Katrina Daly Thompson

Chair, African Studies IDPs; Assistant Professor; and African Languages Coordinator

Department: Applied Linguistics

10244 Bunche Hall
P.O. Box 951310
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Campus mailcode: 131003
Tel: 310-794-1972
Fax: 310-206-2250
kdthompson@humnet.ucla.edu
Personal Website

Keywords: Africa, African Cinema, African literatures, African popular cultures, Cultural Studies, Film, Humanities, Language, Language Proficiency, Linguistics, Literature, media studies, Post-Colonial African Literature, Shona, sociolinguistics, Swahili, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

Katrina Daly Thompson received her Ph.D. in African Languages and Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. She teaches all levels of Swahili language courses, as well as Swahili culture, and coordinates the instruction of other African languages. Her research concerns the literatures and popular cultures of Zimbabwe and Tanzania, particularly with respect to representations of ethnicity and the relationships between language, identity, and language attitudes; as well as the effects of globalization on Shona and Swahili speakers' use of films, television programs, comics, music, and popular literature.

Thompson is also involved in developing materials, both print and online, for the teaching and learning of Shona and Swahili.