Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang (PhD)
Director of the Ashesi Writing Center: Comparative Literature
Adwoa was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University and the 2020–21 Du Bois-Mandela-Rodney Fellow at the University of Michigan. She obtained her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto, where her thesis was accepted without corrections. She holds a Master’s from the Paris-Sorbonne Université and an MA from the University of Cape Coast. Adwoa is the author of Typologies of Humor in African Literatures.
- Written and Oral Communication
- Text and Meaning
- African Literatures
- Comparative Literature and Translation
- French and Francophone Literature
- Opoku-Agyemang, Adwoa A. Typologies of Humor in African Literatures. University of Michigan Press, 2024. https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/Typologies-of-Humor-in-African-Literatures3
- Opoku-Agyemang, Adwoa A. and Jeanne-Marie Jackson, eds. Ethiopia Unbound: A Critical Edition. Michigan State University Press, 2024.
- Opoku-Agyemang, Adwoa A. “Comic Interpreting in African Literatures,” English Literary History, 89.3, August 2022, 757—779.
- Opoku-Agyemang, Adwoa A. and Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang. “Flash Fiction and Popular Culture.” In The Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture. Ed. Grace Musila, Routledge, 2022, 168–183.
- Opoku-Agyemang, Adwoa A. “Trickster Ambivalence in Kwaw Ansah’s Praising the Lord Plus One,” Journal of Religion & Film, 22 (3, Article 2) December 2018.
- PhD, Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada
- MA: Bilingual Translation, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
- Master à finalité recherche, mention littérature, philologie, linguistique; spécialité littératures comparées (Mention Bien), Sorbonne Université
- BA: French with English, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
