Ainehi Edoro
Mellon-Morgridge Assistant Professor of English and African cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and founding editor of Brittle Paper; author of Forest Imaginaries, which examines how forests function as thinking, agentive spaces in African fiction.
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Mar 30, 2026 • 1h 2min
Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Ainehi Edoro, Mellon-Morgridge Assistant Professor and founding editor of Brittle Paper, explores how African novels make forests into thinking, agentive worlds. She discusses forests as sites of worldbuilding, fragmentation as a creative method, rethinking literary history through indigenous forms, and speculative aquatic forests that imagine multispecies futures.
Mar 29, 2026 • 1h 2min
Ainehi Edoro, "Forest Imaginaries: How African Novels Think" (Columbia UP, 2026)
Ainehi Edoro, Mellon-Morgridge assistant professor and founding editor of Brittle Paper, discusses how forests in African fiction act as living, agentive spaces. She explores forests as sites of worldbuilding, fragmentation as a creative strategy, and how forest-thinking rewrites literary history to imagine new political and ecological futures.
