Daniel A. Nkemleke
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Address:Reichenhainer Str. 39/201
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Affiliation:Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), University of Yaoundé I (UYI)
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Academic rang:Full Professor in English Language & Linguistics, since May, 2015
Biodata of Professor Daniel A. Nkemleke
Daniel A. Nkemleke is professor in English language & linguistics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), University of Yaoundé I. He has been guest scholar of Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in the Department of English, Chemnitz University of Technology (2006-2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2023) and William J. Fulbright African senior scholar in the University of Massachusetts at Boston (2009-2010). He was the Award Winner of the prestigious Humboldt Alumni Prize for Innovative Research Initiative in 2014, and currently runs an academic mentorship network involving scholars and junior scientists in Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania and Germany (Academic Writing Network for Africa). He coordinated the African component of Our Mythical Childhood (OMC) project&smash;a European Union funded research (2016-2022) which investigated the reception of classical antiquity in children’s and young adult’s literature/culture in response to regional challenges ("Our Mythical Childhood"). He and his African team researched and wrote 300 of the 1500 entries now available as open access database of several genres of children’s/young adults’ literature from Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and North America ("Our Mythical Childhood Survey"). The Proof-of-Concept phase of this project has been awarded and it is scheduled to begin in autumn of this year, 2023. The project is a consortium of five universities across the world with the Principal Investigator based in the University of Warsaw, Poland. His major research interest is corpus-based linguistics: compiling language databases, analyzing and comparing them with other databases (of native + non-native Englishes) for teaching academic writing at tertiary level. His publications in international peer-reviewed journals cut across linguistics, academic writing, English language teaching, and African culture and literature. Professor Nkemleke is Chair of the Department of English at ENS, University of Yaoundé 1.
Highlights
- has over 40 publications in refereed journals, book chapters etc.
- is a Humboldt Alumni Prize Award Winner for Innovative Research Initiative in 2014
- is a Georg Forster Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (first sponsorship 2006-2008, subsequent re-invitation and research stay: 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2023)
- is a J. William Fulbright scholar, University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA (2010-2011)
- coordinates a network of scholars and junior scientists in 5 African countries (Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania) with Germany which aims to mentor junior scientists in the Humanities in project writing and publication
- is a member of the Faculties of Arts/Humanities Scholars Association of Nigerian Universities (FAHSANU), with Head Quarter at the University of Calabar, Nigeria
- is director of the corpus linguistic project for Cameroon since 2000
- is member of Quality Assurance Commission for ENS of the University of Yaoundé I, since 2013
- is Editor-in-Chief of a peer-reviewed journal: Review Syllabus of ENS Yaoundé since 2009
- is a member of the Scientific Committee responsible for promotion of university staff
- has given academic lectures in Cameroonian, Nigerian, European and North American universities
- has 28 years of experience in ELT and related research, 21 of them at university level
Career history
Education
Promotion profile in the university
International Grants/Awards
Publications (last five years)
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Network/Projects
- Co-ordinates the activities of AfriG-CAWE (African/German Network for Academic Writing Excellence: advising junior scientists in the Humanities on project writing and publication, in view of preparing them for Humboldt scholarship. Network members are in six countries: Germany, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania.
- Coordinates the African research component of the ERC (European Research Council) Grant Consolidator Project, with the PI (Principal Investigator) in the University of Warsaw, Poland. This project aims to build an on-line database of the reception of Classical Antiquity in the literature for Children and Young Adults, as part of a world-Wide bank of Antiquities including African Mythology and Folk-Tales.
- Has compiled the Corpus of Cameroon Written English (800,000 words): a first generation corpus for Cameroon. The database is being used for research, language teaching and textbook writing in Cameroon
- Has compiled ICE (International Corpus of English)-CAM (Cameroon): a second generation corpus for Cameroon English (400,000 words)
- Has compiled other specialised academic corpora on which my book is based on (1,000,000 words). This database is the material for the book: Exploring Academic Writing in Cameroon English (Nkemleke, 2011). The Humboldt Foundation funded the project.
- Has compiled a corpus of spoken academic texts (40,000 words) with funding from Fulbright Foundation in the US. The work was done in the University of Massachusetts at Boston (2010)