Philip U EffiongPhilip Effiong has been an Online Professor of English at the University of Maryland since October 2006. He holds a Ph.D. in dramatic literature from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and has taught English, writing, drama, literature and culturl studies at the University of Calabar in Nigeria, Regent University College of Science & Technology in Ghana, and, in the United States, the Universities of Wisconsin at Madison, Tennessee at Martin, Delaware at Newark and Lincoln in Pennsylvania. In addition to a text on African American drama and his novel, Monty, his articles on African and African American literature and culture appear in a number of periodicals, including Theater Studies, African American Review, the 1996 Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture, Encyclopedia of African Religion, the 2008 Encyclopedia of Africa and the Americas and West African Review. Philip is also a writing consultant and carries out writing projects for profit and nonprofit organizations. Read More Read Less