Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
vxy102@psu.edu
Assoc. Prof of Education, Language and Literacy Education
Vivian Yenika-Agbaw is associate professor in the department of Curriculum and Instruction. She teaches courses in Literature for Children/Adolescents. Before joining Penn State faculty she taught high school English in Cameroon, and held tenure-line faculty positions at Clarion University, and Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania where she also taught English Language Arts (Department of Education), a variety of literature and composition courses, and secondary English methods (Department of English). Her research interests include cultural studies with emphases on African/African Diaspora Literature for Children/Adolescents, Multicultural Literature, & Adolescent and Critical Literacies. She is an assistant editor of Sankofa: Journal of African Children's and Young Adult Literature and has served, or is currently serving on the editorial boards of IRA's Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and NCTE's Language Arts. She has published several books, one of which is Representing Africa in Children's Literature: Old and New Ways of Seeing by Routledge.

