Ph.D. (English & Postcolonial Literature), Morgan State University

M.A. (English & British Romantic Literature), Morgan State University
M.A. (Religious Studies), Nations University
B.Ed. Honors (English & African Literature), Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

Areas of Specialization: African & African Diasporic Literature and culture, Postcolonial Literature, Children's and Young Adult Literature, Women’s & Gender Studies 

Book

Preventing Things from Falling Further Apart: The Preservation of Cultural Identities in Postcolonial African, Indian, and Caribbean Literatures. Adonis & Abbey, 2010.

Book Chapters
“No Longer at Peace: The Disruptions of Homosexuality in Tendai Huchu’s The Hairdresser of Harare,” Migraciones, Desplazamientos y Movimientos Africanos/Diaspóricos: Historias, políticas y poéticas (Migrations, Displacements and African Movements/Diaspora: Histories, Politics and Poetics) edited by Clement Akassi. University Press of the Universidad del Valle, Colombia. 2023, pp. 189-204.

 “Teaching Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross: The Cultural and Historical Overtones.” Post-Colonial Composition Pedagogy: Using the Culture of Marginalized Students to Teach Composition, edited by Monique Leslie-Akassi, Robbie Dean Press, 2011.

 “Reappropriation of the Colonial Language and Reconstruction of Postcolonial African Identity.” Postcolonial Discourses and Renegotiations of Black Identities, edited by Clement Akassi Animan & Victorien Lavou Zoungbo, Presses Universitaires de Perpignan (Perpignan University Press), 2010, pp. 185-200.

Journal Articles
“Reading Okot p’Bitek’s Song of Lawino in the Era of Postcolonial Technoscience.” Postcolonial Text, vol. 16, no. 4, Nov. 2021.

with Roselyne K. Mutura. “Unmasking unconscious Fear and Derangement in the Plays of Francis Imbuga.” Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies (JoALLS), vol. 1, no. 3, Dec. 2020, 87-102.

“Cultural Dichotomy versus Hybridity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus.” Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature, vol. 8, 2014, 34-41.

“Edgy Edgars: The Restless Youth in Suzanna E. Nelson’s Nightmare along the River Nile: A Story of Twentieth Century Slavery.” Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies (EALCS) Journal, vol.1, no. 1-2, Nov. 2014, 17-25.

with Mubina Hassanali Kirmani. “Seeking Ancestral Roots and Planting New Ones: Oral Literature of Diaspora Indians in East Africa.” Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature, vol. 9, 2010, 45-52.

“Looking Beyond the Horizon At all Times At All Places: The Triumphant African Woman in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter and Margaret Ogola’s The River and the Source.” The Zora Neale Hurston Forum, vol.18, 2004,
84-92.