Chiedozie Michael Uhuegbu taught German language for over 6 years at the University of Benin, Nigeria before joining the German, Russian and East European Studies department at Vanderbilt University for his Ph.D. in the fall of 2016. He earned his B.A. in French and German (2010) followed by an M.A in German literature from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (2015). Chiedozie is also earning a Graduate Certificate in Second Language Studies. He recently earned a Certificate in College Teaching from the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. He is a graduate fellow at the Center for Second Language Studies (CSLS) at Vanderbilt University. In the summer of 2018, he was awarded an Africa at a Crossroads grant for his Dissertation research at the University of Hamburg, Germany. In the following summer of 2019, he won the Gisela Mosig Summer Travel Award Grant for dissertation research at the University of Freiburg. His research interest includes the genre of autobiography, the depiction of culture, and hybridity in African-German Migration literature. He is writing his dissertation: “Borders, Belonging and Otherness in African-German Literature”.