Mwita Mwita

I joined the Department of Sociology and the Center for Africana Studies at Oklahoma State University in Fall 2024. I received my BA in Swahili language and Literature from Moi University in Kenya, and an MA and a Ph.D. in African Cultural Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research uses Autoethnography and personal narratives to understand how through language, discourses of gender and sexuality are produced, negotiated, and expressed in post-colonial African settings. I am primarily concerned with how local and global discourses shape and influence contemporary black masculinity. Employing both decolonial and transnational feminist methodologies, my research activities and pedagogical approaches recognize the self as a crucial site of social justice activism as well as an important epistemological locus.

Research Interests:

Autoethnography, Decoloniality, Race, Class, & Gender Inequality, Language & Society, Third-World Feminism(s), Foreign Language Pedagogy