Dr. Jocelyn Amevuvor

Dr. Jocelyn Amevuvor obtained her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction, focusing on literacies and English language arts, from Penn State University. She has her master’s in TESOL from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She has taught a range of classes, including English language classes and undergraduate and graduate-level children’s literature courses. Her research interests currently sit at the intersection of children’s literature, multimodal literacies, and pan-African studies.

Select Publications
Yenika-Agbaw, V., Quaynor, P., & Amevuvor, J. (2022). The Scholarship of African Children’s Literature:
Issues of representation of critical voices in the conversation. International Encyclopedia of Education, 4th Ed.
Griffith, J. J., & Amevuvor, J. (2020). Variations on the death of a grandparent: An analysis of youth memoir. English Teaching: Practice & Critique.
Amevuvor, J., & Hafer, G. (2019). Communities in the stalls: A study of latrinalia linguistic landscapes.
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 16(2), 90-106.
Areas of Specialization:
Children’s and Young Adult Literature
Multimodal literacies
Family literacies
Multilingual writing and literacies