Dr SILKILUWASHA, Y. M. Mpale
Senior Lecturer
Office: Quadrange Room 117
Mpale Yvonne Mwansasu Silkiluwasha is a Senior Lecturer of Literature at the University of Dar es salaam in the Department of Literature. She hold a PhD in English Studies from Illinois State University, USA where she joined the program as a Fulbright Scholar. Her research interests are childhood studies; particularly, the intersection between children's literature and issues of marginality. Her most recent publications have been on the representation of children and young adults with disabilities and those living in the streets in children's stories together with the position of African culture in terms of language and orality in globalised literary texts.