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 the author of African Poetry, Black Transnationalism, and the Making of World Literature, which is under contract with Cambridge University Press. She is an Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Ama Bemma’s research focuses on contemporary poetry and poetics, African and Black diasporic literary and cultural studies, the digital humanities, and the public humanities. Her research is rooted in comparative thinking across the diaspora, tracking and charting the movements and engagements of African poets in the diaspora, and the literary labor produced by Africans in and with the world. Dr. Adwetewa-Badu earned her doctorate from Cornell University.
Digital Humanities Fellow
Henry Miller is an undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis majoring in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology with a minor in Mathematics. Henry is interested in the intricacies of the intersection of natural language processing tasks and poetic form and style, as well as the mimetic limitations of LLMs concerning non-Western literary style and syntax.
Digital Humanities Fellow
Mina Recipe is an undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis majoring in English with a Publishing specialization and minoring in French and Data Science for the Humanities. She is fascinated with the unique ways that poetic style can be explored through and expand our understandings of digital humanities practices.
Past Lab Members and Contributors
‘Gbenga Adeoba
‘Gbenga 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.
Max Carol
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.
Shraya Sandhir
Shraya 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.
Jessica Tuleassi
Jessica 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.
Jared Gelerter
Jared 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.
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