COKER Oluwole Micheal

Email address(es): ocoker@oauife.edu.ng

Office Address: HB 3

Academic Qualifications: B.A Literature in English (Ife); M.A .English Literature (Lagos) ; Ph.D English (Literature) (Ibadan )

Areas of Specialization: Postcolonial African Literature, Orature and Interdisciplinary Humanities

Title of M.A. Thesis: Dynamics of Mythic Representations in African Fiction

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Post-Independence Engagement Paradigms in Selected Third-generation Nigerian Novels

Scholarships:

Full Undergraduate Scholarship, Ogun State Government (1997)

World Social Science Fellowship, Fukuoka, Japan, 2017

Fellowships:

Georg Forster Experienced Researcher Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2022)

Carnegie ECRLF Fellowship ,Future Africa, University of Pretoria, 2019.

CODESRIA Laureate Fellowship, Child and Youth Institute, Dakar ,Senegal (2015)

SPSS Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Study Princeton, NJ. USA. (2015)

BIARI Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018)

AHP Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015)

National Awards:

TETFUND Travel Award (2019)

International Awards:

Carnegie Conference Travel Grant (2018)

Ongoing Current Research:

Towards a Theory of Nigeria Diaspora Science Fiction

Publications:

Texts and Contexts of Migration in Africa and Beyond. Austin, Texts, Pan Africa University Press, 2021. (with Adebusuyi Adeniran)

Emerging Perspectives on the Twentieth Century Nigeria Novel. Glienicke, Galda Verlag 2017.(with Chijioke Uwasomba and Kayode Atilade)