Name: Conference in Honour of Scholars in Language and Literary Studies organized by the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
Start: 2022-09-09
Location: University of Cape Coast

About

Dr. Christabel Aba Sam holds a PhD in Literary Studies, MPhil in English and a Bachelor of Education (English option) degrees from the University of Cape Coast where she currently works as a Lecturer in the Department of English. Her current research interests include African Women's Writers, Masculinity Studies, Postcolonial Futures and Spatial Politics. Dr. Aba Sam is a fellow of the African Multiple Cluster of Excellence at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), University of Lagos, Nigeria and the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of Bayreuth, Germany. Dr. Sam has sole authored and co-authored publications in Scopus/Web of Science and other reputable outlets. She teaches Gender and Writing, Principles of Prose Fiction, Studies in Literature and Society, Research Methods and The Novel in Africa to undergraduate and graduate students.

Focus & expertise

Specializations

African Literature Gender And Sexuality Masculinity Postcoloniality

Academic interests · number = colleagues who share it

African Literature3 Gender Studies4 Postcolonial Literature2 Women Writers2

Recent activity

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Fellowship Jan 2023

Fellow

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Conference Sep 2022

Conference in Honour of Scholars in Language and Literary Studies organized by the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

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Fellowship Jan 2022

Fellow

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Conference Apr 2019

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born @ 50 International Conference organized by the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

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Conference Mar 2019

at the Attah-Gyamfi Britwum Conference organized by the Department of French, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.

Background

🎓 Education & qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy in Literature in English

University of Cape Coast

2018

Master of Philosophy in English

University of Cape Coast

2013

Bachelor of Education in English

University of Cape Coast

2009

Teaching & projects

I believe that a teacher is morally obligated to enter the classroom with only the highest of expectations for each and every one of her students. Thus, the teacher maximizes the positive benefits that naturally come along with any self-fulfilling prophecy. With dedication, perseverance, and hard work, her students will rise to the occasion. I aim to bring an open mind, a positive attitude, and high expectations to the classroom each day. I believe that I owe it to my students, as well as the community, to bring consistency, diligence, and warmth to my job in the hope that I can ultimately inspire and encourage such traits in the students as well.

Teaching philosophy

Publications ORCID 0000-0002-7926-0395 →

2025 Masculinity, traumatic memories and futurity: an engagement with Nii Ayikwei Parkes’ Tail of the Blue Bird journal article

2024 Gendering visions of the postcolonial modernist state through names: a literary onomastic analysis of Nii Ayikwei Parkes’s Tail of the Blue Bird (2009) journal article

Engagements

📅 Conferences attended

2022 Conference in Honour of Scholars in Language and Literary Studies organized by the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. Paper presenter · University of Cape Coast

2019 The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born @ 50 International Conference organized by the Department of English, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana Paper presenter · University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

2019 at the Attah-Gyamfi Britwum Conference organized by the Department of French, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana. Paper presenter · University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

2016 the 2nd University of Cape Coast, Faculty of Arts Colloquium on Arts and Indigenous Health. Paper presenter · University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana