- Novel
- Poetry/ Poetics
- Africa & the Caribbean
- Diaspora
- Latin America
- US
- Deconstruction
- Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Queer Theory, Trans Theory
- Linguistic Theories and Culture
- Post-colonial
- Race and Empire
- Translation
Rose (Rosie) Poku (she/her) is a joint PhD student in Comparative Literature and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is pursuing two certificates in GSWS (Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies) and CETLI (Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Innovation) as well. Rosie earned her Bachelors of Arts from Smith College in 2022, where she graduated summa cum laude as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow. Her research interests broadly lie in Black women's diasporic and transnational feminist writings and performances of the early twentieth century. Rosie engages with Afro-diasporic texts written in Spanish, English, French, and Portuguese. As a current William Fontaine Fellow at Penn, she welcomes prospective student inquiries.