HUNSU Folasade Oyinola
Email address(es): fohunsu@oauife.edu.ng
Office Address: Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University
ORCID iD: 0000000328292861
Academic Qualifications: B. A (Ed), M. A. PhD
Areas of Specialization: Life Writing, Women’s Studies and African Literature
Title of M.A. Thesis: The Dynamics of Power and Aesthetics Recreation in the Works of Three Nigerian Authors
Title of Ph.D. Thesis: Towards a Theory of Otherness in African Women’s Autobiography
Scholarships: Carnegie Scholarship for Graduate Students
Fellowships:
Cadbury Fellowship, University of Birmingham, UK, Carnegie Fellowship, USA,
AHP Dissertation Fellowship,
AHP Postdoctoral Fellowship, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
Research Grants:
CODESRIA Thesis Writing Grant, ALA Travel Grant,
International Awards:
Fulbright, Study of the United States Institute on Contemporary American Literature
Ongoing Current Research:
Feminism and Nigerian Female Academics
Publications:
Hunsu, F. O. (2011a) “Zangbeto: Navigating between the Spaces of Oral Art, Communal Security and Conflict Mediation in Badagry, Nigeria”, NAI Discussion Papers Series, The Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, (Sweden).
Adewole O., Ogungbile D., Ayoola K., Hunsu F., Ogunyemi A. (2020) The Humanities and the Challenges of Development in Africa, The Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F.O. (2013a) “Creative Writing in English”, Use of English: A Manual on Communicative Skills for Tertiary Institutions, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, 417-421, (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F. O. (2007a) “Trends in Contemporary African Poetry”, Papers in English and Linguistics, 7&8: 17-28 (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F. O. (2007b) “Historic Memory in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s The Last of the Strong Ones”, Ibadan Journal of English Studies, 4&5: 183-194 (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F. O. (2011b) “Critical Directions in African Autobiography”, Marang: Journal of Language and Literature, 21: 119-134 (Botswana).
Hunsu, F. O. (2013b). “Engendering an Alternative Approach to Otherness in African Women’s Autobiography”, Life Writing, Special Issue on Women’s Lifewriting and Diaspora. 10 (2): 171-186 (United Kingdom).
Hunsu, F. O. (2013c). “Life/lines of a Nigerian Wanderer-Poet: A Study of Segun Akinlolu’s The King’s Messenger”, Okike: An African Journal of New Writing, Commemorative Edition in Honour of Founding Editor, Chinua Achebe. 50: 260-277 (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F. O. (2013d). “ ‘I am like a ball of artistic potential’: A Conversation with Segun Akinlolu”, Lagos Notes and Records, 19 (2): 111-118 (Nigeria).
Ayoola, K.A. and Hunsu, F.O. (2014a). “Predator and Prey: Islamic Feminism and the Discourse of Female-Authored Novels in Northern Nigeria”, The African Symposium, 14: 75-85 (USA).
Hunsu, F. O and Ogundipe, S. O. (2014b). “Afrocentricism and Postgraduate Literary Studies in Africa”, Papers in English and Linguistics, 15: 144-155 (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F. O. (2014c). “ ‘Men have been there for too long, let’s have some space’: Hilda Twongyeirwe Rutagonya on Femrite and Literary Activism in Uganda”, Journal of Social Science for Policy Implications, http://aripd.org/journal/index/jsspi/vol-2-no-2-june-2014-abstract-15-jsspi 2 (2): 283-293 (USA).
Hunsu, F.O. (2014d). “Autobiography and the Fictionalization of Africa in the Twenty-First Century: Abdul Razak Gurnah’s Art in Desertion”, Brno Studies in English 40 (2): 77-89 (Czech Republic).
Hunsu, F. O. (2015a). “Literary Activism and Women’s Literature in Uganda: The Example of Goretti Kyomuhendo’s Writing”, JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, Special Issue on Women’s Movements in Africa and African Diaspora 13: 64-80 (USA).
Hunsu, F.O. (2015b). “Redefining Otherness: Writing Fictional Autobiography and Centring Female Subjectivity in Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s Children of the Eagle”, Tydskrif Vir Letterkunde, 52 (1): 168-178 (South Africa).
Hunsu, F.O. (2016a). “Literary Creativity in Hilda Ogbe’s The Crumbs Off the Wife’s Table”, Ibadan Journal of English Studies, 12: 240-252 (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F.O. (2017a). “The Future of African Women’s Autobiography”, a/b: Autobiography Studies, 32 (7): 319-322 (USA).
Hunsu, F.O. (2017b). “The Dynamics of Survival and Motherhood in Calixthe Beyala’s Your Name Shall Be Tanga”, AKSU Journal of English, 1&2: 57-67 (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F.O. (2018a). “Vocality in Nawal El Saadawi’s “A Daughter of Isis: An Autobiography”, Lapai Journal in Humanities, 5 (1): 108-125 (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F.O. (2018b). “Reading Autobiographical Subjectivity as Personal History in Biodun Jeyifo’s Scholarship”, Journal of Studies in Humanities, 8&9: 66-71 (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F.O. (2020). “Taboos and their Subversion: Reconceptualizing the Proper African Woman in Oluremi Obasanjo’s Bitter-Sweet: My Life with Obasanjo”, 35 (3): 579-598 (USA).
Oripeloye, H. and Hunsu, F.O. (2021b). “Personal Citation, Rhetorical Practice and the Reinvention of Oriki Tradition”, Advances in Literary Study, 9: 159-172. https://doi.org/10.4236/als.2021.94018 (China)
Hunsu, F.O. (2016b). “Review of Mary Kolawole’s Perspectives on African Studies: A Multidisciplinary Approach” Ife Journal of Languages and Literatures, 2 (1): 240-242 (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F.O. (2021a). Book Review “Toyin Falola, 2019. In Praise of Greatness: The Poetics of African Adulation”, African Studies Quarterly, 20 (1): 134-135 (USA).
Abimbola, R.O., Awoyelu, I.O. and Hunsu, F.O. (2019). “A Conceptual Model for Graph-Based Keyphrase Extraction in Documents”, 13th International Multi-Conference on ICT Applications AICTTRA 2019, Volume XII: 119-128, African Centre of Excellence, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. (Nigeria)
Hunsu, F.O. and Oladiran, D. P. (2021d). “African Feminist Tradition and Polygyny in Seffi Atta’s “Everything Good Will Come”, Kebbi Journal of Language and Literature, 2 (2), (Nigeria).
Hunsu, F.O. “Women’s Studies in Nigeria: A Critical Perspective” in Transformations Africana Studies: History, Theory and Epistemology, ed. Adebayo Oyelade