Assistant Teaching Professor
Fields of Interest
Research
Selected Research
- Two Hundred Täˀammərä Maryam (Miracles of Mary) Stories, ed. Wendy Laura Belcher, Jeremy Brown, Mehari Worku, Dawit Muluneh. Princeton: Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary project. pemm.princeton.edu.
- Worku, Mehari. "The language of the smart: Sociolinguistic and linguistic features of the Amharic urban youth language." Ebongue, Emmanue and G. Atindogbe Eds. Linguistic and Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Youth Language Practices in Africa: Codes and Identity Writings. Langaa RPCIG, 2019.
- How Multilingual Policies can Fail: Language Politics among Ethiopian Political Parties. In African Linguistics on the Prairie: Selected Papers from the 45th Annual Conference on African Linguistics. Major Travis et al. (eds.). Germany, Language Science Press, 2018. Download PDF
- Mary in the Poetic Theological Works of the Syriac Tradition: A study on Ephrem the Syrian, Jacob of Serugh and Narsai of Nisibis. In The Alexandria School Journal. Alexandria: Agora University Press, 2021.
- 15th-century Ethiopian Orthodox Ecclesiology in Giyorgis of Sägla’s Mäṣhafä Məsṭir, Washington DC, Catholic University of America (Unpublished dissertation)
- Zara Yaqob and Walda Heywat. 2023. The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities. Translated by Ralph Lee, Mehari Worku, Wendy Laura Belcher, and Jeremy R. Brown. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH.
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Spring 2025
Winter 2025
Additional Courses
Elementary Amharic I, AMHAR 101
African Literature: The Ethiopian Virgin Mary, MELC 396
Elementary Amharic II, AMHAR 102
Holy People and Holy Places of the Horn of Africa, MELC 415
Intermediate Amharic, AMHAR 103
Ethiopic Bible and Ethiopic Literature: the first 1500 years, MELC 216
Affiliations
Professional Affiliations
Horn of Africa, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures