Bio
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).
Research Interests
Dr. Uwakweh's research centers on migration, mobility, transnationalism, and women writers of the African Diaspora as well as women in war and conflicts, cultural mediation in children's and young adult literature of the African Diaspora
Recent Publications
- Pauline Uwakweh (2022). (Women Writers of the New African Diaspora: Transnational Negotiations and Female Agency. Routledge, 2023.). pp. 242. Routledge.
- Uwakweh, Pauline Ada. Ed. African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict. Lexington Books, 2017.
· Uwakweh, Pauline Ada. “Introduction: Exploring African Women and the War Experience A Critical Update.” African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict. Ed. Pauline Ada Uwakweh. Lexington Books, 2017. 3-21.
Uwakweh, Pauline Ada. “Memoir versus Fiction: Narrating Trauma in Girl Soldier: A Story of Hope for Northern Uganda's Children and Thirty Girls”. African Women Under Fire: Literary Discourses in War and Conflict. Ed. Pauline Ada Uwakweh. Lexington Books, 2017. 113-129.
· Uwakweh, Pauline Ada, Rotich, Jerono, Okpala, Comfort. Eds. Engaging the Diaspora Migration and African Families. Lexington Books, 2014
· Uwakweh, Pauline Ada. "Negotiating Marriage and Motherhood: A Critical Perspective on the Immigration Narratives of Buchi Emecheta and Chimamanda Adichie." Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families. Eds. Pauline Ada Uwakweh, Jerono Rotich, and Comfort Okpala. Lexington Books, 2014. 15-37
· Uwakweh, Pauline Ada. "Introduction: (Re) Configuring African Migration since the Last Forty Years - Issues, Concepts and Contexts." Engaging the Diaspora: Migration and African Families. Eds. Pauline Ada Uwakweh, Jerono Rotich, and Comfort Okpala. Lexington Books, 2014. 1-14.
.· Uwakweh, Pauline Ada. "Reconstructing Masculinity and Femininity in African War Narratives: The Youth in Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Gorretti Kyomuhendo's Waiting: A Novel of Uganda at War.” Journal of African Literature Association (JALA) 7.1 (Summer/Fall), 2012. 82-106.
· ---. "Breaking Gods. The Narrator as Revelator and Critic of the Postcolonial Condition in Purple Hibiscus." Emerging African Voices: A Study of Contemporary African Literature (2010): 53-74.
