Prof. Dr. Oyeniyi Okunoye

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsAfrican Studies,English and American Literature
Keywordsnational literature, postcoloniality, short fiction, african poetry

Current contact address

CountryNigeria
CityIle-Ife
InstitutionObafemi Awolowo University
InstituteDepartment of English

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hilary DuffieldFachgruppe Anglistik: Englische Literaturwissenschaft und Anglophone Literaturen, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Prof. Dr. Sylvia MayerLehrstuhl Anglistik I Amerikanistik / Anglophone Literaturen und Kulturen, Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/2008

Publications (partial selection)

2011Oyeniyi Okunoye: Lanrewaju Adepọju and the Making of Modern Yoruba Poetry . In: Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, 2011, 175-203
2011Oyeniyi Okunoye: Writing Resistance: Dissidence and Visions of Healing in Nigerian Poetry of the Military Era. In: Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, 2011, 64-85
2010Oyeniyi Okunoye: Ewi, Yoruba Modernity, and the Public Space. In: Research in African Literatures, 2010, 43-64
2010Oyeniyi Okunoye: Half a Century of Reading Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. In: English Studies, 2010, 42-57
2009Oyeniyi Okunoye: Pan-Africanism and Globalized Black Identity in the Poetry of Kofi Anyidoho and Kwadwo Opoku-Agyemang. In: A Review of International English Literature, 2009, 57-79
2008Oyeniyi Okunoye: 'Alterity, Marginality and the National Question in the Poetry of the Niger Delta'. In: Cahier d'etudes africaines, 2008, 413-436
2008Oyeniyi Okunoye: 'Niyi Osundare'. In: R.Victoria Arana, The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry:1900 to the Present. Facts on File, 2008. 333-335
2008Oyeniyi Okunoye: 'Tanure Ojaide'. In: R.Victoria Arana, The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry:1900 to the Present. Facts on File, 2008. 323-325
2008Oyeniyi Okunoye: :'Kofi Anyidoho'. In: R.Victoria Arana, The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry: 1900 to the Present. Facts on File, 2008. 21-23
2008Oyeniyi Okunoye (with Aderemi Raji-Oyelade) Eds.: The Postcolonial Lamp:Essays in Honour of Dan Izevbaye. Bookcraft, 2008
2007Oyeniyi Okunoye: 'Postcoloniality, Modern African Poetry, and Counter-Discourse'. In: Matatu, 2007, 111-131
2007Oyeniyi Okunoye: The Trope of the Ancestor in Contemporary Black Poetry. In: Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora, 2007, 140-161