What happened between Uju Anya and Jeff Bezos?
As an associate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Uju Anya is responsible for the research and academic administration in the department of Modern Languages. Her primary research interests include critical applied linguistics, critical sociolinguistics, and critical discourse studies. These research subjects look at the roles that racial, gendered, sexual, and…
As an associate professor of second language acquisition at Carnegie Mellon University, Dr. Uju Anya is responsible for the research and academic administration in the department of Modern Languages.
Her primary research interests include critical applied linguistics, critical sociolinguistics, and critical discourse studies.
These research subjects look at the roles that racial, gendered, sexual, and social class identities play in the acquisition of new linguistic skills from the viewpoints of African American students.
Her areas of interest include service-learning and civic engagement in secondary and tertiary level language programs, applied linguistics as a social justice practice, intercultural communication, diversity, equity, and inclusion in instructional methods and curriculum design, as well as.
What happened between Uju Anya and Jeff Bezos?
Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, criticized American university lecturer Uju Anya for wishing the Queen an “excruciating” death in a tweet.
Before the news of the Queen’s passing yesterday evening, the professor of linguistics of Nigerian ancestry sent the contentious tweet. She has already faced outrage online, with many asking for her dismissal.
Anya’s tweets were “slammed” by Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and one of the richest people in the world, who said: “This is someone purportedly working to make the world better? In my opinion, no. Wow.”
