Graduate Student Directory

French

Dare E. Ehigie

Education: NCE, Colben-Benin; B.A.Ed. University of Benin; DALF C2, CIREL-VB Lomé; M.A., University of Benin (Distinction) ; MRes, University of Birmingham; QTS, London; Post-Master Diploma, DTS- Kwale & Harvest Bible University (Distinction) ; PHD, DTS- Kwale & Harvest Bible University [ABD]

Scholarly Interests
: African and Francophone Postcolonial Literature; Nigerian Pidgin Morphosyntax; Witchcraft; Eco-photography; Theology & Psychology; AI in Education; Sociolinguistics; Anthropological Linguistics; SEND; Edoid Languages

Affiliations
: Fellow - Global Association for Research and Innovation

Recent Publications
«Le Clézio L’Africain»? The role and place of Africa and Africans in Désert, Onitsha, Gens des Nuages, and L’Africain. University of Birmingham. M.A. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/15222/

L’Exégèse comme narcissisme théologique : Une critique psychologique de l’interprétation erronée dans l’Église du XXe siècle. DTS Journal of Arts and Humanities, Vol. 6 No.1 (1-14). https://gagdm.com/index.php/DTS/article/download/440/442

FEARING THE FAMILIAR: WITCHCRAFT, GOD, AND THE POLITICS OF SUPERNATURAL POWER. CogNexus 1.01 (2025): 286-310. https://wenjibra.com/index.php/cn/article/download/127/42

Junior Pierre Eden Février

Office Hours: 930 Clemens Hall 
Tuesday, Thursday 1-2 pm or by appointment

Scholarly Interests: Morphology and Aktionsart of French-based creoles, with a particular focus on Haitian and Guadeloupean creoles; Computational Linguistics

Donna Park

Education: BA Linguistics , Concordia University; MA Linguistics, Georg-August Universität Göttingen

Scholarly interests: Syntax; Multi-verbal constructions; Language Acquisition; Creole Languages

Recent Publications
Park, D. (2025). Concordant Subject Marking in Mauritian Creole Serial Verb Constructions. [Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America, 10](1), 5937. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v10i1.5937

Spanish

Dee Fleetwood

Education: BA Spanish/BS Biological Sciences, University at Buffalo

Scholarly Interests
: Patagonian Indigenous Studies; Animal Studies, Animals in Literature; Ecocriticism; Anthrozoology

Courses Taught: 
SPA 112 Elementary Spanish II

Office Hours
: Wednesdays 11am–1pm, Thursdays 10am–12pm (Clemens 930)

Aeen Shakeri

Education: BA, Allame Tabataba'i University

Scholarly interests: Colonial Literature

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 12 PM- 1 PM (Clemens 930)