Sarah Ngoh

Assistant Director of First Year Writing

Contact Info

Email:

sarahngoh@ku.edu

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

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

Awards & Honors —

2023-2027 Center for Teaching Excellence Fellow
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
2023-2024 Ideas to Action Grant
2022-2023 Mellon DEI Teaching Scholar
2022-2023 Center for Teaching Excellence Course Transformation Grant
2021 Revolutionizing Academia Learning Community grant