Dr. Anderson is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English, University of Ghana, Legon. She holds Ph.D. and MPhil degrees in English from the University of Ghana and an MA in General Linguistics from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Dr. Anderson is currently the Director of the Pan-African Doctoral Academy (PADA). She is a Fellow, Senior Scholar, and Reviewer for the African Humanities Fellowship Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). She was a Visiting Scholar at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, a William Fulbright Fellow at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA and a Visiting Scholar at Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. She is also an African Studies Association Presidential Fellow. She serves on several Boards and Committees within and outside the University.