College of Humanities People
Adeleke Adeeko, Humanities Distinguished Professor
Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/Department of African American and African Studies: http://aaas.osu.edu/
Center for Folklore Studies: http://cfs.osu.edu/
Office Information
570 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: adeeko.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-247-8792
Office Hours:
Tues. & Thurs., 11:30 AM to 1:15 PM, or by appointment
570 Denney Hall, 164 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210
Email: adeeko.1@osu.edu
Phone: 614-247-8792
Office Hours:
Tues. & Thurs., 11:30 AM to 1:15 PM, or by appointment
Education:
B.A., M.A. (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) Ph.D. (University of Florida)
General Background:
B.A., M.A. (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria) Ph.D. (University of Florida). My teaching and research interests are, in no particular order of importance, Yoruba Literature, literary theory, African American Literature, and Anglophone literatures of Africa, south Asia, and the Caribbean. I am the author of Proverbs, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (1998) and The Slave's Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature (2005). I guest edited a special issue of Research in African Literatures 40:4 (Winter 2009) on writing about slavery in the African diaspora. My ongoing research projects are "Animist" Poetics in African American Poetry and Praise Culture in Lagos, Nigeria.
