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 English 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.