Thesis title:
Belonging in Afropolitan Texts from Ghana, Nigeria and their Diasporas
Research Area
Conferences
September, 2018
- ASAUK, University of Birmingham, UK
Chairing a panel and presenting the following papers:
'Online Texts and Autobiographical Moments of Belonging: A Reading of Taiye Selasi's Writing'
'Questions of (Im)morality: A Reading of Women's Gender Roles and Sexualities in Contemporary Nigerian Novels'
May-June, 2017
- Cadbury Conference, University of Birmingham, UK
'Writing Beyond Marriage: (Il)legitimate Sexualities in the Contemporary Nigerian Novel'
September, 2015
- AfroEuropeans, University of Munster, Germany
'Perceptions of Belonging in the 21st century: Exploring African/Black Identity Practices in Autobiographical Moments'
Public Engagement & Impact
Research visits:
2018
- Lagos, Nigeria (September-November, 8 weeks). Meeting with and interviewing the producers of a cultural event, visiting University of Lagos as a visiting fellow and presenting a paper on my PhD to members of staff in the Faculty of Arts, and moderating a panel on Afropolitanism at Aké Art and Book Festival.
2019
- Accra, Ghana (January-March, 6 weeks). Meeting with and interviewing the creator and cast of an Accra-based web series and leading a workshop on how to begin a research project, aimed at graduate students in the Department of English at the University of Ghana, Legon.
- Washington, D.C., USA (May, 1 week). Visiting and interviewing a Ghanaian-American cultural producer.
Training:
2018
- Filmmaking for Fieldwork (training course at Futureworks School of Media in Manchester, UK)
Other activities:
2017
- Organising an interdisciplinary postcolonial conference aimed at postgraduate students and early career scholars at the University of Birmingham.
- Working as a Research Assistant in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology: organising conferences and workshops, arranging travel and accommodation for participants, formatting book manuscript before sending it to publishers.
2018
- Administrative role for the African Studies Association of the United Kingdom (ASAUK), providing support for the Fage and Oliver Monograph Prize committee.
Teaching
2017-18
Visiting lecturer in the Department of African Studies at the University of Birmingham (introductory lectures on African literatures and Afropolitanism)
Previous teaching experience:
2014-2016
English Teacher at KVUC, a college situated in the centre of Copenhagen, Denmark
