Dr. John Kwame Tawiah-Boateng is an assistant professor of English at Augustana College.  His main area of specialization is Interdisciplinary Approaches to African, Diasporic, and Postcolonial Literatures.  He also has teaching and research interest in Multicultural Literature, World Literature, Modern British, and Gender Studies.  Dr. Tawiah-Boateng studied English and French at the Universities of Ghana and Dakar, and taught high school briefly in Ghana.  He worked as a translator and news monitor with the Reuters News Agency, the News Agency of Nigeria, the BBC, and the U.S. Embassy in Ivory Coast.  He later studied for a Masters degree in English at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, and the Ph. D. at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.  He taught for two years at DePaul University in Chicago. Dr. Tawiah-Boateng's courses for this year include College Writing; Modern Fiction; Anglophone Literature; Writing About Literature; and Writers, Thinkers, Believers.