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Alumna Harriet Masembe sends news from Uganda, solicits folktales

Posted on April 10, 2019

Harriet Masembe (Ph.D. in African Languages & Literature, 1982) sends us news from Uganda. “This year,” she writes, “I am compiling for publication a collection of Uganda folktales to include several that I collected from …

Posted in NewsTagged alumni, alumni news, folktales, uganda

Muezzin joins Notre Dame

Posted on September 12, 2018

ACS alum Ahmad Muezzin (MA, African Languages and Literature, 2016) has begun a new position at the University of Notre Dame. Muezzin is serving as a visiting assistant professional specialist of Arabic, teaching Arabic media …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged alumni news, arabic, muezzin

Sanuth publishes on Yoruba study abroad

Posted on February 22, 2018

Congratulations to MA alum Kazeem Sanuth, who recently published an article, “Navigating between a Monolingual Utopia and Translingual Realities: Experiences of American Learners of Yorùbá as an Additional Language” (co-authored with Junko Mori) in the …

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Congratulations to Dr. Carmen McCain

Posted on May 25, 2016

Carmen McCain (PhD 2014) has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the English Department at Westmont College, a small liberal arts college in Santa Barbara, CA. Congrats, Carmen!

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