African Poetry Digital Humanities Projects
The African Poetry Digital Portal, funded by a grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, invites proposals from scholars and researchers for the African Poetry Digital Humanities Grant. These grants support digital humanities research in African Poetry.
About the African Poetry Digital Humanities Grant
First Digital Humanities Grant Awarded to Dr. Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu
The first African Poetry Digital Humanities Grant was awarded (for 2022-2023) to Dr. Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu. Her project: Network Poetics: The Big World of African Little Magazines is a work in progress.
Project Abstract
"Network Poetics: The Big World of African Little Magazines" examines African little magazines and turn the names, locations, and works of the poets, artists, and writers into metadata. This metadata will then be visualized through a network model to highlight the expansive nature of African little magazines. By visualizing the data, this project aims to examine how poetry took flight beyond the specificity of regionalism through the vehicle of the little magazine. In so doing, we aim to highlight the ways in which print culture has been a driving force for Black literary practices on the continent and throughout the diaspora. Researchers and users of the network model will be able to manipulate the visuals in order to answer key questions regarding national identity, language, translation, gender, and cultural themes that arise in the study of little magazines.
Dr. Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu
About Dr. Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu
Dr. Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu is an Assistant Professor of Black Diasporic Literature and African Literatures in English at Washington University in St. Louis. Her research and teaching focus on topics including contemporary poetry, comparative approaches to Afro-diasporic culture and literature, cultural studies, digital literary cultures, and the digital humanities.
