Graduate Students

Office Hours: Wednesdays 2 - 3 PM & Fridays 12 - 1 PM

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
Ehigie, D., Braimoh, J. (2026). Digital Communication Practices and Sustainability Messaging in African Contexts: A Cultural Linguistics and Pragmatic Perspective. In: Modugu, K., Otalor, J. (eds) Sustainability and Digital Transformation in Africa. Frontiers in African Business Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-9500-6_6

Dare, E. (2026). FOSSILISATION ET FRUSTRATION: ÉTUDIER LA DÉCADENCE DES CONNAISSANCES GRAMMATICALES DE KS3 À KS4 EN ANGLETERRE. Journal of Languages and Translation, 6(1), 304-317. https://asjp.cerist.dz/en/article/288540

Dare, E. (2024) «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. by Research Thesis. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/15222/

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

Office Hours: Mondays 1 - 2 PM; Wednesdays 1 - 2 PM 

Office Hours: Mondays 11 AM - 12 PM & Fridays 11 AM - 12 PM

Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM; Thursdays 11:30 AM -12:30 PM, or by appointment.

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

Education: BA in French Language and Culture, University of Dhaka; MA in French Language and Culture, University of Dhaka

Scholarly Interests: 19th Century French Literature and Poetics; French Cinemas & Arts of 1960s

Office Hours: Mondays 11:00 am - 12.00 pm and Fridays 10:00 - 11.00 am.

Recent Publications
Liaison in French Language. Journal of The Institute of Modern Languages, vol.31, 239-254.

Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 2 - 3:30 PM

Office Hours: Monday 10 - 11 AM & Wednesday 10 - 11 AM

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: Mondays & Wednesdays 11:15 AM - 1:15 PM

Office Hours: Mondays 10 - 11 AM & Tuesdays 11 AM - 12 PM

Office Hours: Fridays 2:30 - 3:30 PM; Tuesdays 4 - 5 PM (In person or Zoom) & by appointment.

Office Hours: Mondays 11:00 - 11:50 AM & Wednesdays 11:00 - 11:50 AM 

Education: BA, Allame Tabataba'i University

Scholarly interests: Colonial Literature

Office Hours: Mondays 1 - 2 PM; Wednesdays 1 - 2 PM, or Friday by appointment