Samuel Ato Bentum
- Graduate Student, PhD Literature (Race Poetics Empire)
Samuel Ato Bentum is in the PhD in Literature (Race, Poetics, Empire) program at the University of Pittsburgh, PA, where he is on the Arts and Sciences Graduate Fellowship. Before that, he earned both a Bachelor’s degree and a Master of Philosophy degree in Linguistics and Literature-in-English, respectively, from the University of Cape Coast. His MPhil thesis was on the intersection between African and African American poetics. His primary research interests are postcolonial studies, (anti)slavery discourses, twentieth-century African American studies, and critical theories. In the future, his research focus will expand to Caribbean studies as well. He writes and publishes poems under the pseudonym Nenyi Ato Bentum in his free time.
Focus texts: Pop culture; the novel; archival materials; mundane materials/practices
