We are a humanities lab focused on experimental, humanistic, and creative methods in poetry research. We are an independent research group that has benefitted greatly from affiliations, collaborations, funding, and engagement from numerous people, institutions, and agencies. Our research assistants, poetry ambassadors, lab members, and advisors contribute to the network of poetic affiliation we study and foster to develop.
Our People
Director & Founder
Ama Bemma Adwetewa-Badu is the founder and director of the Global Poetics Project. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Ama Bemma’s research focuses on contemporary poetry and poetics, comparative Black literary theory and cultural studies, and the engagements and networks of cultural and artistic affiliation formed by Africans on the continent and the diaspora with others in the world.
Data Consult & Strategist
Théophile Ossinga is a data science consult and strategist for the Global Poetics Project. Theo also consults with our web design and communications lab members. He also serves as our outsources web design technician through Ajuma Digital.
Graduate research Assistant
‘Gbenga Adeoba is a Ph.D. student in the Comparative Literature program at Washington University in St. Louis. His doctoral research focuses on the media genealogies and ecologies of African and African diaspora poetry.
GPP- Humanities Digital Workshop Fellow
Max Carol is a PhD student in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on modernist literature and postcolonial studies. He is also a frequent contributor to the Finnegans Wake Extensible Elucidation Treasury (fweet.org), for which he has written over 1,000 annotations to James Joyce’s final novel.
GPP- Humanities Digital Workshop Fellow
Shraya Sandhir is an undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis majoring in English with a Creative Writing Focus in Poetry and minoring in Biology. Beyond her academic pursuits, Shraya is the editor-in-chief of a campus women’s magazine and enjoys singing and playing guitar. She is interested in the Digital Humanities as a tool for preservation, accessibility, and digitization, and is excited to engage with poetry in this regard through the Global Poetics Project.
Global Poetics Project Admin & Poets' Marketplace Data
Jessica Tuleassi participates as an admin for all of the Global Poetics Project suite of initiatives and is also working to build Poets’ Marketplace’s magazine, publishing, and agent profiles for site users.
Research Assistant
Jared Gelerter is an undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, double majoring in IPH (the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities) and Data Science, while pursuing a minor in Arabic. Outside of university life, he is a national ROTC scholarship recipient, and has been awarded his battalion’s “Outstanding Cadet” award (MSI level), as well as the national “Cadet of the Week” award. He is most fascinated by the intersections between his interests, which led him to the Global Poetics Project.is a social media and marketing volunteer for the Global Poetics Project.
pAST CONTRIBUTORS
Jeffrey Raymond Hall, Kobby Badu, Jeff Harnois, Ella Snyder, Amy Littleford, Samantha Paz, Emmanuel Buatsi-Detse, Patrick Hunner, Jasmine Mae Constantino, Rehana Lalani, Abena Badu, Elizeta Pylioti, Caelinn Olivia, Anna Bedalov, Eenam Vang, Dalaina Yamawaki, Amanda Beres, Miriam Xia, Sharon Jennifer Ackon, Henneh Kyereh Kwaku, Pamilerin Jacob