Title/Qualifications: Doctor of Philosophy Kenyatta University,Master of Arts, University of Nairobi Department/Unit/Section: Department of Literature Contact Address: P. O. Box 21274 00100 Nairobi Email:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it./This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Cell-phone :0721 385 698 Position: Lecturer Area of Specialization: Literary Criticism Research Interests: African Literature Literary Theory Download Full CV

Research

• Wring a PhD thesis on “Tragedy in the Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong’o” at Kenyatta University, currently at an advanced stage.(Ongoing)
• Oscar M. Maina, 2005, The Influence of Modernization on Moranism: A Case study of Samburu Oral Narratives
• Oscar M. Maina, 2006, The Quest for Identity in the Works of Muthoni Likimani

Publications

• Oscar M. Maina, 2010, Exploring the Motifs of Death and Immortality, USIU Journal of Language, Technology, and Entrepreneurship., Available at AJOL
• Oscar M. Maina, 2010, Writing Freedom: The Art of Contesting Incarceration, USIU Journal of Language, Technology, and Entrepreneurship., Available at AJOL

• Oscar M. Maina, 2009, Postmodernism in Ngugi’s Wizard of the Crow, USIU Journal of Language, Technology, and Entrepreneurship., ISSN 1998-1279.Available at AJOL

Thesis and Dissertations

• PhD thesis on “Tragedy in the Novels of Ngugi wa Thiong’o” at Kenyatta University
• The State of Moranism in the Oral Narratives of the Samburu.Fieldwork research conducted in Maralal
• The Treatment of the Theme of Identity in the Works of Muthoni Likimani.Research thesis submitted at the University of Nairobi as part of the requirements for the award of a Master of Arts degree in Literature.

 Other information

• Awarded Dr. Marjorie Oludhe Prize for the best postgraduate student in the Department of Literature, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Nairobi in the academic year 2006/2007.
• Awarded the Yusuf Dawood Award for the best final year undergraduate student in Literature, Department of Literature, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Nairobi in the academic year 2001/2002.