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Lives and works in Saint Louis, Missouri and Boston, Massachusetts

Born in Kumasi, Ghana

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Cornell University

M.A., Cornell University

M.A., Clark University

B.A., Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts

SERVICE

Creative Technology

Founder, The Global Poetics Project

Co-founder, Idea Incubator Labs

Elected Positions

Co-chair, Graduate Mentoring and Recruitment Coordinator, Cornell University Literatures in English Department, 2018-2020     

Website and communications assistant for the African Literature Association, 2018

Vice-chair, African Literature Association Graduate Student Caucus, 2016-2017

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Assistant Professor, Washington University in St., Louis

AWARDS AND GRANTS

African Poetry Digital Portal, Digital Project Grant, 2022

Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Ford Foundation, 2021

Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences, 2021

Graduate Fellowship in the Digital Humanities, Society for the Humanities and Cornell University Library, 2019

COURSES

Washington University in Saint Louis

The Practice of Diaspora: Literatures of Race, Power, and Cultural Crossings

Global Poetics

The Digital Black Atlantic

Cornell University

Learning Where You Live: Leadership and Service in Tompkins County

Writing Across Cultures: Poetry as Cultural Critique, Instructor

Great New Books: Innovative Black Poetics