OKESOLA Saheed Omotayo

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

Office Address: 309D, Humanities Block III

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1603-493X

Academic Qualifications: PhD

Areas of Specialization: Sociolinguistics

Title of M.A. Thesis: “Multilingualism and language choice for news delivery: The case of radio stations in Rivers State, Nigeria

Title of Ph.D. Thesis: A sociolinguistic study of identity (re)construction in social media discourse

Scholarships: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation postdoctoral fellowship

Fellowships: American Council of Learned Societies/African Humanities Program Fellowship

Research Grants: Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistantship Grant

National Awards: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

International Awards: American Council of Learned Societies/African Humanities Program Fellowship

Ongoing Current Research: Linguistic diversity and the discourse of COVID-19 public health awareness campaigns in Nigeria

Publications: S.O. Okesola, & O. O. Oyebode, (2023). “The soro-soke [speak up] generation”: multimodality and appraisal choices in selected #EndSars civil protest-related memes in Nigeria. Language and Semiotic Studies, https://doi.org/10.1515/lass-2022- 0016

Staff Profile

Saheed Omotayo Okesola teaches in the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. He is a fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP) and a postdoctoral research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany. His research interests include Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Linguistic Diversity and Multilingual Studies.