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Biography
Pauline Ada Uwakweh (Ph.D.) is Professor of Literature and teaches postcolonial African literature, African American, and World literatures in the English Department at North Carolina A & T State University. She is author of Women Writers of the New African Diaspora: Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency (2023), editor of African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict (2017), co-editor of Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families (2014), and Running for Cover (Onwubiko,1988/2010). She has published in professional journals such as Research in African Literatures, African Literature Today, Journal of African Literature Association, and in critical books on African literature, including Emerging African Voices, Emerging Perspectives on Buchi Emecheta, Nwanyibu: Womanbeing in African Literature, and Emerging Perspectives on Ama Ata Aidoo. She is a Fellow of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP).
Education/Academic qualification
Literature, Ph.D., Temple University
… → 1995
English & Literary Studies, M.A., N/A, University of Calabar
… → 1985
English Literature, B.A., N/A, University of Port-Harcourt
… → 1982
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Automobility and Ethical (In)justice: Reading Cars in Ama Ata Aidoo’s Changes: A Love Story
Uwakweh, P. A., Jan 1 2025, In: Mobility Humanities. 4, 1, p. 66-86 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Chair, Roundtable, “Migration and African Literature: Theories and Approaches to Research in the Field.” (ALA -Executive Committee Sponsored Roundtable),
Uwakweh, P., 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Unmaking agency: intersectionality and narrative silencing in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s This Mournable Body
Uwakweh, P. A., Jan 1 2023, In: Journal of the African Literature Association. 17, 2, p. 281-297 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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“Engendering Mobility Poetics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Migration Literature”
Uwakweh, P., 2023.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Chair, Roundtable - “Authors and Critics: Adversarial Conditions in Children and Young Adult Literature (ALA -Executive Committee sponsored Roundtable panel (forthcoming African Literature Association Conference, May 18-21, 2022 (Online)
Uwakweh, P., 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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