Tracie Chima Utoh, also known as Tracie Utoh-Ezeajugh, is a

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and Professor of Film and Theatre Design at

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. In 2015 she was an ACLS/ASA Presidential Fellow, a scheme which invites "outstanding Africa-based scholars" to attend the

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annual conference and spend a week in an

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institution before the conference. Her academic speciality is the study of the use of

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and body art, "both as art and as aids to characterisation on stage and in films". N.E. Izuu, writing in ''Creative Artist: A Journal of Theatre and Media Studies'' said that Utoh "exhibits a profound proclivity towards the reiteration of

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agitation (rather than

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) which aims at rechannelling literary emphasis to more debilitating phenomena in contemporary society other than the re-inscription of gendered disputations".

Selected publications

Plays

*''Who owns this coffin? : and other plays'' (1999, Jos, Nigeria : Sweetop Publications) *''Our wives have gone mad again! and other plays'' (2001, Awka, Anambra State igeria: Valid Pub. Co. (Nig.) Ltd; ) *''Nneora : an African doll's house'' (2005, Awka : Valid Publishing Co; )

Other writings

*''The humanities and globalisation in the 3rd millennium'' edited by A B C Chiegboka, Tracie Chima Utoh, and G I Ukechukwu (2010, Nimo, Nigeria : Rex Charles & Patrick; )

References

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