Name:  Yuvenalis Mukoya Mwairumba Title/Qualifications: M.A (UON) PGDE (KU) B.A. (EGERTON) Department/Unit/Section: Literature Contact Address: 959- 00200 Nairobi Position: Tutorial Fellow Area of Specialization: African Literature Research Interests: Literature and space View full CV

Affiliation to Professional Bodies

• British Institute in Eastern Africa
• Kenya Oral Literature Association

Seminar / Workshops / Conferences

• 4th September 2014:Presented paper at the KU-UCT- FBU Tripartite Workshop at the Free University of Berlin “Cross-Purpose Dialogues: Lexical Choices as a Search for Identity”
• 27th Jan 2014:Presented a Paper at Colloquim: “Reflections on Moyez Vassanji”“Narrating Difference in The In-Between World of Vikram Lall”.
• 12th Sept 2013:Presented a paper at the East Africa at 50 Conference held at the University of Nairobi    “Social Cartographies in Marjorie Oludhe’s Homing in and M. G. Vassanji’s The in-Between World of Vikram Lall”
• 26th JUNE 2013:Presented paper at KU-UCT- FBU North-South Literary Dialogue  Workshop at Kenyatta University“Places and the Reconstitution of Identity in Kosiya Kifefe and In a Brown Mantle.”

Research Interests

• Imagination and representation of places in postcolonial literature