At the University of Winnipeg, he introduced some new courses to the academic program of the French section, including :
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- Introduction to Francophone Literature,
- 19th-Century French Novel,
- Post-Independence Black African Literature,
- 19th-Century French Poetry and Drama, and
- Black Francophone Feminist Literature.
Awards and honours:
In the course of his studies and academic career, he was named:
- « University Scholar » – the University of Ibadan, 1963-66;
- “Province of Alberta Graduate Scholar”—the University of Alberta, 1972-73;
- “Federal Scholar” --at the University of Alberta (offered by the Nigerian Government), 1973-76.
- "Senior Scholar” -- the University of Winnipeg since 2012.
Research Interests:
Relativity of Feminism in African, French and North American Literatures; 19th-Century French Literature; Francophone Afro-Caribbean Literatures; Feminism and Womanism in African and Caribbean Literatures; Religion and the Black African diaspora.
Publications:
Selected Publications
« C’est au tour des missionnaires africains » (Interview et reportage de Marie Berckvens), La Liberté, Vol. 105 No.41 (6 au 12 février, 2019), p. 14.
« La mondialisation et les populations nouvelles dans l’Archidiocèse de Saint-Boniface, » dans, Archidiocèse de Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada, 1818 - 2018, L’Église dans l’Ouest canadien : Livre souvenir du bicentenaire, Strasbourg, France, Éditions du Signe (2018), p. 93-96.
« Globalization and the Church of Saint-Boniface” in Archdiocese of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, Canada, The Church in Western Canada: Souvenir Book for the Bicentennial Year, Strasbourg, France, Éditions du Signe (2018), p. 93-96.
From Convert to Missionary: A tribute to African Missionaries in Canada. Belleville, Ontario: Guardian Books (2016), 110p.
Les pionniers noirs de Saint-Boniface, Manitoba: 1908-2008 / Black Pioneers of Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, 1908 – 2008. Saint-Boniface: Rinella Press (2008), 60p.
« Black African Layman notes changes in Archdiocese” in Supplement to The Prairie Messenger, Vol. 87, No. 12 (September 2009), p. 18-19.
« Itinéraire de l’espoir : Les Noirs de Saint-Boniface » dans André Fauchon et Carol Harvey, éd, Saint-Boniface 1908-2008, reflets d’une ville. Saint-Boniface : Presses universitaire de Saint-Boniface (2008), p. 39-46.
« Les Deux Nègres de Gabrielle Roy : une vision apocalyptique de l’avenir » dans André Fauchon et Carol Harvey, éd, L’Ouest : Directions, Dimensions et Destinations.. Saint-Boniface : Presses universitaires de Saint-Boniface (2005), p. 531-549.
« Parnassiennes avant-gardistes du féminisme modernes », Romance Quarterly, Vol. 46, no. 3 (1999), p.177-189.
« De grand-mère en petite-fille ou la relativité du féminisme chez Gabrielle Roy et Mariama Bâ, » dans Colloque Gabrielle Roy, André Fauchon, éd., Saint-Boniface : Presses universitaires de Saint-Boniface (1996), p. 653-666.
Les Négresses de Baudelaire. Saint-Boniface : Les Éditions des Plaines (1994), 128p.