Dr Endalkachew Hailu Guluma

Dr Endalkachew Hailu Guluma smiling at camera
Researcher, An Ecocritical Revaluation of Traditional Environmental Thought and Ecological Knowledge of the Aari of Southern Ethiopia
Arba Minch University, Ethiopia

I completed high school in Bethel Evangelical Secondary School, Dembi Dollo, in June, 2000. I joined Debub/Hawasa/ University and graduated with a BA in Foreign/English/ Language and Literature in July 2005. I joined Arba Minch University in July 2005, Completed MA in English Literature from Addis Ababa University in 2008 and wrote my thesis on “The Predicament of the Diaspora as Reflected in the Texture of Dreams and The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears”.

I completed  my PhD in Addis Ababa University in June 2017 on  comparative study of Amharic and Afaan Oromo novels using post structuralist deconstruction. I have published two articles to date on Ethiopian journals and proceedings and I am trying to get articles  published on international journals from a currently completed study entitled “Folklore and Environmental Conservation among the Aari of Southern Ethiopia: An Ecocritical Study of Aari Traditional Religion, Myths and Rituals”.

I plan to publish two articles from this project (one focusing on "an ecocritical revaluation of Aari traditional environmental ontology"  another on "Aari Environmental ethics and customary law" and develop a grand project out of it. I am presently serving as research coordinator and journal language editor while teaching, advising students and researching.