Dannabang Kuwabong
Academic Degrees:
PhD. English, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Doctoral Thesis: Apocrypha of Nanny’s Secrets: The Rhetoric of Recovery in Africaribbean Women’s Poetry.
MES. Environmental Studies. York University, Toronto, Canada. Thesis: Myth in Environmental Thought: The Case of Dagaaba Bagre.
MLITT. Modern English Poetry, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK. Thesis: Religion, Town, and Countryside in Three Irish Poets after Yeats: Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh and Seamus Heaney.
BA (Honours). English with Modern History, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana
Areas of Expertise:
Postcolonial Theory and Literary Studies: Caribbean Culture and Literature, Caribbean Women’s Literature, Caribbean Literature and the Environment, Trauma Theory and African Diaspora Literatures, African Diaspora Drama and Performance, Minority Caribbean Cultures and Literatures; Diaspora Caribbean Literature, African Literature, Motherhood Studies, Oral Literature; Medical Humanities.
About:
Dannabang Kuwabong is a Ghanaian-Canadian who teaches Caribbean and Postcolonial Literature in the Department of English, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus. He also taught briefly at the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria; University of Ghana, Ghana; and McMaster University, Canada. He is a poet with four poetry books and a fifth forthcoming. His poetry has appeared in several journals, books and anthologies such as The Mouth Critical Studies on Language, Culture and Society; The Caribbean Writer; Eleven Eleven; The Prairie Schooner; Kola: A Multicultural Magazine; Interviewing the Caribbean; In Positive Interferences: Unsettling resonances in the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond, International Journal of Research in Medical and Health Sciences; etc. He has published numerous articles in peer reviewed books and literary journals such as Sargasso: A Journal of Literature, Language & Culture; Caribbean Studies; Journal of the Motherhood Initiative, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, La Torre; Monograph Series of NAAAS & Affiliate;, Confluences Essays on the New Canadian Literature; Memories of Caribbean Futures Reclaiming the pre-colonial to imagine a post-colonial in the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond; Archaeologies of Erasures and Silences Recovering othered languages literatures and cultures in the Dutch Caribbean and beyond; Myth Performance in the African Diasporas: Ritual, Theatre and Dance; presented papers at numerous international conferences on Caribbean, African American, and African literature. Some conferences attended and presented at are NAAAS & Associates; African Literature Association; Caribbean Literature West Indian Literature Conference; Eastern Caribbean islands Cultures Conference; African Theater Association; Motherhood Initiative Research and Community Involvement (MIRCI) Conference; Writers Project of Ghana; etc. Dannabang Kuwabong has written numerous books reviews, editing and reviewed numerous manuscripts for diverse publishing houses, and is a reader for The Writers Union of Canada, and Demeter Press, etc. He has served on several editorial boards of peer reviewed journals including Caribbean Studies Journal, Journal of Dagaare Studies, etc.
Selected Publications: Books
- Kuwabong, D, Dorsia Smith Silva and Essah Diaz, editors. Mothering, Community, and Friendship.
- Demeter Press, 2022.
- Kuwabong, D, editor. Confluences 3 Essays on the New Canadian Literature. Mawenzi House Ltd.,
- 2022.
- Kuwabong, D, Dorsia Smith Silva and Janet McLennan., editors. Mothers and Daughters, edited,
- Demeter Press, 2017.
- Kuwabong, D, Christopher Olsen, et al. Myth Performance in the African Diaspora: Ritual, Theatre
- and Dance, Scarecrow Press, 2014.
- Kuwabong, D. Voices from Kibuli Country, Mawenzi House Publications Ltd., 2013.
- Kuwabong, D. Caribbean Blues & Love’s Genealogy, Mawenzi House Publications Ltd, 2008.
- Kuwabong, D. Echoes from Dusty Rivers. Capricornus Enterprises, Hamilton, 1999.
- Kuwabong, D. Visions of Venom, Woeli Publishing Services, 1995.
- Kuwabong, D. Naa Kɔnga and other Dagaba Folktales. Woeli Publishing Services, 1992
- Kuwabong, D. et al. Senior Secondary School English Book I, Oxford UP, 1991
- Kuwabong, D. et al. Senior Secondary School English Book II, Oxford UP, 1991
- Kuwabong, D et al. Senior Secondary School English Book III, Oxford UP, 1991.
Forthcoming Books:
- Kuwabong, D. Rhetoric of Resistance, Labor of Love: The Eco-Poetics of Nationhood in the Poetry and Prose of Lasana M Sekou (Essays). House of Nehesi Publishers, 2023
- Kuwabong, D. Sargasso Sea Scrolls (Poetry). Mawenzi House Publishing Ltd., 2023.
Undergraduate Courses:
Medical Humanities Courses:
- English 4995: Comparative Narratives of Trauma, Madness, and healing.
- English 4049: Special Topics in Caribbean Literature and Culture: Geographies of
- Pain: Gendered Violence, Victimization and Resistance in Caribbean Women’s Literature
- English 4049: Special Topics in Caribbean Literature and Culture: Caribbean Women Writers
- of the Diaspora
- English 4049: Special Topics in Caribbean Literature and Culture: Trauma, Madness, and
- Healing in Caribbean Literature
- English 3036: Literature and the Healing Arts
- English 3045: Literature and Ecology
Literature Courses:
- English 4065: Literature, Masculinities and Caribbean Cultural development
- English 3156: Literature and Contemporary Issues in Caribbean Development
- English 4046: Literature and Contemporary Issues of Globalization and Power
- English 3037: The Role of the Literary Magazine in the Development of Contemporary Literature
- English 3218: Fiction
- English 3226: The African-American Experience
- English 3259: The Immigrant Experience
- English 3228: Literature by Women
- English 3229: Caribbean Experience in Literature
- English 3401 & 3402: Afro-Caribbean English Lexifier Creole
Graduate Courses:
- English 8099: Research in Literatures and Linguistics (PhD Program)
- English 8890 & 8891: Comprehensive Exams and Position Paper (PhD Program)
- English 6895 & 6896: Comprehensive Exams and Thesis (Masters)
- English 8104: Caribbean Drama and Performance
- English 8080: The Literature of Kinship in the Caribbean
- English 8080: Disaster Theory and Caribbean Literature
- English 8020: Caribbean Women’s Fiction
- English 8201: Fieldwork in Ghana
- English 6069: Minority Literatures of the Caribbean
- English 6059: Contemporary Literary Theory and Criticism: Postcolonial Ecologies
- English 6488: Literature, Culture and Language of the English-Speaking Caribbean
- English 6486: Caribbean Theory
- English 6410: Caribbean Drama and Poetry
- English 6035: African Literature English 6045 & 6469: Fieldwork in Caribbean Languages: Methodology and Analysis