Woods College Faculty

Akua Sarr

Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Boston College

Part-time Faculty, Bachelor of Arts Program

Profile

Currently Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Dr. Sarr is involved in almost all things related to student academic experience, progress, and success at BC. She has been at Boston College since 2006, and has taught in the Woods College since 2010.

A former Fulbright Scholar, Dr Sarr spent a research year in Senegal studying women’s movements and the emergence of feminist literature. Her teaching interests include Contemporary Ethnic American Literature, West African literature and film, African retentions in the Americas, and representations of Africa in contemporary African-American literature.