Pauline Uwakweh

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).