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Profile
| Academic position | Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher |
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| Research fields | Theatre and Media Studies,General and Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies |
| Keywords | postcolonial failures, adaptation/appropriation, dysphoria, violence, Nigeria |
| Honours and awards | 2021: Bayreuth Academy Advanced African Studies Research Fellowship (BA) University of Bayreuth, Germany 2019: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies (CTDPS),University of Cape Town, South Africa 2018: Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowship, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland 2016: Submission Scholarship, Faculty of Graduate Research (FGR), Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 2014: Research Grant, Faculty of Graduate Research (FGR),Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 2013: Doctoral Scholarship, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand 2009: Travel Grant, “International Playwrights Workshop" Royal Court Theatre, London; British Council, Nigeria & Genesis Foundation, UK |
Current contact address
| Country | Nigeria |
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| City | Lagos |
| Institution | University of Lagos |
| Institute | Department of Creative Arts |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Peter W. Marx | Institut für Medienkultur und Theater, Universität zu Köln, Köln |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/12/2022 |
Program(s)
| 2022 | Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers |
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Publications (partial selection)
| 2021 | Lekan Balogun: “Aesthetics of Adaptation and Tradition in Peju Layiwola’s Indigo Reimagined”. In: Oloko Patrick Peju Layiwola’s Indigo Reimagined: Rethinking Adire in Yoruba Fashion and Textile Modernity. Institute of African and Diaspora Studies, Lagos, 2021. 170—93 |
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| 2021 | Lekan Balogun: “‘It’s a short distance from Sontag’: Chinyere Okafor’s New Toyi-Toyi as Militant Feminism”. In: Afolayan, Bosede Funke, Nigerian Female Dramatists: Expressions, Resistance, Agency . Routledge, 2021. 76—89 |
| 2021 | Lekan Balogun: “‘Wedlock of Rage’: Youth Restiveness in Zulu Sofola and Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan’s Drama”. In: Afolayan, Bosede Funke, Nigerian Female Dramatists: Expressions, Resistance, Agency . Routledge, 2021. 105—19 |
| 2019 | Lekan Balogun & Sesan Fasaanu: “Complexity and Politics of Naming in Yoruba Tradition: A Dramatic Exploration of Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan’s Once Upon an Elephant”. In: Genealogy, 3, 2019, 1—14 |
| 2018 | Lekan Balogun: “Mythological Recuperation and Performance as Agency for Genealogical Recuperation in Djanet Sears’s Afrika Solo”. In: Genealogy, 2, 2018, 1—16 |
| 2018 | Lekan Balogun: “Poetics of Mnemonic Strategy: The Art of Adaptation and the Spirituality of Being & Things in Tunde Kelani’s Saworoide and The Narrow Path”. In: JAFDIS: Journal of African and Diaspora Studies, 1, 2018, 53—74 |
| 2017 | Lekan Balogun: “From Performing the ‘Sundiata Form’ to Staging the Òrìsà: Djanet Sears’s search for Orírun in Harlem Duet”. In: Shakespeare en devenir/Shakespeare in Africa Project, Université de Poitiers. , 2017, |
| 2017 | Lekan Balogun: “Violence and Xenophobia in South Africa: Shakespeare, Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka, and Welcome Msomi’s uMabatha: the Zulu Macbeth”. In: Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, 10, 2017, 36— 54 |
| 2017 | Lekan Balogun: “‘Òtún we òsì, òsì we òtún’: gender, feminist mirroring, and the Yoruba concept of power and balance”. In: Journal of Gender and Power,, 7, 2017, 27—47 |
| 2015 | Lekan Balogun: 'Ele Supremacy’: Obinrin-Aesthetic in Bosede Ademilua-Afolayan’s Once Upon an Elephant”. In: Adamu Pangmeshi and Blossom N. Fondo, Rewriting Her Story: Critical Essays on the Female Subject in the Colonial and Postcolonial World. Ken Scholars Publishing, 2015. 121—52 |
| 2015 | Lekan Balogun: Moremi. Legenaire Theatre Books, 2015 |
| 2013 | Lekan Balogun: “Ajubaba: Shakespeare and Yoruba Goddess”. In: ” International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies,, 1, 2013, 8—25 |
| 2010 | Lekan Balogun: Olofin Ajaye: The Story of Lagos.. Legenaire Theatre Books, 2010 |
| 2010 | Lekan Balogun: For Heroes and Scoundrels. Legenaire Theatre Books, 2010 |
| 2010 | Lekan Balogun: Shaka. Lantern Books, 2010 |
| 2009 | Lekan Balogun: Farewell. British Council Nigeria, 2009 |
| 2008 | Lekan Balogun: Oya: Goddess of Whirlwind.. Lantern Books, 2008 |
| 2005 | Lekan Balogun: Alaafin Kanran: Fall of Tyranny. Lantern Books, 2005 |
| 2005 | Lekan Balogun: The Rejected Stone. Lantern Books, 2005 |
| 2003 | Lekan Balogun: Our Tomorrow Today. Afrocentric Books, 2003 |