Uju Anya teaches and conducts research in Applied Linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Her critical discourse studies generally concentrate on how African American pupils perceive racial, gendered, sexual, and social class identities when they learn new languages.
Biography
Uju Anya was born to a Nigerian father and a Trinidadian mother on August 4, 1976. She is from Enugu State.
Uju Anya is famous for being an ally of the LGBTQ community. She came out in public as a lesbian following her divorce from her husband.
She finished her undergraduate studies in the Romance Languages program at Dartmouth College in 1998 with a B.A. She earned her master’s in Brazilian Studies from Brown University in 2001 and her PhD in linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2011.
Career
Uju Anya began working for Phillips Academy Andover in 1998 as a teaching fellow, where she now teaches high school Spanish immersion courses at the introductory and intermediate levels.
She started working as a guest lecturer at the Dartmouth College Department of Spanish and Portuguese in 2001. In this role, she oversaw the methodology and curriculum for the Portuguese programme, which included cutting-edge multimedia tools, inquiry-based learning, a social focus, and a critical language studies concentration on Afro-Brazilian culture.
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In 2003, Uju Anya began working as a Master Teacher at the Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures. She created Portuguese language courses for American CEOs in Brazil and English language immersion courses for executives in Tokyo, Japan.
Uju Anya was a lecturer of Spanish and Portuguese at the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese from 2005 to 2007.
She later worked as a lecturer in Applied Linguistics & Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) at the UCLA Department of Applied Linguistics. She taught academic writing and research techniques, applied linguistics for graduate and undergraduate students, and service-learning in TESL courses.
Uju Anya also received a position at Pennsylvania State University’s College of Education as an assistant professor of clinical education. The Pennsylvania State University’s College of Education appointed her as an assistant professor of second language learning in 2016 and a research affiliate in the department of curriculum and instruction.
She is currently an Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Modern Languages.
Controversy
The day after Queen Elizabeth II’s passing, on September 8, 2022, Uju Anya tweeted something that many people found offensive. This led to her becoming embroiled in a scandalous web.
The outspoken professor called the late Queen a chief monarch of a thieving and raping genocidal empire in a message that Twitter quickly removed for breaking the microblogging service’s rules of service.
Net worth
Uju Anya’s net worth is estimated at $1.2 million.
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Family
Uju Anya was married but is now divorced. She and her ex-husband had two children. She declared her split from her husband on Twitter, claiming that the proper paperwork had just been completed. She added that she is unmarried and has no plans to settle down. She has also stated that she is now a lesbian.
Tribe
Uju Anya is Igbo from Enugu State in Nigeria. Her mother, however, is a Trinidadian from Trinidad and Tobago.
Uju Anya is very active on her Twitter page. She has more than 177k followers.
She is very expressive and is not afraid to say her mind on the app, even if she is going to step on people’s toes.
Uju Anya and Jeff Bezos
Uju Anya’s controversial tweet about the late Queen Elizabeth II caused a lot of uproar on social media. Her tweet got many people talking, one of which was Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world and the founder of Amazon. He tweeted, “This is someone supposedly working to make the world better? I don’t think so. Wow,”.
Age
Uju Anya was born on August 4, 1976. She is 46 years old.
Conclusion
Uju Anya has gotten several awards and honors, some of which are:
- Outstanding Teaching Award for 2020 from the Penn State College of Education
- First Book Award for 2019 from the American Association for Applied Linguistics
- Invited Scholar for the 2019 ACTFL/Middlebury Research Forum
- Faculty Teaching and Mentoring Award from the USC Rossier School of Education for 2015.
- 2010 Thurgood Marshall Dissertation Fellowship, Dartmouth College.
- 2008 Manos Amigas Volunteer of the Year Award from Centro Latino for Literacy.
- UCLA’s Eugene Cota-Robles Doctoral Fellowship, 2007.
- 1999 Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship at Brown University.
- Teaching Spanish at Phillips Academy Andover Fellowship in 1998.
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