About

Dr. Joanna Boampong is a Senior Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Ghana, Legon.  She obtained her BA from the University of Ghana with a double major in Spanish and French. She earned her MA and PhD degrees in Spanish from the University of Southern California, USA. A former Teaching Assistant at the Department of Modern Languages, she has held teaching positions at the University of Southern California and also at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

She won an African Studies Association (ASA) Presidential Fellowship in 2014, University of Ghana Research Grant in 2012, the Del Amo research Fellowship and summer grant as well as Research Fellow, West Africa Research Center (WARC), Dakar, Senegal. Joana is a Post doctoral Fellow of the African Humanities Program of the American Council of Learned Societies (AHP-ACLS)

Education

She obtained her BA from the University of Ghana with a double major in Spanish and French. She earned her MA and PhD degrees in Spanish from the University of Southern California, USA. 

Research Interest

• Afrohispanic/Hispanophone Studies/Literatures
• Comparative African Literatures (Hispanophone, Francophone, Anglophone)
• Postcolonial Studies
• Feminist Theories
• Transatlantic Studies

Publications

1. Boampong, Joanna Ed. (2019). Africa and its Lusophone and Spanish-Speaking Diaspora: New Horizons of Conceptualization. Humanities (Special Edition). 8, 2.
2. Boampong, Joanna (2017). “Of journeys, returns and transnational subject formations. Reflections on the homeland/hostland dialectic in Donato Ndongo-Bidyogo’s novels”. Research in African Literatures. 48:3, 87-97.
3. Dzahene-Quarshie, Josephine, Ildiko Csajbok-Twerefou and Joanna Boampong Eds. (2015) Journeys through the Modern Languages at the University of Ghana: Looking back, looking forward and ensuring the future. London: Ayebia Clarke.
4. Boampong Joanna (2015). “La miliciana Ada y la dinámica de poder en la literatura africana hispanófona. EPOS, XXXI, 61-70.
5. Boampong, Joanna. (2015). “The dynamics of the political in Hispanophone literature.” Dzahene-Quarshie et al (Eds). Journeys through the Modern Languages at the University of Ghana: Looking back, looking forward and ensuring the future. London: Ayebia Clarke, 72-82.
6. Boampong, Joanna (2014). "La presencia del español en Ghana"La enseñanza del español en África Subsahariana. Serrano Avilés, J. (ed.). Madrid: Embajada de España en Kenia, AECID, Instituto Cervantes, Casa África y Los Libros de la Catarata, 287-309.
7. Boampong, Joanna (2013). “The burning question of identity: Hispanophone perspectives on an enduring debate.”African and African Diaspora Literature in Spanish and Portuguese. Clément Akassi, (ed.) Spec. Issue of The Zora Neale Huston Forum. Vol. XXV: 70-78.
8. Lauer, Helen, Nana Aba Amfo, and Joanna Boampong (2013). (eds.) The one in the many: nation building through cultural diversity. Accra: Sub-Saharan Press.
9. Boampong, Joanna (2012).“Reconfigurations of the female protagonist in Hispanophone African  literature.”  In and out of Africa: Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Latin-American connections. Joanna Boampong (ed). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 96-109.
10. Boampong, Joanna (2012). In and out of Africa: Exploring Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Latin-American connections.(ed). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 96-109.
11. Boampong, Joanna (2011).“Contesting the religious civilizing mission of empire in Hispanophone literature.” Matatu- Journal for African Culture and Society, Spheres Public and Private. Western Genres in African Literature. Gordon Collier (ed) 39.1, 455-490.
12. Boampong, Joanna (2011). “Identity crises: Constructions of national identity in the poetry of Equatorial Guinea.” Identity meets nationality: Voices from the humanities.  Lauer, Helen, Nana Aba Amfo and Jemima Anderson (eds). Accra: Sub-Saharan Press, 190-201.