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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Applied Linguistics, Computer Linguistics,African Studies,Theatre and Media Studies |
| Keywords | Interdisciplinary and Applied Linguistics, African urban and youth languages, Africanity, language, literature and film, Language & Gender Relations/Sex-Gender Stylistics, Communication Skills/Contrastive Rhetoric |
| Honours and awards | 2020: George Forster (Return) Fellowship 2019: The University of Edinburgh (Catalyst) Fellowship 2017: Alexander von Humboldt (Return) Fellowship 2006: Nordic Africa Institute Research Fellowship 2004: George Forster Fellowship 1995: Cambridge Writers'Seminar Fellowship 1990: British Council Overseas Development Agency Scholarship |
Current contact address
| Country | Nigeria |
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| City | Ilorin |
| Institution | University of Ilorin |
| Institute | Faculty of Arts |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Eckhard Breitinger | Institut für Afrika-Studien (IAS), Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth |
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| Prof. Dr. Cecile Sandten | Institut Anglistik / Amerikanistik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz |
| Prof. Dr. Josef Schmied | Institut Anglistik / Amerikanistik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/11/2004 |
Programme(s)
| 2003 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2023 | Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju: Gendered Dichotomies in African Youth Language and Language Practices. Ibidem, 2023 |
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| 2022 | Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Bert van Pinxteren and Josef Schmied: Language of Education and Empowerment in Africa: Prospects for Decolonisation and Empowerment. Cuvillier, 2022 |
| 2019 | Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju: 'Hidden in Plain Sight': Indigenous African Languages as Urban and Youth Languages: Urban Hausa, Urban Igbo and Urban Yoruba in Nigeria. In: Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Josef Schmied, African Urban and Youth Languages: The Rural-Urban Divide. Cuvillier Verlag, 2019. 7-34 |
| 2019 | Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju and Josef Schmied: African Urban and Youth Languages: The Rural-Urban Divide. Cuvillier, 2019 |
| 2019 | Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Josef Schmied: Imperative of Indigenous African Grammar and Rhetoric Perspectives in African Urban and Youth Scholarship. In: Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Josef Schmied, African Urban and Youth Languages: The Rural-Urban Divide. Cuvillier Verlag, 2019. 1-6 |
| 2019 | Josef Schmied, Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju, Demola Jolayemi Pragmatics, Linguistics, Language and Literature: Essays in Honour of E.E. Adegbija. Cuvillier, 2019 |