Elisabeth NM Ayuk-Etang Expert
Elisabeth NM Ayuk-Etang is a talented and dedicated multidisciplinary tenured Associate Professor with proven track record of teaching excellence, research contributions and mentoring of students for about 20 years, in Environmental Humanities, with a focus on Ecofeminism, Environmentalism and Women Studies through literary narratives. Her teaching, research and community outreach is built on Women’s relationship with the environment (ecofeminism) and their reaction towards contemporary environmental challenges such as climate change, food security etc from a social science and Humanities perspectives
She holds a PhD in African Literature, specifically on Ecofeminism and Black Women’s Writings. She has a post-Masters diploma in Literatures of the America, a master’s degree in Commonwealth Literary Studies, a Post graduate Higher teacher’s Training diploma in Education and a BA in English.
She is a recipient of the prestigious “Janet Hennessey Dilenscheider Scholar Rescue Awards of the Arts”, as well as the University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) Award.
She has supervised two Ph.D Dissertations and about eight master’s degrees thesis in the humanities. She has reviewed several published books, sat on panels in book launch, seminars and conferences as well as she has been coordinator, moderator, and organizer of workshops, seminars and conferences. She has been guest speaker to several universities and events around the world, amongst which are Stanford University, University of California, Santa Barbara and Pennsylvania State University
Elisabeth has been chaired of the Department of English at the University of Buea for about half a decade (five years). During this time, she was the staff representative to the University Senate and council.
Her tenacity as a recognized international scholar with extra ordinary ability won her a seat as a fellow in the Institute of International Education – Scholar Recue Fund (IIE-SRF) and Scholar at Risk (SAR) 2022. This Highly competitive fellowship validated her ability as an extra ordinary professor at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), when she became lead Professor of her courses, at both graduate and undergraduate programs.
Her outreach programs have been solicited by many universities in the world, including Stanford University in 2023 and Pennsylvania State University. Her acceptance to teach at Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA), changed so many dynamics in the Core program where she used her artistic muse to fused Environmentalism, Women Studies and Literature, in creating a program on Ecofeminism. As an international scholar with teaching experience from Africa, to UCSB, a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) and XULA a Historically Black Catholic University (HBCU) speaks volume to her wealth of experience in the field of Environmental Humanities.
