Department of English

Patricia Lynn Andujo, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English at Azusa Pacific University, teaching Freshmen Writing Seminar, Introduction to Literature, Children’s Literature, Composition: Theory and Practice, and American Ethnic Literature. In the past, she taught English courses at the University of Illinois for ten years and language arts classes at Amelia Earhart Middle School in Riverside, California for three years. Andujo’s research and teaching interests include African-American literature, nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature, and religious studies and literature. Her dissertation study, Gendering the Pulpit: Religious Discourse and the African-American Female Experience, traces the entry of African-American women into religious discourse and their continuous appropriation of a literary tradition that grants them voice. Andujo currently resides in Riverside, California with her husband, Rev. Julio A. Andujo, where she enjoys serving her church and community.