Paul Ugor is a Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of Modern African Literatures and Cultures, Anglophone Postcolonial World Literatures, Cultural Studies, Global Black Studies, and New Media Cultures in the Global South. He is the author of Nollywood: Popular Culture and Narratives of Youth Struggles in Nigeria (2016) and co-editor of several collections including, Youth and Popular Culture in Africa: Media, Music, and Politics (2021); African Youth Cultures in the Age of Globalization: Challenges, Agency, and Resistance (2017); Special Issue of Critical African Studies on ‘African Youth, Popular Culture, and the Ethnographic Sense’ (2023); Postcolonial Text, Vol. 8, No. 3 & 4, 2013; and a special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies 31:4 (2009). He is currently working on three edited volumes, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman: Youth, Representational Politics and Aesthetic Reinventions (co-edited with Dr Arnab Roy of Florida Gulf Coast University, currently under contract with the University of Alberta Press); The Postcolonial Bildungsroman and the Character of Place, co-edited with Arnab Dutta Roy, Paul Ugor & Maria Puleo, Simone, and under review with the University of Nebraska Press; and Narrating Transitional Justice: Memory in the Age of Truth and Reconciliation (co-edited with Bonny Ibhawoh of McMaster University, and under review with McGill-Queens University Press, and a monograph tentatively entitled Afropolitan Humanism: Popular Cinema and Humanist Advocacy in Nigeria. The latter project examines the humanitarian uses to which Femi Odugbemi, Nollywood’s leading film director and television producer, has put his screen media work as a socially committed filmmaker. He has also authored more than three dozen journal articles/book chapters published in reputable African Studies’ journals and edited books. Prof. Ugor is an Alumnus of the National Humanities Centre in North Carolina, US.