January to March 2022 – Stanford, USA [Funded by a 2021 SSHRC Michael Smith Award]

• Will conduct research under the supervision of Professor Mark Algee-Hewitt, director of the Stanford Literary Lab at Stanford University. 
• Will participate in the ‘Literature/Littérature’: history of a word project, in collaboration with the Sorbonne (Paris), the Max Planck Institute (Frankfurt), and Loyola University (New Orleans).
• Will conduct my own resarch. Drawing upon distributional semantics and lexicographical research, it assumes that the meaning of the word “book” is tied to the words that surround it within the literary ecosystem of a novel and/or novels. This distributional approach will  allow me to understand the significance of the word “book” in a relational way with respect to a textual context (the words co-located with “book”), a social and historical context (contemporary Africa, the Caribbean, and their diasporas), and several methods (text mining, word frequency lists, corpus collocates and correlations, word frequency trends, and topic modeling).

October 2018 – Cape Town, South Africa [Funded by a 2018 Andrew W. Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, Jackman Humanities Institute]

• Conducted research at the University of the Western Cape’s Centre for Humanities Research (2 weeks).
• Attended weekly seminars, including seminars on the technologies of colonial episteme, the axiology of imperial discourse, and sovereignty and ascendancy in the postcolonial era. 
• Participated in the migrating violence reading,whose focus was on settler colonialism.
• Attended a one-day workshop on the ‘subject races’.
• Met with well-known scholars, such as Jean-Pierre Cornille and Francis Nyamnjoh (University of Cape Town).

July 2017 – Fort-de-France, La Martinique (France) [Funded by the Department of French Studies, University of Toronto]

• Conducted research at the University of the French West Indies, the Schoelcher library and local museums on Patrick Chamoiseau and Caribbean literature as part of my doctoral research.