Uju Anya 's bio, education, career, husband and kids, accomplishments, and controversies Uju Anya is a professor of applied linguisti...
Uju Anya's bio, education, career, husband and kids, accomplishments, and controversies
Uju Anya is a professor of applied linguistics and a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University. Most of his critical discourse works look at how race, gender, sexuality, and social class affect how African American students learn a new language.
Her father was from Nigeria and her mother was from Trinidad. She was born on August 4, 1976. Uju is an indigene of Enugu state.
Uju Anya is also well-known for the way she helps the LGBTQ community. After getting divorced from her husband, she told everyone she is a woman.
2011: Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles
2001 Master's Degree in Brazilian Studies, Brown University
1998: B.A. in Romance Languages from Dartmouth College. Since 1998, Uju has been a Teaching Fellow at the Phillips Academy Andover, where she teaches high school Spanish immersion classes for beginners and intermediates.
In 2001, she started teaching Portuguese as a guest speaker in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth College. In this role, Uju was in charge of the Portuguese program's content and how it was taught. This included things like inquiry, a focus on social issues, and a critical language studies focus on Afro-Brazilian culture.
In 2003, Uju became a Master Teacher at the Rassias Center for World Languages and Cultures. She taught and planned training courses in English for executives in Tokyo, Japan, and in Portuguese for executives from the United States in Brazil.
From 2005 to 2007, Uju worked at the UCLA Department of Spanish and Portuguese as a Lecturer of Spanish and Portuguese Languages.
She then worked as a Lecturer, Applied Linguistics and Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL), for the UCLA Department of Applied Linguistics. In this role, Uju taught applied linguistics, TESL, service-learning in TESL, academic writing, and study skills to both graduate and undergraduate students.
Uju was also given a job as an assistant professor of clinical education at Pennsylvania State University's College of Education.
In 2016, Uju was hired as an assistant professor in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction Research Affiliate, Center for the Study of Higher Education at The College of Education at Pennsylvania State University.
She is currently a Professor of Second Language Acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Modern Languages Associate.
Before she split up, Uju was married. She had two kids with her ex-boyfriend.
Uju wrote on Twitter that she and her husband had just finished the paperwork for their divorce and that they were getting a divorce. She also said she is single and has no plans to get married.
Since 2017, they have been formally split up, but the final decree just got filed. I can now legally never marry anyone else again. I told a close friend that I wish I could throw a big party for my divorce, but we're in the middle of a plague. This utter sweetheart sent me flowers.
American Association for Applied Linguistics First Book Award ACTFL/Middlebury Research Forum Invited Scholar Penn State College of Education Outstanding Teaching Award USC Rossier School of Education Faculty Teaching and Mentoring Award Dartmouth College Dissertation Fellowship for Thurgood Marshall
Dissertation Year Fellowship from the UCLA Graduate Division (turned down)
Centro Latino for Literacy Volunteer of the Year Award from Manos Amigas
Eugene Cota-Robles Doctoral Studies Fellowship at UCLA
Irene Diamond Fellowship for Graduate Studies at Brown University Phillips Academy Andover Spanish Teaching Fellowship
Uju Anya got into a lot of trouble on September 8, 2022, because of a tweet she sent after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
The tweet called the Queen "a chief monarch of a thieving, raping, genocidal empire." It was later taken down because it broke the rules of the microblogging platform.
She wrote, "I heard that the king of a kingdom that stole, raped, and killed people is finally dying. May she feel terrible pain."
People on Twitter were very angry about her tweet because they thought it was inappropriate, but some people liked it.
Someone is trying to make the world a better place, right? I don't believe that. Wow.
Even though she got a lot of bad feedback, Uju Anya never changed her mind. She quoted the tweet from the U.S. billionaire and added an Igbo phrase, "Otoro gba gbue gi," which means "May you rot by your putrid bowels and die from diarrhea you can't stop."
She also claps back when other Internet users call her out. In another tweet, she said, "If anyone expects me to have anything but contempt for the monarch who oversaw a government that funded the genocide that killed and displaced half of my family and whose effects those still alive today are still trying to overcome, you can keep wishing upon a star."
But Carnegie Mellon University has said that it has nothing to do with what Uju Anya did. The university said in a statement, "We do not agree with the offensive and upsetting message that Uju Anya shared today on her personal social media account. Higher education is based on the idea that people should be free to speak their minds. However, the views expressed do not reflect the values of the school or the level of discourse we want to encourage.
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