Education

• Ph.D., English, University of Saskatchewan (1998)
• M.A., English, University of Guelph (1993)
• M.A., English, University of Ibadan (1991)
• B.A., English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (1988)

Teaching and Research Interests

• Postcolonial Studies (especially African, African-American, and Caribbean)
• Literary Theory (especially postcolonial and feminist)
• Autobiographical Genre in Comparative Black Studies

Selected Publications

• Telling Our Stories: Continuities and Divergences in Black Autobiographies. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005.
• “I of the Valiant Stock: Yoruba Bridal Chant and the Autobiographical Genre.” Yoruba Creativity: Fiction, Language, Life and Songs. Eds. Toyin Falola and Ann Genova. Trenton: New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2005. 321-332.
• “When a Mouth Is Sweeter than Salt: Toyin Falola and the Autophylographical Genre.”Yoruba Creativity: Fiction, Language, Life and Songs. Eds. Toyin Falola and Ann Genova. Trenton: New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2005. 155-161.
• “Theorizing Blackness.”Marvels of the African World: Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections, and Identities. Ed. Niyi Afolabi. Trenton: New Jersey: African World Press, 2003. 63-81.

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