{"id":405,"date":"2023-02-25T22:34:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T22:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/ingles\/?page_id=405"},"modified":"2023-03-01T17:33:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T17:33:48","slug":"dannabang-kuwabong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/humanidades.uprrp.edu\/ingles\/?page_id=405","title":{"rendered":"Dannabang Kuwabong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Office:<\/strong> Pedreira, 6A
Phone:<\/strong> (787) 764-0000 ext. 89640
Email:<\/strong>\u00a0dannabang.kuwabong@upr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Academic Degrees<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PhD.<\/strong> English, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Doctoral Thesis:  Apocrypha of Nanny’s Secrets: The Rhetoric of Recovery in Africaribbean Women\u2019s Poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MES.<\/strong> Environmental Studies. York University, Toronto, Canada. Thesis: Myth in Environmental Thought: The Case of Dagaaba Bagre<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MLITT<\/strong>. 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.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BA (Honours<\/strong>). English with Modern History, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Areas of Expertise:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postcolonial Theory and Literary Studies: Caribbean Culture and Literature, Caribbean Women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>; The Caribbean Writer<\/em>; Eleven Eleven<\/em>; The Prairie Schooner<\/em>; Kola: A Multicultural Magazine<\/em>; Interviewing the Caribbean<\/em>; In Positive Interferences: Unsettling resonances in the study of the languages, literatures and cultures of the Greater Caribbean and beyond<\/em>, International Journal of Research in Medical and Health Sciences;<\/em> etc. He has published numerous articles in peer reviewed books and literary journals such as Sargasso:<\/em> A Journal of Literature, Language & Culture<\/em>; Caribbean Studies;<\/em> Journal of the Motherhood Initiative<\/em>, ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature<\/em>, La Torre; <\/em>Monograph Series of NAAAS & Affiliate;, <\/em> Confluences Essays on the New Canadian Literature; <\/em>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<\/em>; Archaeologies of Erasures and Silences Recovering othered languages literatures and cultures in the Dutch Caribbean and beyond<\/em>; Myth Performance in the African Diasporas: Ritual, Theatre and Dance;<\/em> 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<\/em>, Journal of Dagaare Studies<\/em>, etc. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selected Publications: Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n