Faith Adiele
Assistant Professor of English
412-624-5553
adiele@pitt.edu
CL 609-G
Faith Adiele received a BA in Southeast Asian Studies from Harvard & Radcliffe Colleges, an MA in Creative Writing from Lesley College, and MFAs from the University of Iowa in both Fiction (2001) and Nonfiction (2002).
Research and Publications: Her current projects include Twins: Growing Up Nigerian/Nordic/American, a work of memoir and cultural history, and Coming of Age Around the World, an international anthology for The New Press.
She is author of Meeting Faith: The Forest Journals of a Black Buddhist Nun (W.W. Norton), "My Journey Home," a documentary based on her writings and travels (PBS), and two children's books (on Nigeria and Kenya) from Harcourt Brace Readers.
She is also the co-author of a novel, The Student Body (written under the penname Jane Harvard and published by Random House). She has published essays in journals and magazines, including Ploughshares, Creative Non-Fiction, Transition, Essence, Ms., and Tricycle; and her work has been anthologized in such books as A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe (Seal Press), Men We Cherish: African American Women Writing about Men (Doubleday), and Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity (Routledge).
Honors and Awards: Her honors include the PEN Beyond Margins Award for Best Biography/Memoir of 2004, a UNESCO International Artists Bursary (2003), nomination for Best American Essays 2002, the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize from Crab Orchard Review (2001), the Millennium Award from Creative Non-Fiction (2000), second prize from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation (2000), the Willard R. Espy Literary Foundation Award (1999), the Dorothy & Granville Hicks Residence in Literature from the Yaddo Corporation (1998), and Pen New England Emerging Writer (1994).
She is on the graduate faculty at National University in Log Angelese, and has taught at the Chautauqua Writers Festival, the Geneva Writers Conference, Framingham State College, where she held the Christa McAuliffe Chair as a visitor, and non-fiction writing at the University of Iowa.
She has also been active in community and campus organizations in support of minority and international students, including serving as the Coordinator of Special Programs at Radcliffe College, a program to enhance the co-curricular education of women and students of color.
Other Duties & Service
- Graduate Admissions Committee
- Writing Curriculum Committee
