Dr. Gomia is a professor of World Literature at the Department of Languages and Literatures, Delaware State University. His current research interests include popular literature as utilitarian literature in post-colonial settings as well as globalization and literature. The latter inspired a project that resulted in Re-Writing Pasts, Imagining Futures: Critical Explorations of Contemporary African Fiction and Theater, a volume he co-edited with Gilbert Shang of Bayreuth University.