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Yohanna Joseph Waliya

Lecturer|Researcher|Digital Poet|Distant Writer|Intermediate Python programmer| - Modern Languages and Translation Studies at University of Calabar | Calabar , Nigeria

Subjects:
Creative Arts and Design, Linguistics, Literature
Spoken languages:
English, French
Status:
Looking for a mentor and open to collaboration.
Support Level:
Editing Support, Long-term mentoring and support, Short-term mentoring and support

Work

Subjects:
Creative Arts and Design, Linguistics, Literature
Research Keywords:
Twitterature, Twitterbot poetry, electronic literature, African Electronic Literature, language discourse, Francophone literature, Digital Humanities
Collaboration interests:
Electronic Literature, Digital Humanities, African Electronic Literature
Biography:
Yohanna Joseph Waliya is a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, ludokinetic writer, novelist, playwright, python programmer, winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020, Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow, UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow, Creator & Curator of MAELD and ADELD [2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award: Honourable Mention, C-SKI], Executive Director of AELA& ADELI (https://africanelit.org ), International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and Social Media [ICWSM ] Scholar 2021-2022, Scrimba Scholar 2022-2023, and Hastac Scholar 2021-2023. He writes in English and French. Among his works are : La récolte de vie (play), Monde 2.0 (play), Hégémonie Disparue (novel), Quand l’Afrique se lèvera (novel), Homosalus (digital poetry), Momenta (digital poetry), @TinyKorczak (Twitterbot-poetry), Climatophosis (digital poetry: The best use of DH for Fun 2020), Inferno 2.0 (ludokinetic poetry) etc. He is also lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages and Translation Studies, University of Calabar as well as a postgraduate student at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. His research interests cover Distant Writing, Distant Reading, Digital Poetry, Metaversal Literature, Twitterbot-poetry , Twitterature, Digital Humanities, Language Discourse etc.

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