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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages,Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics |
| Keywords | Digital Discourse Studies, Political Discourse, Corpus Linguistics, Digital Humanities, New Media and Society |
| Honours and awards | 2021: Volkswagen Foundation's Grant to Organise the 3rd Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities 2019: Grantee, Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFund), Nigeria for Research in Digital Political Discourse(August 2019-April 2022) 2019: Humboldt Foundation's Research Equipment Award to Establish the Centre for Digital Humanities, University of Lagos, Nigeria 2018: Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Education’s Letter of Commendation for Presenting High Quality Professorial Inaugural Lecture with National Relevance. February, 2018: Volkswagen Foundation's Grant to Organise the 2nd Lagos Summer School in Digital Humanities 2017: Humboldt Foundation's Grant to Organise the 1st Lagos Humboldt Kolleg in Digital Humanities 2017: Visiting Research Fellowship of the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, United Kingdom 2016: DAAD Scholarship for 7th European University in Digital Humanities, University of Leipzig, Germany 2014: Georg Forster Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Germany 2010: Commonwealth Professional Fellowship, Westminster University, London 1995: 3 Lever Brothers Nig. Plc. Prizes for the Overall Best Graduating M. A. (English) Student, University of Lagos 1991: University of Lagos Scholarship Award for Best (B.A English) Student |
Current contact address
| Country | Germany |
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| City | Berlin |
| Institution | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
| Institute | Institut für Romanistik |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Josef Schmied | Institut Anglistik / Amerikanistik, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz |
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| Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs | Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (IAA), Universität Hamburg (UHH), Hamburg |
| Prof. Dr. Miriam Bouzouita | Institut für Romanistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin |
| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/03/2014 |
Programme(s)
| 2013 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2018 | Tunde Opeibi: Gaining Political Capital through Social Media: A Study of Akinwunmi Ambode´s Twitter Campaigns during the 2015 Elections in Nigeria. In: Tunde Opeibi, Josef Schmied, Research in English an Applied Linguistics REAL Studies 13. Cuvillier Verlag, 2018. 1-29 |
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| 2018 | Tunde Opeibi, Ayodeji Adedara: Nigerian Democracy and Political Discourse: A Socio-historical Perspective. In: Tunde Opeibi, Josef Schmied, Research in English and Applied Linguistics REAL Studies 13. Cuvillier Verlag, 2018. 173-190 |
| 2016 | Prof. Dr. Rotimi Taiwo & Prof. Dr. Tunde Olusola Opeibi: Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the Developing World. Nova Publishers, 2016 |
| 2015 | Tunde Opeibi, Josef Schmied, Tope Omoniyi, Kofo Adedeji: Essays on Language in Societal Transformation: A Festschrift in Honour of Segun Awonusi. Cuvillier, 2015 |