Barbara Ofosu Somuah is a writer, literary translator, and PhD student in Romance Studies at Duke University on the Italian track. She studies the literary and cultural articulations of Black people’s identity formation, placemaking, and erasure in contemporary Italy.
She examines how historical legacies and contemporary embodiments of anti-Blackness in Italy are discussed and written about, especially by Black Italian women. Her research interests include Black diaspora, Black feminist studies, memory and colonial history, Black geographies, and the ethics of translation.
