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MR. ROBERT ROTICH

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Designation: ASSISTANT LECTURER
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Job Category: Teaching
Phone Number: +254722305890
Division / Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Directorate / Dept: DEPT. OF LANGUAGES,LIT AND LINGUISTICS
Section: Njoro Campus
Office Extension No.: FASS Block B
Address: P.O. Box 536-20115, Egerton

SUMMARY

: Mr. Robert Rotich teaches Literature at the Department of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics. He holds a Bachelor of Education (Arts) degree from Maseno University, and an MA in Literature from Egerton University. He is pursuing PhD in Literature at Egerton University. His thesis, provisionally titled, "The Voicing of Ethical Uncertainties by the Self in Post-Apartheid Literature", interrogates the intersections between point of view and Ethics as represented in selected fictional works. Mr. Rotich is also interested in studies on intersections between narrative and trauma in fiction, in film, and in new media technologies.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

PhD (Literature): Currently pursuing PhD in Literature at Egerton University (Expected Year of Graduation, 2024).

M.A. (Literature): Egerton University, 2015.

B.ED. (Arts): Maseno University, 2006, First Class Honors.

FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION

: Narrative and Ethics in South African Writing; Style and Narrative Conventions in African Literature; Trauma in African Fiction and Film

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

2023/2024: CBC Compliance Trainings held at Egerton University (Facilitated by the Faculty of Education and Community Studies)

2019: Pedagogical Leadership in Africa (PeDaL) Trainings on Curriculum Design and Implementation (Offered by PASGR)

2006: Certificate in Information Technology (International Computer Driving Licence, ICDL), Maseno University.

WORK EXPERIENCE

March 2018- Date – Assistant Lecturer in Literature, at the Department of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Egerton University.

Courses: Introduction to Literary Criticism, Literary Stylistics, Theatre Arts, Kenyan and East African Literature, Southern African Literature, North African Literature, and African Diasporic Literature.

August 2014 – February, 2018 – Teaching Assistant, Literature, Department of Literature, languages and Linguistics, Egerton University.

September 2008 – July 2014 – Graduate Teacher, Moi-Secondary School, Amalo. (2012- 2014, Director of Studies)

KEY PROJECTS

PhD Thesis: (In Progress) “The Voicing of Ethical Uncertainties by the Self in Post-Apartheid South African Literature” Egerton University.

Rotich, R, E. Ilieva & J. Walunywa (Forthcoming publication) “ ‘Let it all Go to the Dogs’: Fractious Post-Apartheid Future in Zakes Mda’s The Madonna of Excelsior and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace.”

Rotich, R. (In Progress) “Conserving the Phallus?: The Materiality of the Male Body in the Conservation of Tulwap Kipsigis, the Londiani Kipsigis Sacred Hill” Paper in Progress

Rotich, R. (In Progress) “Ethical Implications of the Practice of Ke-wekta Mureret (To Return the Eloped Bride) among the Kipsigis Community of Kenya.” Paper in Progress

Rotich, R. (Creative Writing, In Progress) “My Grandfather’s Old Coin.” Story for Collection, Khole and Other Stories.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

: Southern African Writing; Narrative, trauma, Ethics and History in African writing; Literature and intersections with Film and New Media, Theatre and Aesthetics, and Kalenjin Oral Literature.

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Rotich, R. (2023) Ethics and Female Corporeality in Harriet Anena’s Collection of Poetry, A Nation in Labour.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. Vol. 4, No. 3. 43-58.

Rotich, R. (2022) “‘For Whom there is Hope’: Imagining Freedom in Selected Post-Apartheid South African Fiction.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies. Vol.3, No.3. 49-68.

Rotich, R., Ilieva, V., Kweya, D., and Ogude, J. (2022) “Collapsing Seams: The Search for Truth as an Ethical Obligation in the Montage of Voices in Country of My Skull and The Cry of Winnie Mandela.” Egerton University 4^th International Conference.

