Yaw Agawu-Kakraba

Professor of Spanish and African Studies

129 Hawthorn Building

Area(s) of Specialization: Twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary Spanish fiction and culture; Afro-Hispanic literature and cultures.

Professional Bio

Yaw Agawu-Kakraba holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic languages, literatures, and cultures from Cornell University as well as an M.A. in Spanish from the University of Alberta in Canada. His research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary Spanish fiction and Afro-Hispanic literature and cultures. He is the author of Postmodernity in Spanish Fiction and Culture (University of Wales Press), Demythification in the Fiction of Miguel Delibes (Peter Lang), and co-editor of Diasporic Identities Within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts (Cambridge Scholars Publishing), and African, Lusophone, and Afro-Hispanic Cultural Dialogue (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). His scholarly publications have appeared in journals in the United States, Spain, France, Canada, Japan, and elsewhere. He has co-organized for the past fourteen years the biannual International Conference on Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian, and Latin American Studies (ICALLAS) held at the University of Ghana, Legon.