معرفی
Tsitsi Jaji is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Arts and Sciences. Her work explores intersections of continental African digital media practices with global black diasporas through theoretical frameworks like Édouard Glissant's concept of cultural viruses.
- Research examines how virtuality shapes pan-Africanism's afterlives in literature, films, and hypertexts
- Analyzes tensions between globalization-as-consumerism and transnational political solidarity
Research Focus
Investigates digital cultural flows connecting Africa to diasporic communities, emphasizing improvisatory dynamics and the imagined geographies of black solidarity. Current work titled Downloadable Diasporas interrogates contemporary articulations of pan-African identity through digital consumption patterns.
Awards
- Andrew W. Mellon Penn Faculty Fellow in the Humanities (2010-2011)
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