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DR. MARCIANA NAFULA WERE, PhD

DR. MARCIANA NAFULA WERE, PhD

DR. MARCIANA NAFULA WERE, PhD

Faculty of Education

I am a lecturer in Literature with over 10 years teaching and research experience in Higher Education. I have taught Literature in the Faculty of Education, Tom Mboya University since 2018. I have also taught in various institutions within and outside the country since 2015. I have also worked as a researcher in various capacities for different organisations including the Kenya Oral Literature Association, the African Women Studies’ Center and USAID-Funded programs. My teaching and research cuts across different genres including: African Women’s Life Histories, African Auto/Biographical Discourses, Popular Culture, Post-colonial Studies, Oral Literature. Additionally, I participate in community outreach and community service through academic mentorship and career counselling of undergraduate students, and as a BoM Member in Homa Bay County, where I am based.

mwere@tmu.ac.ke

Publications

Were, M. N. (2017). “Kenyan Women in Androcentric Political Culture: from Julia Auma Ojiambo to Affirmative Action”. Social Dynamics, 43(3), 487-504. https://doi.org/10.1080/02533952.2017.1416975
Musati, A.M. & Were, M.N. (2019). “Scholarly Literary Criticism on the Effect of the Child Narrative Voice in Re-Presenting Zimbabweans Different Identities in Noviolet Bulawayo’s Novel We Need New Names: An Analytical Study”. International Journal of Current Research, 12(1), 9560-9574. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24941/ijcr.37789.01.2020
Osoro, T.K., Monte, E.P & Were, M.N. (2020). “Determinants of Marginalization of Women in the Kenyan Music Education Space.” African Musicology Online, 10(2), 74-96. https://www.ajol.info/index.php/amo/article/view/236251
Were, M. N. (2020). “African Political Womanhood in Autobiography: Possible Interpretive Paradigms”. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 35(3), 557-577. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989575.2020.1759872
Were, MN. (2021). “The female body as a site of embodying personal and cultural memories in Nawal El-Saadawi’s autobiographies”. Western African Literary and Cultural Studies, 1(1), 7-19. https://royalliteglobal.com/walcs/article/view/679
Were, MN. (2021). “Online Memes in Kenyan Social Media Platforms as a Modality of Negotiating Gender-based Violence in Androcentric Political Contexts”. Research Journal in Advanced Humanities, 2(3), 7-22. https://doi.org/10.58256/rjah.v2i3.691
Were, MN. (2021). “Naming Practices as a Technique for re-writing African Women into History”. Hybrid Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. 3(3), 6-25. https://doi.org/10.58256/hjlcs.v3i3.656
Were, MN. (2021). “Polar Subjects, Perilous Stories: Intricacies of Narrating Authentic Warriorhood in Madikizela-Mandela’s Testimonials”. Research Journal in Modern Languages and Literatures, 2(3), 7-22. https://doi.org/10.58256/languagesandliteratures.v2i3.692
Makokha K.B., & Were, N.M., Simatwa, E.M.W. (2021). “Influence of Financial Resources on the Implementation of School Safety Standards in Boarding Schools in Kenya: A Case Study of Rangwe Sub-County”. International Journal of Current Research, 13(11), 19631-19640. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24941/ijcr.42682.11.2021
Makokha K.B., Simatwa, E.M.W., Were, N.M. (2021). “Influence of Safety Standards Training on the Implementation of Safety Standards in Boarding Schools in Kenya: A Case Study of Rangwe Sub-County”. International Journal of Current Research, 13, (11), 19641-19650. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24941/ijcr.42683.11.2021
Were, M. N. (2022). “Genealogies as an interpretive paradigm for engaging African women writers’ historical consciousness”. Journal of the African Literature Association, 16(1), 23-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2021.2016250
Ogono, E.L., Ndolo, Were, M.N. & M.A., Simatwa, E.M.W. (2022). “Influence of Head Teachers’ Autocratic Leadership Style on Teacher Performance in Public Primary Schools in Kenya: A Study across Primary Schools in Homa-Bay Sub County”. (ISSN: 0975-833X). International Journal of Current Research, 14(04), 21240-21247. DOI: https://doi.org/10.24941/ijcr.43348.04.2022
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