Gorrety Wawire

Research/Teaching Interests

Linguistic Anthropology and Sociolinguistics

Language and Identity

Critical Ethnography

Swahili Language and Culture

African Diaspora Studies

Education

PhD in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2023.

MA in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), 2020.

MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), University of Mississippi, Oxford, 2017.

BA in English and Literature. Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, 2013.

Courses Taught at Baylor

 Elementary Swahili I (SWA 1301)

Elementary Swahili II (SWA 1302)

Intermediate Swahili I (SWA 2310)

Intermediate Swahili II (SWA 2320)

Selected Publication

Books 

Wawire, G.N. (2025). Elementary Swahili I: An Interactive Guide for Beginners. Open Educational Resource: Baylor University Libraries.

Journal Articles

Wawire, B.A., Wawire, G.N., and Kiroro, F. (2025). Literacy Acquisition in

Kiswahili: Evidence of linguistic properties, structured interventions, structural

relations, and future directions. Reading Research Quarterly (RRQ).

Wawire, G. N. (2024). Discursive scaling of solidarity through difference:

Experiences of African women in the African diaspora. Language in Society, 1–23.

doi:10.1017/S0047404524000046.

Book Review

Wawire G. (2024). Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse, eds. Emancipatory

Feminism in the Time of COVID-19: Transformative Resistance and Social

Production. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2023. 262 pp. Paper. ISBN:

9781776148264. African Studies Review, 1-3.