Honors Program, Ethel Waddell Githii

Dr. Pushpa Parekh is a Professor in English and the Director of the Honors Program at Spelman. She teaches various courses including: "New U.S. Immigrant Women's Literature", “Contemporary African Literature,” "Victorian and Modern British Literature", "Postcolonial Theory and Women’s Literature", "Images of Women in Non-Western Literature", and "African Diaspora and the World". Her publications include two books: Response to Failure: Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Dylan Thomas ( Peter Lang, 1998) and a co-edited volume, Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook (Greenwood Press, 1998). She has also published chapters and articles on British, American and Post-colonial literature. She can be reached at (404) 270-5664 or pparekh@spelman.edu.