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The Faculty
 • Gloria Cuadraz, Ph.D.
 • Duku Anokye, Ph.D.
 • Manuel Avalos, Ph.D
 • Luis Cabrera, Ph.D.
 • Shari Collins-Chobanian, Ph.D.
 • Alejandra Elenes, Ph.D.
 • Kristin Koptiuch, Ph.D.
 • Ime Ukpanah, Ph.D.

Akua Duku Anokye, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English
Coordinator of Composition
 

Office: FAB N230L
Phone: (602) 543-6020
E-mail: aanokye@asu.edu
 

Education
Ph.D., City University of New York, Linguistics Graduate School of & University Center

Akua Duku Anokye, Associate Professor of Africana Language, Literature and Culture, is a sociolinguist and folklorist researching African American orality and literacy; a Ghanaian ancestress/deity and Africana women’s literary characters; Ghanaian folklore, religion, culture through storytelling, song and dance; and ethnographic collections of oral history.  Among her publications are essays “Oral Connections to Literacy” in Journal of Basic Writing, “Private Thoughts, Public Voices: Letters from Zora Neale Hurston” in Women: A Cultural Review.  Her book Get It Together: Readings About African American Life is an anthology of interdisciplinary readings that provide historical context for issues in African American Experience.  Dr. Anokye has received several grants for her work in Ghana, West Africa on Nan Esi, an archetypal character in African Diaspora women’s literature.

Professor Anokye teaches first year composition, African American Literature, Ethnic Women Writers, Africana Literature, Folklore in Everyday Life, Testimony and Memory (Oral History Seminar), and Folklore, Film and Literature.