Rotich, R. (2022) “Review: Barry Hallen.2021. Reading Wiredu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 125 pp.” African Studies Quarterly. Vol. 21, No. 2. 84-86. https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/files/br_v21.i2.pdf

Rotich, R, E. Ilieva & J. Walunywa (2019) “Broken Temporalities of the ‘New’ South Africa: Variegated Rainbow Nation in K. Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams and Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to Our Hillbrow.” Egerton Journal of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education. Vol. 12, No. 1. 1-23.

Rotich, R. (2016) “Review: Judith Lütge Coullie and Andries Visagie, eds. 2014. Antjie Krog: An Ethics of Body and Otherness. South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. 341 pp.”African Studies Quarterly. Vol. 16, Issue 3-4. December. 186-188.

Rotich, R, E. Ilieva & J. Walunywa (2015) “Social Formation of Post-apartheid South Africa” Journal of Pan African Studies, Vol. 8, No. 9. December. 132-155.

CONFERENCES & INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Rotich, R. (2018) “‘For Whom There is Hope’: Intimations of Freedom in Four Novels of the New South Africa.” Paper Presented at the 2^nd International Conference on Ethical Sustainable Development for the Betterment of Humanity, University of Kabianga, Kericho, Kenya, May 9-10.

Rotich, R. (2018) “Politics and the Ethics of the Female Body: Interrogating the Representation of Female Corporeality in Harriet Anena’s Collection of Poetry A Nation in Labour.” Paper Presented at the 2^nd International Conference on Ethical Sustainable Development for the Betterment of Humanity, University of Kabianga, Kericho, Kenya, May 9-10.

HONORS, PRIZE AND AWARDS

2024: Appointed as Website Representative for the Department of Literature, languages and Linguistics

2024: Participated in a workshop on CBC and Pedagogical Approaches (Organised by by the Faculty of education and Community Studies, January 2024)

2023: Certificate on Training on Competency Based Curriculum, on Constructive Alignment of the curriculum and Designing of Competency Based Curriculum (Faculty of Education and Community Studies, Egerton University, 9^th to 11^th August 2023).

2019: Certificate awarded on completion of Pedagogical Leadership in Africa (PeDaL), on Curriculum Design, Constructive Alignment, Technology Enhanced learning, and constructing a Teaching Philosophy (PASGR Training, Sarova Woodlands, Nakuru, 11^th – 19^th September, 2019).

2018: Appointed as Examination Officer, Literature

2018: Presented two papers at the 2^nd Annual International Conference of University of Kabianga, on the theme, Ethical Sustainable Development for the Betterment of Humanity (Held at Sunshine Hotel, kericho, 9^th and 10^th May, 2018).

2017, 2018: Organised skit performances for the 11^th and the 12^th Egerton University International Conference (Delegated responsibility by the Division of Research and Extension, Egerton University)

2015: Seminar on Ethics, Integrity, and Corruption Prevention (Organised by Egerton University, offered at FASS Theatre 2, 28^th May)

2015: Worked as an election official for the Students Union of Egerton University (SUEU) as a presiding officer.

2015: Appointed as Academic Advisor for Second Year students, Literature Group

2014: Trained as an ISO Liaison person for the Department of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, Egerton University

2013: Workshop for High School Career masters (Held at Education Theatre II, on 24^th May 2013)

2012: Outstanding performance as class teacher, and as subject teacher (English), Moi Secondary School, Amalo.

2012: Appointed as Academic Dean, Moi Secondary School, Amalo

2011: Certificate of Achievement for excellent academic performance in Master’s in Literature, and being in the Dean’s List of Honour in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in the Academic Year 2010/2011

2007-2011: Certificates of outstanding achievements as class teacher; Workshops on Language Teaching.

TEACHING AREAS

: Undergraduate: Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, East African Literature, Elements of Style, Southern African Literature, North African Literature, African Diasporic Writing

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