Biography

Oluwafunke Brinda Ogunya is the Yoruba Language and Culture Lecturer in the Department of World Languages and Culture at Howard University, and the Director of the Fulbright-Hays Intensive Advanced Yoruba Group Project Abroad. She is currently a doctoral candidate specializing in African American Literature and Cultural Studies in the Department of Literature and Writing at Florida State University. Her research interests include Yoruba Language Pedagogy, Black women’s fiction, African/Africana folklore, Girlhood, and Motherhood. She earned her M.A. in African Literature from the University of Ibadan and her B.A. in English Studies from Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where she served as a Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, and taught the Yoruba Language in the 2015/2016 academic year. She is currently the Vice President of the South East African Languages and Literature Forum (SEALLF).