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Dr. Akinwole’s teaching and research intersect African literatures, African screen media, cultural critical theory, global Black literatures, urban studies, infrastructure studies, and Black geographies. As an associate editor for Africanwriter.com, an online magazine focusing on contemporary African and African diaspora literatures, he curates a series of interventions pertaining to these cultures. He also manages an online repository of African political cartooning at africacartoons.com. Prior to joining UBC, he obtained a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Lagos, followed by master's degrees in English Language Linguistics, African Cultural Studies, and Literary Studies from the University of Lagos and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he also earned his doctoral degree in Literary Studies. His current book project, 'Moving Parts: Automobile Aesthetics in Postcolonial Africa,' examines cultural expressions of spatial anxieties and literary artistic representations of public bus systems in African cities, tracking how these archives of literary, artistic, musical, and filmic texts formed around public transportation can reshape current understandings of the global Black city.
University of British Columbia • Vancouver, BC, Canada
Teach courses and conduct research in African literatures and related fields.
Offers course-only and thesis routes. Focus areas include philosophy of science, mind, ethics, and Asian philosophy.