Nana Yaa Gyamfi is originally from Ghana and is currently pursuing a PhD in French and Francophone Studies at The Ohio State University. She earned her Master of Arts in French from Mississippi State University in 2026, graduating with a 4.0 GPA and was honored as an Outstanding Graduate Student in both the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures and the College of Arts and Sciences. She was also selected as a Summer Scholar with the Institute for the Humanities in 2025 and was a 1st Runner-Up in the Spring 2025 Graduate Research Symposium.

Her research interests encompass language, politics, culture, and identity across the Francophone world, with a particular focus on Pan-Africanism and the role of the French language in shaping political thought and discourse. She is also interested in Francophone cinema, theatre, ecology, and carceral studies, particularly the representation of crime and incarceration in Francophone literary and cinematic traditions. Her interdisciplinary perspective is further informed by her background in Political Science and graduate coursework in public policy, administrative law, and organizational theory.

Her scholarly work has also been presented at academic conferences, including the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Conference in Spokane, Washington, where she presented research examining trauma and existentialism in Francophone literature.As a Graduate Teaching Associate in French at Ohio State, she is dedicated to creating a classroom where students feel genuinely engaged and excited about learning French.