Alimsiwen E. Ayaawan (PhD) is an Adjunct Lecturer at Ashesi. He has a PhD in Academic Literacies from the University of Ghana and an MPhil in Literature, with a specialisation in Postcolonial Theory from the University of Cape Coast. Alimsiwen has over a decade of teaching and research experience in higher education in Ghana. At Ashesi, he teaches Written and Oral Communication, and Text and Meaning. He is also a Full-time Faculty Member at the University of Ghana where he has taught courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. These courses include Critical Discourse Analysis, Philosophical Foundations of the Humanities, Aspects of Postcolonial Literature, Research Methods, and Academic Writing among others. He serves as a resource person at the Pan Africa Doctoral Academy which organises workshops for PhD students across Africa.

Alimsiwen’s teaching philosophy is underlined by the position that teaching and learning is critical reflection i.e. to teach and to learn is to think critically not just about what you are teaching and learning but about how you are thinking about what you are teaching and learning. His teaching is therefore an invitation to undertake meta-reflection beyond the classroom. Alimsiwen is a member of the Linguistics Association of Ghana, a founding member of the Africa Pragmatics Association, and a founding member of Emerging Scholars in Language, Literary Arts and Communication. Alimsiwen’s current research focus is on Academic literacies, Decolonisation, and Multilingualism and Urban Architecture.