OLUSEGUN-JOSEPH ayobami
Email address(es): yomiojoseph@oauife.edu.ng
Office address: Department of english, faculty of arts, obafemi awolowo university, ile-ife, osun state, nigeria.
Academic qualifications: A. (hons.) Literature-in-english; m. A. English; ph. Ph.D. English.
Areas of specialization: Postcolonial discourse; african/world literature; african urban-youth cultural studies; african gender/sexuality studies.
Title of M.A.. Thesis: The nativist’s misconception: a reading of chinweizu et. Al. ‘S toward the decolonization of african literature and ngugi wa thiongo’s decolonizing the mind.
Title of PH.D Thesis: The arabian nights and post-orientalist articulations in the north african novel.
Fellowships: African humanities program post-doctoral fellowship, funded by the american council of learned societies, usa (2013-2014).
Research grants: Carnegie grant for conference attendance (cfca), funded by the institute of international education (iie), usa (2016).
African humanities program (ahp) grant for manuscript development workshop, dar es salaam, tanzania (9-13 october), 2018.
Ongoing current research: Hegemonies, subalternities and haram: islamic extremism, masculinities and religious masks in the post-9/11 african novel
Publications:
Olusegun-joseph, yomi (2006). “nativism and the anachronistic project: a reading of the bolekaja agenda. ” t. Akachi ezeigbo and k. King aribisala (eds.), literature and national consciousness: a festschrift in honour of theo vincent. Lagos: university of lagos press.
Olusegun-joseph, yomi (2006). “indigenous languages and the postmodern turn: rap as a generational statement of dissidence. ‘ francis egbokhare and clement kolawole (eds.), globalization and the future of african languages, 255-267. Ibadan: ibadan cultural studies.
Olusegun-joseph, yomi (2006). Song motif as postcolonial resonance : tanure ojaide’s the endless song and the fate of vultures. Ibadan journal of european studies. 6: 69-84.
Olusegun-joseph, yomi (2008). “alterity and the postcolony: a reading of naguib mahfouz’s arabian nights and days.” ibadan journal of english studies. 5: 359-377.
Olusegun-joseph , yomi (2012). “discourses and disciplines: african literary criticism, north africa and the politics of exclusion. ” the journal of pan african studies. 5: 218-231.
Olusegun-joseph, yomi (2013). “a play of signifieds.: realism, literature and the politics of meaning.” c. Uwasomba, a. Mosobalaje and o. Coker (eds.), existentialism, literature and the humanities in africa. 175-181: gottingen: cuvillier verlag.
Fajobi e. O. And olusegun-joseph, yomi (2013). “language and gender in contemporary english usage. ” wale adegbite, segun adekoya and adeyemi adegoju (eds.). Use of english: a manual on communicative skills for tertiary institutions. 239-247. Ile-ife: department of english.
Staff profile:
My research focuses on african literature and its various shades of hybridity, transculturation and globality that challenge simple assumptions of its “sub-saharan” and “black” identity foregrounded in dominant africanist scholarship. My work also contributes to studies on the postmodern collaboration of contemporary nigerian urban-youth culture with digitality to forge new generational socio-cultural landscapes of identity and difference, especially with regard to hip hop culture. I also research into new expressions of sexuality and masculinity among the nigerian youth, basically driven by contemporary forces of globalization and neoliberal consumption.