Adeoti Gbemisola Aderemi
EMAIL: ayinla80@yahoo.com
PHONE: 08037061934
ADDRESS: Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES: Reading, Travelling, Music
MEMBERSHIP STATUS: Member
YEAR OF INDUCTION/ADMISSION: 2017
POST HELD: None
MEMBERSHIP OF COMMITTEE: N/A
INSTITUTIONAL AFFILIATION: Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife
SPECIALTIES: Literature
APPOINTMENTS:
Visiting Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Drama, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. 2005/2006
Dean, Faculty of Arts, 2015-2019, Director, Institute of Cultural Studies, 2011-2015
PARTICIPATION IN GRANTS AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS/PROJECTS:
Postdoctoral Fellow, African Humanities Programme 2009
Early Career Fellow, British Academy, 2008
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Editor, OAU Bulletin 2011-2015
Biography
Gbemisola Adeoti obtained his B. A. in Dramatic Arts (second Class Upper Division) and M. A. Literature in English degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, and PhD in English from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan. He was once a Reporter/Researcher with Lagos Eagle and later The News Magazine, Lagos, before joining the academia. He started as a graduate Assistant and became a Professor in 2010. His areas of teaching and research include: Dramatic Literature, Poetry, Literary History/Theory and Popular Culture. He is the author of Naked Soles (poems), Voices Offstage: Nigerian Dramatists on Drama and Politics, Aesthetics of Adaptation in Contemporary Nigerian Drama, Nigerian Video Films in Yoruba, Editor of Muse and Mimesis: Critical Perspectives on Ahmed Yerima’s Drama, African Literature and the Future and Inside African Forests: Critical Perspectives on the Novels of D. O. Fagunwa. He was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Workshop Theatre, School of English, University of Leeds, United Kingdom in 2008 and a Postdoctoral Fellow of the African Humanities Program from 2009-2010. He was the Director, Institute of Cultural Studies (2011-2015) and Dean, Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife (2015-2019).
