Gabriel Abudu, English and Humanities, York College of Pennsylvania, 441 Country Club Road, York, PA 17403, USA, gabudu@ycp.edu, Phone: 717-815-1707
Gabriel Abudu is Associate Professor of Spanish at York College of Pennsylvania.
Dieudonne Afatsawo, Department of Modern Languages, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943, USA, dafatsawo@hsc.edu, Phone: 434-233-6336
Dieudonne Afatsawo is Associate Professor at Hampden-Sydney College. Areas of scholarly interests and publications include Peninsular Literature(s) and Culture(s), Exile Literature, Writers and Artists in Spain of African Descent, Spanish-African Relations, Spanish Youth Movements. His most recent article on the Spanish exile writer, Max Aub: “Sesión secreta o la crisis del modelo occidental de desarrollo económico para África,” was published in 2015 by Euclides, the journal of the Fundación Max Aub (Valencia, Spain). He is currently working on two works by Max Aub dealing with the Holocaust and the Vietnam War.
Yaw Agawu-Kakraba is Professor of Spanish at the Pennsylvania State University. He has published extensively in the field of Hispanic literature and cultures. His major book publications include Demythification in the Fiction of Miguel Delibes (1996), Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture (2012) and a co-edited book, Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts (2015). Several of his journal articles have also appeared in major journals such as Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Revista Hispánica Moderna, and Anales de la Literatura Contemporeanea. Aside from his primary focus on 20th - and 21st-century Spanish literature and culture, he also explores the works of writers from Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He is the President of the Ghanaian Association of Hispanists.
Comfort Awotwi Pratt, Department of Curriculum & Instruction, College of Education, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, USA, c.pratt@ttu.edu, Phone: (806)834-5710
Comfort Awotwi Pratt is Associate Professor at Texas Tech University, USA. Her areas of specialization include Spanish, French, linguistics, foreign language education, and sociolinguistics. Her research focuses on teaching strategies and student motivations. She teaches Spanish, language acquisition, pedagogy, and diversity courses. She directs a summer study program in Salamanca, Spain, where students study at Universidad Pontífica de Salamanca. She has received numerous awards including the Presidents' Excellence in Teaching Award, Teaching Academy Award for Meritorious Achievement in Teaching, and others. She is the author of In-class Communicative Projects (Pearson Prentice Hall) and El español del noroeste de Luisiana" Pervivencia d un dialecto amenazado (Editorial Verbum). Her articles have appeared in several journals such as Southern Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Humanities and Social Science, and Hispania.
Fred Agbemade, Department of Humanities Cultures, Paine College, Augusta, GA 30901, USA, fagbemade@paine.edu, Phone (706) 821-8216
Fred Agbemade is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at Paine College. His research interests include 20th-21st-Century Caribbean & Latin American literature and Afro-Caribbean literature and culture.
Johnson Asunka, Department of Modern Languages, University of Ghana, Legon, jasunka@ug.edu.gh, Phone: (024) 475-6799
Johnson Asunka is a Lecturer at the University of Ghana. His scholarly interests include Translation and Comparative Linguistics
Joanna Boampong, Department of Modern Languages, University of Ghana, Legon, jboampong@ug.edu.gh, Phone: (024) 368-7902
Joanna Boampong is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Ghana. Her scholarly interests include Transatlantic Spanish Literatures and Cultures.
Jeffrey K. Coleman, Department of Spanish & Portuguese Northwestern University, USA, jeffrey.coleman@northwestern.edu, Phone: 847-491-8281
Jeffrey K. Coleman is Associate Professor of Spanish at Northwestern University. He specializes in 20th Century and Contemporary Peninsular Spanish Literature. He earned his Ph.D in 2004 from the University of Chicago with a dissertation on the portrayals of the immigration question in contemporary Peninsular Spanish theatre. He is also interested in contemporary Catalan literature. His latest research project is a monograph on the theatrical trajectory of immigration in Spain from 1992-present.
Arthur Hughes, Department of Modern Languages, Ohio University Athens, OH 45701, USA, hughes@ohio.edu, Phone: 740-593-2773
Arthur Hughes is Associate Professor of Spanish at Ohio University. His fields of specialty include Contemporary Spanish Literature, Latin American (Afro-Hispanic) Literature, Literary Theory (Cultural, Gay and Lesbian, Film Studies).
Lillie Vivian Essah, School of International Letters and Cultures,
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA, lessah@asu.edu,
Phone: 520-368-2605
Lillie Essah is a PhD student at Arizona State University. Her research interests include Spanish sociolinguistics,
specifically Spanish spoken in Equatorial Guinea and among
Mexican Americans in Phoenix.
Samuel Mate-Kodjo, Department of Modern Languages, Central College, 812 University, Pella, Iowa, 50219, USA,
matekodjos@central.edu, Phone: 614-628-5128
Samuel Mate-Kodjo is Associate Professor of Spanish at Central College in the United States. His scholarly interests include Literature of Spain, Black Writing in Latin America. He is the Vice-President of the Ghanaian Association of Hispanists.
Novieto Setor Donné, School of Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ, setordon@hotmail.com
Novieto Setor Donné is a PhD candidate in the School of Languages and Cultures at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His PhD project is Context Change and Continuity: Pointers from Guillén and Armah.
Dorothy Odartey-Wellington, School of Languages and Literatures, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada, dodartey@uoguelph.ca, 519-824-4120 Ext. 53179
John Teye, Department of English and Foreign Languages, Delaware State University, 1200 N. DuPont Hwy, Dover, DE 19901, jteye@desu.edu, Phone: 302-857-7897
John Teye is Associate Professor of Spanish at Delaware University in the United States. His research interests include the impact of culture on the learning of foreign languages, English as a Second Language, Sociolinguistics, and Multicultural Education.