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Gorrety Nafula Wawire

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Contact Information

Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801
Graduate Teaching Assistant
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Research Interests

Discourse Analysis; Ethnography; Language and Identity in the African Diaspora; Migration, Language, Race, and Gender; African Feminism; Black Feminism; Language Ideology

 

Education

B.A in Linguistics and Literature, Kenyatta University, 2013
M.A in TESL, University of Mississippi, Oxford,  2017
M.A in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020

Courses Taught

LING 250 - Linguistic Diversity in the US

SWAH 201 - Elementary Swahili I

SWAH 202 - Elementary Swahili II

SWAH 403 - Intermediate Swahili I

SWAH 404 - Intermediate Swahili II

 

Additional Campus Affiliations

Graduate Minor in Gender Relations in International Development; Women and Gender in Global Perspectives at Illinois