Monique Leslie Akassi

Monique Leslie Akassi (September 10, 1979) is a scholar, writer, editor, education activist, and a professor of English. Raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, she lives in Washington DC.
Akassi is an Assistant Professor of English Composition and Rhetoric and Director of Composition Studies at Bowie State University in Bowie, Maryland. She is a graduate from the University of Cincinnati, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Comparative Literature; a Master of Arts in English Composition and Rhetoric from Wright State University; a Doctor of Philosophy in English from Morgan State University; and is taking courses at Harvard University.
She is the mother of Amare Patrick Leslie, ten year old author of the children's book Crash, and wife to Clement Animan Akassi, Associate Professor of Spanish and Director of the Graduate program in the Department of World Languages at Howard University and author of the book, Postcolonial Discourses and Renegotiations of the Black Identities. She is also the eldest of four siblings to Dwight Cummings Sr., and Jetaunne Cummings.
Actively involved in research, teaching, and service in academia and in the communities, in 2013 she was awarded Teacher of The Year at Bowie State University. She is also the author and/or editor of five books: Neo Hybrid Pedagogyin Post Colonialism Composition: An Investigation on Writing Portfolios For African American Students, a quantitative study of the effects of writing portfolios and African American students; Postcolonial Composition Pedagogy, which includes her coined notion of postcolonial composition pedagogy serving as a teaching methodology of instruction where students write to regain their identity back through the implementation of their culture into writing intensive courses; Research and Writing Across The Curriculum, which is used as a required textbook by some universities in writing intensive courses; Engagements With Interactive English At Bowie State University, a required textbook for developmental English Composition courses; Expository Writing, Argument, and Research at Bowie State University, a required textbook used in universities for English Composition 101 and 102 courses; and two journals: Bowie State University’s Journal of Undergraduate Research and Writing Across The Curriculum and Journal of Africana Composition and Rhetoric'; and the forthcoming book W.E.B. Du Bois Africana Rhetoric of Dealienation with a foreword by W.E.B. Du Bois' great grandson, Arthur McFarlane III, which will release in 2014.

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