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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies,African Studies |
| Keywords | Literary Studies and African Diasporic Literatures, Digital Humanities, Proverbs, Postproverbials, Yoruba |
| Honours and awards | 2022: Grantee, BCGE (Berlin Center for Global Engagement) Scholarship, under Berlin University Alliance 2020: Winner, European Commission's Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching Award, University of Osijek, Croatia (activated in May, 2022) 2019: Fellow, Association of Nigerian Authors. 2018: Winner, Humboldt Talent Travel Award, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany 2017: Winner, Alexander von Humboldt Alumni Prize for Innovative Networking Initiatives. |
Current contact address
| Country | Nigeria |
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| City | Ibadan |
| Institution | University of Ibadan |
| Institute | Department of English |
| Homepage | www.remiraji-nigeria.com |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Flora Veit-Wild | Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
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| Prof. Dr. Susanne Gehrmann | Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
| Prof. Dr. Aderemi Raji-Oyelade | Department of English, University of Ibadan, Ibadan |
| Prof. Dr. Sylvere Mbondobari | UFR Humanites, Universite Bordeaux Montaigne, Pessac |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/03/2006 |
Program(s)
| 2005 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2023 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Of anti-proverbs and postproverbials: Reflections on terms in transgressive paremiology. In: Hrisztalina Hrisztova-Gotthardt, Melita Aleksa Varga & Wolfgang Mieder, Diligence brings delight: A Festschrift in honour of Anna T. Litovkina. Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, 2023. 197-205 |
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| 2022 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: COVID-19 (Post)proverbials: Twisting the word against the virus. In: Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, 39, 2022, 224-244 |
| 2022 | Raji, Remi; Okunoye, Niyi; Alexander, Josephine; Himmelman, Natasha; Omoyele, Idowu & Kona, Bongani (editors): Chants, Dreams and Other Grammars of Love: A Gedenkschrift for Harry Garuba. Kraftbooks, Ibadan, 2022 |
| 2022 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Postproverbials as Archetypes of Modernity in Yoruba Culture. Kraftbooks, Ibadan 2022 |
| 2021 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Innovate or Perish: AfriCANs and AfriCANTs Beyond the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In: Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies, 31, 2021, 11-25 |
| 2020 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Of boundaries, Borders and the (In)scription of the Invisible.. In: Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria, 12, 2020, 31-43 |
| 2019 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi & Ango, Zainab 'Five and five does not make ten…': Perspectives on Fulbe Postproverbials. In: Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 51, 2019, 406-416 |
| 2019 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi and Oyeleye, Olayinka: Introduction: The Postproverbial Agency: Texts, Media and Mediation in African Cultures. In: Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society, 51, 2019, 229-240 |
| 2015 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Contesting Identities: The Challenge of the African Renaissance. In: Postgraduate School Multidisciplinary Lectures, 2015, 87-110 |
| 2013 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Fluent In(ter)ventions: Webs of the Literary Discipline. University of Ibadan Press, 2013 |
| 2012 | Aderemi Raji-Oyelade: Playful Blasphemies - Postproverbials as Archetypes of Modernity in Yoruba Culture. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 2012 |
| 2012 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Reflections on the Nigerian Literary Imaginary in the Digital Age. In: Journal of the Literary Society of Nigeria, 4, 2012, 13-20 |
| 2008 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Classifying the Unclassified: The Challenge of Postproverbiality in International Proverb Scholarship. In: Soares, JB Rui, & Lauhakangas, Outi, Actas ICP 2007 Proceedings. Tipografia Tavirense, Tavira, 2008. 146-155 |
| 2008 | Remi Raji-Oyelade and Sola Olorunyomi: Duro Ladipo: Thunder-God on Stage. IFANET & Institute of African Studies, 2008 |
| 2008 | Aderemi Raji-Oyelade: Notes toward the Bibliography of Nigerian Women's Poetry (1985-2006). In: Research in African Literatures, 2008, 198-202 |
| 2008 | Aderemi Raji-Oyelade and Oyeniyi Okunoye, Eds.: The Postcolonial Lamp: Essays in Honour of Dan Izevbaye. Bookcraft, 2008 |
| 2007 | Gehrmann, Susanne & Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi Africa and the Weltverkehr of Tongues, Books, and Scholars. In: Lisa Block De Behar, Paola Mildonian, Jean-Michel Djian, Djelal Kadir, Marcio Seligmann-Silva, Alfons Knauth, Dolores Romero Lopez, Comparative Literature: Sharing Knowledges for Preserving Cultural Diversity; In Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO. EOLSS Publishers, 2007. online-[http://www.eolss.net] |
| 2007 | Remi Raji: Drumming a continent and its dreams: a selection of African writings. In: Drumvoices Revue, 2007, 74-120 |
| 2007 | Aderemi Raji-Oyelade: Perplexing mis-turns: a commentary. In: Wasafiri, 2007, 86-87 |
| 2006 | Aderemi Raji-Oyelade: 'Representational Exposures: The Album of Nigerian Women's Poetry (1985-2006)'. In: Christine Matzke Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, and Geoffrey V. Davis, Of Minstrelsy and Masks: The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing.. Rodopi, 2006. 293-316 |
| 2006 | Christine Matzke Aderemi Raji-Oyelade, and Geoffrey V. Davis: Of Minstrelsy and Masks: The Legacy of Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Nigerian Writing (Matatu Series no. 33). Rodopi, 2006 |
| 2006 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: The Virtuous Imagination of a Female Voice in Recent Nigerian Poetry: A Reading of Mujidah Aleem’s "Another Story" . In: SemiCerchio: Rivista di Poesia Comparata (Journal of Comparative Literature), 35, 2006, 109-110 |
| 2005 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Ibadan and the Memory of a Generation: From the Poetry Club to the Premier Circle. In: English in Africa, 32, 2005, 21-35 |
| 2004 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Posting the African Proverb: A Grammar of Yoruba Postproverbials, or Logophagia, Logorrhea and the Grammar of Yoruba Postproverbials. In: Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, 21, 2004, 299-314 |
| 2001 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: “On African Proverbs.”. In: Proverbium: Yearbook of International Proverb Scholarship, 18, 2001, 385-387 |
| 2000 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Character Theory in the Black Novel. In: Asha Viswas, The Black Novel. New Delhi: Bahri Publications, New Delhi, 2000. 29-40 |
| 1999 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Postproverbials in Yoruba Culture: A Playful Blasphemy. In: Research in African Literatures, 30, 1999, 74-82 |
| 1998 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: Achebe and Conrad: The Post (Colonial) Response. In: Adebayo, Aduke & Segun Odunuga, Literature, Ideology and Society: Festschrift In Honour of Abiola Irele. AMD Publishers, Ibadan, 1998. 275-286 |
| 1997 | Raji-Oyelade, Aderemi: The Comparatist Choice: Critical Essays on the Novel in Francophone Africa. In: Presence Africaine, 156, 1997, 249-253 |