I earned a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2021. My dissertation research explores ideas of postcolonial sovereignty in the literature and reportage of the Nigeria-Biafra War, focusing on writers such as Buchi Emecheta, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Ken Saro-Wiwa, and Nnedi Okorafor. A central concern throughout the project is to demonstrate the ways in which postwar novelists pick up and transform literary tropes first articulated in wartime news coverage. The project is grounded in archival research at the Nigerian National Archives at Ibadan and Enugu, the University of Nigeria-Nsukka, and the School of Oriental and African Studies. My broader research interests include 20th century African literature, postcolonial and feminist theory, law, war, and humanitarianism. In 2019, I was awarded a certificate in feminist scholarship from the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality.