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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | English Language (Linguistics) |
| Keywords | Resistance discourse, Corpus linguistics, Online discourse, Terrorist rhetoric, Insecurity in Nigeria |
| Honours and awards | 2024: Return Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Germany 2022: Georg Forster Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Germany 2021: THE 2020 TETFUND RESEARCH GRANT under the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Research Category of the National Research Fund (NRF) (Group – with Prof. Bolanle Idowu Akeredolu-Ale, Dr Emmanuel Chinaguh, three medical personnel and two ICT specialists) 2020: Grantee, Remote-mentorship, African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Department of Linguistics, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 2019: Grantee, The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for Young Researcher in the Scientific Relations (with Prof. Akin Odebunmi) for a 5-month stay at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg from October 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020 (Postponed to 2023 due to COVID-19 and others; eventually DECLINED) 2017: Grantee, Manuscript Development Workshop, African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Accra, Ghana. 2015: Post-doctoral Fellow, African Humanities Program of the American Council of Learned Society 2001: Best Graduating Student Prize, Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University. Ile-Ife 2001: Best Graduating Student Prize, School of Languages, Obafemi Awolowo University. Ile-Ife |
Current contact address
| Country | Nigeria |
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| City | Ibadan |
| Institution | University of Ibadan |
| Institute | Department of English |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Anne Barron | Institute of English Studies (IES), Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/10/2022 |
Programme(s)
| 2022 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2026 | Ayo Osisanwo: Nigeria Bleeds: A Multimodal CDA of Images on Social Media Resistance Discourse Against Insecurity in Nigeria. . In: Visual Communication Quarterly, 33, 2026, 3-17 |
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| 2026 | Ayo Osisanwo: Self-legitimation strategies in selected messages of Boko Haram terrorists. In: Critical Discourse Studies, 23, 2026, 20-37 |
| 2025 | Ayo Osisanwo: Discourse of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ in Newspaper Editorials on Insecurity in Nigeria. In: Journal of Asian and African Studies, 60, 2025, 4001-4021 |
| 2025 | Ayo Osisanwo: Insecurity and safety complications in Nigeria: a corpus-assisted critical discourse study of human security threat in Nigerian newspaper reports . In: Corpus Pragmatics, 9, 2025, 167-198 |
| 2025 | Ayo Osisanwo: Manipulative and Recruitment Strategies in Boko Haram Terrorist Statements. In: Journal of Asian and African Studies, 60, 2025, 3303-3318 |
| 2024 | Ayo Osisanwo: Delegitimating other in selected messages of Boko Haram terrorists. In: Critical Terrorism Studies, 18, 2024, 162-180 |
| 2024 | Ayo Osisanwo: Gunmen, Bandits and Ransom Demanders: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Study of Construction of Abduction in Nigerian Press. In: Corpus-based Studies across Humanities, 2, 2024, 135–156 |