Sarah E. Ngoh

Sarah Ngoh
  • Assistant Director of First Year Writing

Contact Info

Wescoe Hall, Room 3001G

Education —

Ph.D. in English, University of Kansas
M.A. in Womens and Gender Studies, University of Louisville
M.A. in Pan African Studies, University of Louisville
B.A. in English, Ottawa University

Specialization

African masculinities and nationalisms, Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy, Composition and Rhetoric, esp. using Hip Hop, Writing Pedagogy, Protest Literatures, African & African American Literatures, Disability and Body Studies, Masculinities, Social Justice Pedagogy, Critical Pedagogy of Empathy

Selected Publications —

"Developing a Route to Big Man Masculinity: Protest Masculinity in Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s I Do Not Come to You by Chance”, Palgrave Handbook on African Masculinities, 2023.

Selected Presentations —

  • 2026: Co-Presented at KU’s Student Success Academy Plenary Session: “Expectations vs. Reality: What Students Bring to the Classroom”
  • 2026: “Creating inclusive/engaging/participatory classroom environments,” CTE’s Ready to Launch Seminar
  • 2025: “Teaching First-Year Students and Centering Belonging in the College Classroom,” First-Year Seminar Instructor Training
  • 2025: “Real-Time Course Refinement: Student Check-ins that Drive Success,” Course Design Institute
  • 2019: “International African Writers Day” panelist, hosted by African and Caribbean Student Organization, University of Kansas
  • 2018: “The Repulsive, the Corrupt, and… the Good?: The Nigerian Big Man in Tricia Adaobi Nwaubani’s I Do Not Come to You by Chance,” 18th Annual Africa Conference, University of Texas at Austin.
  • 2016: “Remembering the Dismembered: Armah’s ‘Dis-Abling’ Pan-African Masculinity,” Hall Center for the Humanities Resident Fellows Seminar, University of Kansas.

Awards & Honors —

  • 2023-2024 Ideas to Action Grant
  • 2022-2023 Center for Teaching Excellence Course Transformation Grant
  • 2021 Revolutionizing Academia Learning Community grant

Grants & Other Funded Activity —

  • Center for Teaching Excellence Teaching Fellow 2023-2027
  • 2022-2023 Mellon DEI Teaching Scholar