MIRIAM CHITIGA
Associate Professor of English (tenured)
Depatrtment of English

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EDUCATION:

• Ph.D. - Educational Administration Higher Education Leadership and
• Policies Linguistics, University of South Carolina
• Grad. Cert. - Interdisciplinary Studies, Women's Studies, University of South Carolina
• M. A. - Applied Linguistics , Teaching of English as a Second Language, University of Zimbabwe
• Grad. Dip. - Teacher Education: (M.Ed. approximate), University of Zimbabwe
• B. Ed. - English Education: English Literature Postcolonial Lit., Linguistics and
• Second Language Acquisition , University of Zimbabwe
• Cert. Ed. - Secondary Education: English and Second Language Acquisition, University of Zimbabwe

Languages Studied: English, Shona and Ndebele.

SPECIALIZATION:

Gender and women studies. Linguistics.

HONORS/AWARDS:

• PhD Award, the International Federation of University Women 
• PEO Graduate Award, the International Peace Scholarship
• Harriot Hampton Faucette Award, University of South Carolina Women's Studies Program
• Special PhD Research Scholarship, Stuttafords Removals, Zimbabwe
• Postgraduate Book Prize, University of Zimbabwe
• Postgraduate Merit, University of Zimbabwe
• Undergraduate Distinction in English, University of Zimbabwe