Michael Joseph Chukwudalu Echeruo (born March 14, 1937) is a Nigerian academic, professor and literary critic from Umunumo, Ehime-Mbano LGA, Imo State in the southeastern region of Nigeria.
He is the William Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the English Department at Syracuse University since 1990.
He is best known in poetry for his collection of poems, Mortality (1968);[4] in cultural history for his pioneering study of Victorian Lagos and in lexicography for his Dictionary of the Igbo Language (Yale 1998).
He is currently William Safire Professor of Modern Letters in the English Department of Syracuse University.
[5] He serves currently as a member of the Modern Language Association of America (MLA) Committee of the New variourum Shakespeare.