2023

January: Officially received grant of $15,000 from the African Poetry Digital Portal for Digital Humanities Research on African poetry.

2022

July: Started a new position as Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.

June: Defended my dissertation at Cornell University. Officially Dr. Adwetewa-Badu.

January: News article published about my digitization work with the University of Ghana and the Cornell Libraries. [Link]

2021

June: I received a very generous grant for my digital poetry archive and lab, The Global Poetics Project, from DCAPS.

June 21: I was interviewed and featured in the Cornell Chronicle. [Link]

April 25: I was invited by Kim Adams, Ph.D., of New York University, to be in conversation about Distant reading and the Digital Humanities for the “High Theory” podcast. Please take a minute (or 14) to listen to our conversation. [LINK]

I have been awarded the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship for 2021-2022