Yohanna Joseph Waliya

@unical.edu.ng

Lecturer, Modern Languages and Translation Studies/Faculty of Arts
University of Calabar



                                                     

https://researchid.co/yohanna.waliya

Yohanna Joseph Waliya is a lecturer and researcher at University of Calabar. He's a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, ludokinetic writer, novelist, playwright, basic 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 ( ), 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), @TinyKorczak (Twitterbot-poetry), Climatophosis (digital poetry: The best use of DH for Fun 2020), Inferno 2.0 (ludokinetic poetry) etc.

EDUCATION

2011-2014: B.A. Modern Languages, University of Calabar.

2008-2010: B.A. Religion Studies, NationsUniversity

2019-2023: M.A. French, Ahmadu Bello University

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Arts and Humanities, Literature and Literary Theory, Global and Planetary Change, Cultural Studies

3

Scopus Publications

22

Scholar Citations

3

Scholar h-index

1

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Phantasmogorical simulation theory of metaversal literature
    YJ Waliya
    The Future of Text IV 4, 112-114 2023

  • Call for Participation: AELAIWC2023
    YJ Waliya
     2023

  • Synthesis, characterization, and molecular modeling of phenylenediamine-phenylhydrazine-formaldehyde terpolymer (PPHF) as potent anti-inflammatory agent
    N Mujafarkani, V Bassey, JJ Tokono, AJ Ahamed, I Benjamin, ...
    Heliyon 9 (7) 2023

  • Twittrature : autopose, allopose et gnrations de Twitterbot littraire
    YJ Waliya
    Language, Discourse & Society 11 (1(21)), 81-100 2023

  • African Literature on MAELD and ADELD Platforms: Grafting the Buds of a Nascent E-Literature
    YJ Waliya
    Afrique(s) en Mouvement (AeM), 55-64 2023

  • Post Digital Text (PDT) in Virtual Reality (VR)
    YJ Waliya
    The Future of Text 3, 644-645 2022

  • E-literary creativity on the dark web: Covid-19 Whatsapp bot’s interactive storytelling in WhatsApperature
    YJ Waliya
    Texto Digital 18 (2), 145-160 2022

  • Ecopoiesis and econoesis of Okam's Difu
    YJ Waliya
    GNOSI: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Human Theory and Praxis 5 (2), 136-143 2022

  • O Africa Mbursa
    YJ Waliya
    Filter Insta-Zine: An Instagram collaboratory & Zine for E-Lit, https://www 2022

  • Twittrature: lecture symtrique du Twitterbot-thtre
    YJ Waliya
    Exploring Contemporary Digital Poetics, 217-244 2022

  • Post Digital Text (PDT) Reads the Readers Instead
    YJ Waliya
    The Future of Text 2, 207-209 2021

  • Multilingual African Electronic Literature Database & African Diasporic Electronic Literature Database (MAELD & ADELD)
    YJ Waliya, A Boyd
    https://africanelit.org/ 2021

  • Inferno 2.0.
    YJ Waliya
    ShufPoetry: Online Journal of Experimental Poetry 2021

  • Botification of the Twitterary Protest Poetry: @Protestitas’ Protestitas
    YJ Waliya
    Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 2020

  • Digital Activism & “Botification” of Janusz Korczak’s Concepts in “Twitterature”
    YJ Waliya
    WHAT WOULD KORCZAK DO? Reflections on Education, Well-being and Children’s 2020

  • Climates of Change: An Online Exhibition of Creative Work
    J Nelson, A Salter
    Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media, 7-7 2020

  • Climatophosis
    YJ Waliya
    The New River: A Journal of Digital Art and Literature, Internet 2020

  • Networthy Networking
    D Larsen
     2020

  • Pope Lost Hope
    YJ Waliya
    https://taper.badquar.to/5/pope_lost_hope.html 2020

  • Monde instable
    YJ Waliya
    https://taper.badquar.to/5/monde_instable.html 2020

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Synthesis, characterization, and molecular modeling of phenylenediamine-phenylhydrazine-formaldehyde terpolymer (PPHF) as potent anti-inflammatory agent
    N Mujafarkani, V Bassey, JJ Tokono, AJ Ahamed, I Benjamin, ...
    Heliyon 9 (7) 2023
    Citations: 12

  • Digital Knowledge Integration (DKI): When Transhumanism (H+) Meets Digital Humanities (DH)
    YJ Waliya
    International Journal of Pedagogy Innovation and New Technologies 7 (1), 39-49 2020
    Citations: 4

  • Digital Activism & “Botification” of Janusz Korczak’s Concepts in “Twitterature”
    YJ Waliya
    WHAT WOULD KORCZAK DO? Reflections on Education, Well-being and Children’s 2020
    Citations: 3

  • Twittrature : autopose, allopose et gnrations de Twitterbot littraire
    YJ Waliya
    Language, Discourse & Society 11 (1(21)), 81-100 2023
    Citations: 1

  • Musicolinguistics: Deciphering the Nigerian Hip-Hop Music: Cryptolect
    YJ Waliya
    Language Discourse and Society 7 (1), 43-57 2019
    Citations: 1

  • Contrastive study of the trend of metamorphosis of political activism using theatre in the twentieth and twenty-first century
    YJ Waliya
    International Journal of Pedagogy Innovation and New Technologies 4 (01), 80-86 2017
    Citations: 1

GRANT DETAILS

AWARDS & PRIZES

Scrimba scholarship 29th September 2022-29th March 2023

MAELD&ADELD: Emerging Open Scholarship Award:

Honourable Mention, Canadian-Social Knowledge Institute . 2022.

International Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference on Web and social media [ICWSM ] Scholarship . 2021-2022.

Hastac Scholarship 2021-2023.

UNESCO Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020.

UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow 2020.

Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow 2020.

Volkswagen Foundation & LSSDH Scholarship 2018.

Homboldt Colleg & LSSDH Scholarship 2017.

Prof. Margrate Okon’s Prize, University of Calabar, 2015.

Book worm of the year, LANSA, University of Calabar, 2013.

Federal Government Scholarship Ref. FSBA/FGSS/UG/13/084 2013.