Dr. Elias Adanu

Elias Adanu is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies with research interests in digital, visual, and diaspora rhetorics. At these intersections, he explores how contemporary Africans on and off the continent experiment with, and perform Africa in digital and visual spaces. He is also interested in how global ideas about Africa interact with contemporary trends in African modernity. Furthermore, his digital rhetorics research interrogates how technologies developed in the west are translated and localized in nonwestern spaces, while his visual rhetorics research explores how iconic and vernacular photography shapes public culture and national identity.

He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Rhetoric and Technology, Visual Rhetoric, Persuasion and Argument, and Technical Writing.