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David Dzaka
Assistant Professor of English

  photo of Dr Dzaka Contact Information:
P.O. Box: 3017
E-mail: ddzaka@messiah.edu
Phone: (717) 796-1800, ext. 3481
Office: Boyer 204
Fax: (717) 796-4790


Education:

B.A., Dip Ed.,Cape Coast

M.Phil., Ghana

Ph.D., Hawaii, Composition Theory and Twentieth Century

Postcolonial Literature


Publications:

Reinventing English Studies in Anglophone Africa. Accra: Impact Publishers. (in press)

  "Theorizing Representations of Christianity in African Literary and Cultural Texts." Journal of Languages and Literatures. (forthcoming)

Shifting Lenses: "Refiguring Writing Instruction in Ghana." Problems of Languages in Education in Africa. (ed.) L.A. Boadi. Winneba: UEW. (in press)

  "Resisting Writing: Reflections on the Postcolonial Factor in the Writing Class." Crossing Borderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies.

(eds) A. Lundsford and L. Ouzgane. Pittsburgh: U Pittsburgh P, 2004, pp 157-170.

Book Review: Contemporary Literature in Ghana: 1911-1976 A Critical Evaluation by Charles Angmor. Wisconsin Review of African Literature. vol 1 no.1, June 2001, pp 107-110.

Angmor et al "Literature in the JSS Language Classroom." English in Ghana.
M.E. Kropp Dakubu (ed.) Accra: G.E.S.A., 1997 pp. 157-172

     
Courses Taught:

World/Postcolonial Literature Courses, "Nonwestern"

Topics COurse

Contemporary British Literature

First Year Seminar

Personal Statement:

My vision for all of my students is that they not only accept, but deeply appreciate our common humanity and the beauty of diversity.

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