Eddah M. Mutua (Ph.D., University of Wales, Aberystwyth) is Professor of Intercultural Communication at St. Cloud State University, Minnesota.
Her research focuses on African communication research and education, the role of women in grassroots peacebuilding initiatives in post-conflict societies in Eastern Africa, relations between East African refugee and host communities in Central Minnesota, and critical service-learning as a pedagogical practice in peace education. Her work has received national and international recognition. She coordinates a nationally and internationally recognized award-winning service-learning project in Central Minnesota, has won NCA IICD top faculty paper, and co-edited award winning books Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Mathaai: Planting the Future and Internationalization of the Communication Curriculum in an Age of Globalization. Her forthcoming edited book is titled Indigenous African Communication and Media Systems in Digitalized Age (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024). Her publications appear in Language and Intercultural Communication, Review of Communication, The Journal of Social Encounters, Qualitative Inquiry, Africa Media Review, African Yearbook of Rhetoric, Women & Language, Text and Performance Quarterly, Qualitative Inquiry and several edited intercultural books. She has served as a guest editor of Africa Media Review and The Journal of Social Encounters special issues on peace communication in Africa. Currently, she serves as a member of the editorial boards of Howard Journal of Communication, Communication Monograph and Journal of Social Encounters and previously as editorial member of Review of Communication.
Recent publications:
Mutua, E.M., & Chirindo, K. (2024). Sawubona Philosophy of African Communication (SPAC). In K. Langmia (ed.), Black communication theory (vol 2, pp. 189-209). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Chirindo, K., & Mutua, E. (2024). Toward an African critical orientation. Communication Studies, 75(4), 390-406.
Mutua, E.M., & Kang, D. (2024). Constructing transcultural identities from global racial-justice events: A dialogue of Zulu, Kiswahili, and Chinese conceptions. Language and Intercultural Communication, 1-16. DOI: 10.1080/14708477.2024.2307598
Mutua, E. M, Musa, B. A., & Okigbo, C. (2022). (Re)visiting African communication scholarship: Critical perspectives on research and theory. Review of Communication, 22(1), 76-92. DOI: 10.1080/15358593.2021.2025413.
Mutua, E. M. (2021). Sawubona – We see, value, and respect you: A critical pedagogical invitation to communicate. In D. S. Strasser (Ed.), Communication and identity in the classroom: Intersectional perspectives of critical pedagogy (pp. 125-139). Lanham, MD: Lexington.
Mutua, E. M. (2020). Memorializing the work of Bishop Cornelius Korir in advancing grassroots peacebuilding in Kenya: Perspectives on Amani Mashinani. Journal of Social Encounters, 4(1), 1-8.
Mutua, E. M. (2020). Service for peace: Working with students and youth to plant the future. In E. Sample & D. Irvin-Erickson (Eds.), Building Peace in America (pp. 105-118). Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield.
Mutua, E. M. (2019). Connecting local and global communication contexts in the classroom: Intercultural engagements with university and K–12 students. In P. Turner, S. Bardan, T. Holden & E. M. Mutua (eds.), Internationalizing the communication curriculum in the age of globalization (pp. 223-234). New York, NY: Routledge.
Work for CID:
Edda Mutua was one of the participants at the Istanbul conference leading up to the creation of the Center for Intercultural Dialogue; in addition, she is participating in an expert group for the Center.
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