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Biography

Blondie Natacha Lekemo Ngatchi Epse Pawa (It is O.K. just to say Natacha Pawa) is a Substitute Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Lehman College. Natacha Pawa received her Ph. D and a M.A in French, as well as two advanced doctoral certificates in Interactive Technology Pedagogy and Film Studies, at the CUNY Graduate Center. She completed part of undergraduate and graduate studies in Cameroon where she obtained a D.E.A (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) and a Master of Arts in French and francophone studies from University of Yaoundé I, and a B.A in English and French, minor in Linguistics from University of Buea.

Professor Pawa’s research spectrum is broad and interdisciplinary as she has worked in Pedagogy, Linguistics, Comparative literature, Films, Sub-Saharan francophone and Anglophone literatures of Central and Western Africa, Female African American writers (Walker, Morrison), Contemporary French and Francophone culture (HIP-HOP) and Literature (Patrice Modiano). She is also well-versed in theoretical frameworks such as narratology, semiotics, psychoanalysis, historical materialism, and post-colonial theories.

Natacha Pawa has taught many courses ranging from elementary to advanced language, culture and literature of France and the francophone world at CUNY (Hunter College, City College and Brooklyn College), Manhattan University and St John’s University over the past 8 years while building strong students’ communities through inclusive and collaborative approaches of teaching and learning.