Endalkachew Hailu Guluma (PhD, Assistant Professor)

Endalkachew Hailu Guluma, PhD is Assistant Professor of English Literature in the Department of English Language and Literature, Arba Minch University, and a former AfOx Torch fellow at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (2021-2022). He completed high school at Bethel Evangelical Secondary School, Dembi Dollo, in June 2000. H joined Debub/Hawasa University and graduated with a BA in Foreign Language and Literature in July 2005. He was employed by Arba Minch University in July 2005, completed his MA in English Literature at Addis Ababa University in 2008, and wrote his thesis on “The Predicament of the Diaspora as Reflected in the Texture of Dreams and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears." He completed his PhD in English Literature at Addis Ababa University in June 2017 on "A Deconstructive Reading of Ideology in Selected Post-1991 Amharic and Afan Oromo Novels." Besides teaching literature courses at BA and MA levels and advising students with their theses, he has been serving as a research coordinator of the College of Social Science and Humanities from 2018 to present. He has been involved in numerous research projects in the areas of literary studies, ethiopian literature and folklore, oral literature, indigenous knowledge, environmental humanities, Ethiopian modernity, Amharic and Afan Oromo literature, culture documentation, and gender studies.