Gorrety Nafula Wawire

Contact Information

Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801

Graduate Teaching Assistant

PREDOC FELLOW

Research Interests

Discourse Analysis; Ethnography; Language and Identity in the African Diaspora; Migration, Language, Race, and Gender; African Feminism; Black Feminism; Language Ideology

Education

B.A in Linguistics and Literature, Kenyatta University, 2013
M.A in TESL, University of Mississippi, Oxford, 2017
M.A in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020

Courses Taught

LING 250 - Linguistic Diversity in the US

SWAH 201 - Elementary Swahili I

SWAH 202 - Elementary Swahili II

SWAH 403 - Intermediate Swahili I

SWAH 404 - Intermediate Swahili II

Additional Campus Affiliations

Graduate Minor in Gender Relations in International Development; Women and Gender in Global Perspectives at Illinois

In The News

Congratulations to Wafa Abdulla and Gorrety Wawire for receiving SLCL dissertation completion fellowships!
Graduate students Wafa Abdulla and Gorrety Wawire have both received SLCL Dissertation Completion Fellowships for the 2022-23 Academic Year. The fellowship is provided by the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics to advanced doctoral students.
Upcoming April Graduate Student Conference Talks
The 4th Conference of Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL-4), hosted by Indiana University, will take place virtually between April 9th-11th. UIUC Linguistics will be represented at the conference with talk(s) by: Aylin Coskun...
Linguists Convened at ILLS12 to Discuss Language and Linguistics
Graduate students and faculty in Linguistics and related departments from various institutions convened at UIUC for the 12th annual Illinois Language and Linguistics Society Conference (ILLS12) over the course of two days (Feb 28-29, 2020) to present their latest research about language and...