Biography

Oluwafunke Brinda Ogunya is the Yoruba Language and Culture Lecturer at the Department of World Languages and Culture, Howard University, and the Director of 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 interest includes Yoruba Language Pedagogy, Black women’s fiction, African/Africana folklore, Girlhood, and Motherhood. She received her M.A. in African Literature from the University of Ibadan and a B. Ain English Studies from Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, as Foreign Language Teaching Assistant, where she taught the Yoruba Language in the 2015/2016 academic year.