Senayon Olaoluwa
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Senayon Olaoluwa is a professor of diaspora and transnational studies at the University of Ibadan’s Institute of African Studies. His scholarly interests are at the intersection of migration, diaspora and transnational studies; postcolonial literature; and environmentalism and ecological studies. He is the initiator and pioneer coordinator of the Ibadan School of Diaspora Studies.[1]
Education and career[edit]
Olaoluwa earned his bachelor’s degree in English at the Ogun State University (now Olabisi Onabanjo University), Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria in 1997. After which he obtained his masters in the same field at the University of Ibadan six years later. He then moved to South Africa where he received his doctorate degree in African Literature at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in 2009.[2] His Ph.D. thesis was titled: "Inscribing Dispersal: The Politics of Exile in African Poetry".[3]
Olaoluwa began his teaching career at the Osun State University, Osogbo in 2009. He joined the University of Ibadan in 2013 as a senior research fellow and pioneer coordinator of the Diaspora and Transnational Studies programme at the Institute of African Studies, where he would later be appointed as the institute's director, and ultimately confirmed as a full professor in 2023.[4][5][6]
Olaoluwa’s scholarly works have been published in various academic journals including Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, African Affairs, African Studies Review, Journal of African Cultural Studies, Journal of Borderlands Studies, Journal of Literary Studies, Journal of Film and Video, English Studies, Social Dynamics, among others.
Olaoluwa currently serves or has served as editor of several academic journals including African Studies, African Notes, African Nebula, Kritikos, and the Journal of Black Culture and International Understanding.[7][8][9] He has at different times received scholarly fellowships and grants at the Centre for Cultural Inquiry at the University of Konstanz; All Africa House Fellowship at the University of Cape Town; and the African Humanities Program Postdoctoral Fellowship of the American Council of Learned Societies, among others.[10][11] In early 2023, Olaoluwa was a visiting fellow at the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, as part of the Africa Oxford Visiting Fellowship Programme, where he worked on his ongoing book project on "Extalgia," an idea that he conceived as a antithesis to nostalgia in exile and migration studies.[1]
Selected publications[edit]
Olaoluwa, Senayon. (2023). "Extalgia: Transcending the Legible Frames of Diaspora." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 23, no. 1, 1-24.[12]
Olaoluwa, Senayon. (2021). "Beyond Backpacking: Solo "Guerrilla" Border Crossing and the Penetration of Geographies of Power in Olabisi Ajala's An African Abroad''. Journal of Borderlands Studies Vol. 36 No. 3, 487-501.[13]
Olaoluwa, Senayon (2020). "Dislocating Anthropocene: The City and Oil in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27, no. 2, 243-267.[14]
Olaoluwa, Senayon (2020). "Nationalism and Exile as Self-Inscription in Micere Mugo's My Mother's Poem and Other Songs." Research in African Literatures 51, no. 2, 149-166.[15]
Olaoluwa, S. (2018). "We All Come from Brahma": Repetition and the Anticipation of Indian Cultural Imperialism in Indian Doctor. Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 30 No. 3, 279-292.[16]
Olaoluwa, S. (2017). Uneasy Double Attachment: Homeland and Exile in Olu Oguibe’s A Gathering Fear. Journal of Literary Studies Vol. 33. No. 2, 82-108.[17]
Olaoluwa, S. (2017). "Synmemory: Civil War Victimhood and the Balance of Tales in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Habila's Measuring Time." Social Dynamics: A Journal of African Studies Vol. 43 No. 1, 19-31.
Olaoluwa, S. (2015). "Travel Gone Awry: Cosmopolitan Love and Female Ordeals in Games Women Play." Journal of Film and Video Vol. 67 No. 2, 21-34.[18]
Olaoluwa, Senayon (2012). "'There was a Time': Postcolonial Ecology and Mourning in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow." European Journal of English Studies 16, no. 2, 125-136.[19]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Dr Senayon Olaoluwa | afox". www.afox.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ "Senayon Olaoluwa". IFRA-Nigeria.
- ↑ Olaoluwa, Senayon. "Inscribing Dispersal: The Politics of Exile in African Poetry" (PDF). CORE.
- ↑ "In Conversation with Dr Senayon Olaoluwa – Acting Director of Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. – ResearchRound". 2020-08-26. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ Opinion (2019-07-24). "Superior aggression theory and the Fulani herdsmen". Punch Newspapers. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ ReportersAtLarge (2020-08-07). "UI Appoints Dr Olaoluwa As Director, IAS". Reporters At Large. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ "African Studies: Editorial Board". Taylor & Francis Online.
- ↑ "Nebula". www.nobleworld.biz. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ "Kritikos: Editorial board". intertheory.org. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ "Visiting scholars | Contact / People | Centre for Cultural Inquiry (ZKF)". www.uni-konstanz.de. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ "Samuel Senayon Olaoluwa". ACLS. Retrieved 2023-11-07.
- ↑ Olaoluwa, Senayon (2023-03-01). "Extalgia: Transcending the Legible Frames of Diaspora". Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. 23 (1): 1–24. doi:10.3138/diaspora.23.1.2023.03.27. ISSN 1044-2057.
- ↑ Olaoluwa, Senayon (2019-01-31). "Beyond Backpacking: Solo "Guerrilla" Border Crossing and the Penetration of Geographies of Power in Olabisi Ajala's An African Abroad". Journal of Borderlands Studies. 36 (3): 487–501. doi:10.1080/08865655.2019.1571431. ISSN 0886-5655.
- ↑ Olaoluwa, Senayon (2019-11-08). "Dislocating Anthropocene: The City and Oil in Helon Habila's Oil on Water". ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 27 (2): 243–267. doi:10.1093/isle/isz104. ISSN 1076-0962.
- ↑ Olaoluwa (2020). "Nationalism and Exile as Self-Inscription in Micere Mugo's My Mother's Poem and Other Songs". Research in African Literatures. 51 (2): 149. doi:10.2979/reseafrilite.51.2.09. ISSN 0034-5210.
- ↑ Olaoluwa, Senayon (2017-06-13). "'We all come from Brahma': repetition and the anticipation of Indian cultural imperialism in Indian Doctor". Journal of African Cultural Studies. 30 (3): 279–292. doi:10.1080/13696815.2017.1336078. ISSN 1369-6815.
- ↑ Olaoluwa, Senayon (2017-04-03). "Uneasy Double Attachment: Homeland and Exile in Olu Oguibe's AGathering Fear*". Journal of Literary Studies. 33 (2): 82–108. doi:10.1080/02564718.2017.1334866. ISSN 0256-4718.
- ↑ Olaoluwa, Senayon (2015-07-01). "Travel Gone Awry: Cosmopolitan Love and Female Ordeals in Games Women Play (2005)". Journal of Film and Video. 67 (2): 21–34. doi:10.5406/jfilmvideo.67.2.0021. ISSN 0742-4671.
- ↑ Olaoluwa, Senayon (2012-08-16). "'There was a Time': Postcolonial Ecology and Mourning in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow". European Journal of English Studies. 16 (2): 125–136. doi:10.1080/13825577.2012.703816. ISSN 1382-5577.
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