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Bimbola Akinbola is a Chicago-based artist and scholar working at the intersection of African diaspora studies, performance, visual culture, and postcolonial theory. Her scholarly work addresses themes of kinship, belonging, gender performance, and affect within the African diaspora. Dr. Akinbola is currently developing a book manuscript that examines the concept of disbelonging in the diasporic homemaking of contemporary Nigerian diasporic women artists. Her essays have been published in Text Performance Quarterly and Women Studies Quarterly. In addition to her scholarly pursuits, she is a practicing visual performance artist whose work has been exhibited at venues such as the Center on Halsted, Riverside Arts Center, Compound Yellow, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She received her PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park in 2018, and was a Black Performing Arts Post-Doctoral Fellow at Northwestern University from 2018 to 2020.
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