Bloomsburg University Department of English: Vivian Yenika-Agbaw




Dr. Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Professor of English Education Ph D. English Education, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania M.A. English Education, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut B.A. English, University of Yaounde, Cameroon Contact Information Office: 109B Bakeless Center for the Humanities Phone: (570) 389-4976 Fax: (570) 389-3006 E-mail: vyenika at bloomu.edu

Teaching and Research Interests Writing for Publication, Adolescent Literacy, Secondary English Language Arts/Literacy Issues, Writing for Children/Young Adults, and Literature for Children/Young Adults. Contemporary Children’s Literature/Young Adult Literature and Literacy Critical Literacy/Pedagogy Africana Children’s Literature [1960-present] Africana Retellings of fairy tales Postcolonial Theory Cultural Studies Feminism vis a vis Womanism Selected Publications and Presentations: Representing Africa in Children’s Literature: Old and New Ways of Seeing. New York: Routledge. 2007. “Taking Children’s Literature Seriously: Reading for Pleasure and Social Change.” In Peter Hunt (Ed.) Children’s Literature: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. Volume 2. London: Routledge. 2006. “Capitalism and Culture in Granfield’s Amazing Grace.” Journal of Black Studies. Volume 36, No. 3 (pp. 351-361). 2006 “Revolutionary War and Contemporary Students: It Happened a L-O-N-G Time Ago.” The ALAN Review. Volume 31, No. 1 (pp. 53-60). 2003 “Basals in Cameroon: Help or Hindrance.” International Review of Education. Volume (pp. 105-112). 1999. “Childhood in Two African Communities: Ogot’s ‘The Rain Came’ and Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus. The International Research Society for Children’ Literature Conference [IRSCL], Dublin, Ireland. 2005. “Tales in Context: Girlhood and Poverty in Isadora and Pinkney’s Retellings of The Little Match Girl. Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875): A Celebration and Reappraisal Conference, August 2005, London, England. “Paying the Price for Survival: Young African Women and the City,” MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA. December 2004. “Authenticity, Hybridity, and Literature About African Children.” Swiss Institute for Child and Youth Media, Zurich, Switzerland. November 2004. Invited Paper. “Adolescent Girls in Dangaremgba’s Nervous Conditions: The Search for Identity.” MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, ILL. December 1999. Editorial Review Board: Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (2003-2009) Language Arts (1998-2002) Sankofa: Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature (Section Editor: 2007-) Courses Taught: Literature for Children Literature for Young Adults Teaching Communication in Secondary Schools Literature and Society: Constructions of Childhood Composition 1 & 2
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