Professor and Chair
Garinger 113 A
704-687-2355

Tanure Ojaide, Ph.D.
Professor
Garinger 138
704-687-2665

Dr. Ojaide is a leading poet, and he has also written critical essays and novels. He has won major national and international poetry awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Africa Region (1987), the BBC Arts and Africa Poetry Award (1988), the All-Africa Okigbo Prize for Poetry (1988 and 1997), and also the Association of Nigerian Authors’ Poetry Prize (1988 and 1994). 

Thomas D. Rogers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Garinger 137
704 687-4777

Debra C. Smith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Garinger 129
704-687-2366

Dorothy Smith-Ruiz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Garinger 130
704-687-2367

***Dr. Ruiz is on leave until June 1, 2010**