James Madison University

Department of Foreign Languages,
Literatures, and Cultures

Dr. Besi Brillian Muhonja

muhonjbx@jmu.edu

Keezell B14

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Binghamton University

Dr. Brillian Besi Muhonja is an Assistant Professor of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Africana Studies, and Women’s Studies. She holds a PhD in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture from Binghamton University and is an American Association of University Women Fellow and a Madison Teaching fellow. Her research, publication and teaching areas include Gender Studies/Feminist Theory, African and African American Feminisms, East African Cultures and Swahili Language and Culture. Select publications include Up and Down Purity (2011), She Loved and She Ruled That Kitchen: Space and Autonomy in Kenyan Societies (2009), Ogu Ndem: Aggressive Silence (2009), Notes Towards a Research in African Feminist Theater (2008). She is also curator and editor of the Kiswahili Story Database. She has served and continues to as a gender, culture, creativity, media and education consultant for various organizations in East Africa and the USA.