Rebecca Adusei is a PhD student at King's College London. Her project locates and analyses depictions and characterisations of Sub-Saharan Africans in Early Modern literature and drama. Trained in Literary Studies, Rebecca's research has become increasingly interdisciplinary. Drawing together Literary Studies and History, she looks at Black individuals in the Early modern archives and scrutinises their characterisations in literature.

Rebecca has spoken at the London Shakespeare Centre and the Shakespeare's Globe's Home and Early Modernity Conference. She was also one of the co-founders of the Reflecting on Habib’s Black Lives in the English Archives: An Online Symposium a symposium that called for scholars from all disciplines to discuss the lives of Black people in early modern Britain. In 2021/2022, she was awarded the SRS Scholars of Colour Bursary for her work in Early Modern Studies.