Short bioYou wouldn't believe it but I started off as a Literatures major. I love reading novels. Amongst my favorite classics are predictably Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, D.H Lawrence, Tolstoi, Zola, Balzac, Stendhal... Plus other unmentionable authors ;-).
After my Masters' degree studying Stendhal's 'La Chartreuse de Parme', I decided a career change was overdue. So I switched over to Information and Communication Studies in which I obtained an M.Phil (french DEA) in Library & Information science and Automatic documentation, and subsequently a Ph.D. After several years as Associate Professor of Information & Communication Sciences, I went on to defend my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches, the highest university degree and in the french higher education system, it enables you to officially direct doctoral students and become a Full Professor. I am fully fluent in English & French. I'm learning to play the cello, classical music theory & Italian. Hope to stun you one of these days with my performances ;-) |
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Functions in learned societies
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Positions
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Since 2014 Full Professor, School of Journalism & Communication, Aix-Marseille University, France. |
2001 -14 Associate Professor in Information Science, University of Lyon 3, France. |
2007-09 Visiting Research Scholar, College of Information Science & Technology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. |
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1996-98 ATER (Adjunct Professor), Institute of Technology, University of Le Havre, France. |
1998- 01 Associate Professor in Information Science, University of Nancy 2, France. |
Degrees
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1997 Ph.D. in Information Science, University of Stenhdal, Grenoble France. |
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1989 M.A. in French Literature, University of Stendhal, Grenoble France. |
1988 B.A. in Foreign Languages & Literatures, University of Port-Harcourt, Nigeria. |
