Portia Owusu

Research Interests

• Slavery
• History
• Memory
• Trauma
• Cultural Philosophy

Honors and Awards

• US-UK Fulbright Award
• Accountability, Climate, Equity, and Scholarship Fellowship

Publications

• Spectres from the Past: Slavery and the Politics of “History in West African and African-American Literature, New York: Routledge, 2020.
• “Fighting Fire with Fire: Violence and the Black Liberation Movement” in Perkins, Kathy A., et al. The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance. New York: Routledge, 2018.
• “The Goose and the Gander”: Historical roots of Black Power ideology on violence. Preparing for submission in Black Power: Movement, Cultures and Resistance in the Black Americas (forthcoming by Routledge).

Companies

• Assistant Professor Texas A&M University (2021)
• Visiting Assistant Professor / ACES Fellow Texas A&M University (2019 — 2021)
• University Lecturer - American Literature University of Kent (2017 — 2019)
• Teaching Fellow University of Warwick (2016 — 2017)
• Visiting Scholar US-UK Fulbright Commission (2015 — 2016)
• Substitute Teacher [English Language and Literature] Kingsbury High School (2014 — 2015)
• Teacher of English (GCSE) Brent Council (2014 — 2014)
• Researcher The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2013 — 2013)
• Admissions Adviser Kaplan International Colleges (2010 — 2012)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) SOAS, University of London (2012 — 2016)
• Master of Arts University of York (2009 — 2010)
• Bachelor of Arts (Hons) University of Kent (2004 — 2008)
• BA (hons) American Literature and Studies University of Kansas (2006 — 2007)
• GCSEs and A Levels Convent of Jesus and Mary Language College (1997 — 2002)