OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE-IFE

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1 OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE-IFE WOLE OGUNDELE: CURRICULUM VITAE A. PERSONAL DATA 1. Name: 2. Date & Place of Birth: 3. Nationality: 4. Marital Status: 5. No. ofchildren & their ages: 6. Name & Address of Spouse: 7. Name & Address ofnext of Kin: 8. Date ofprevious (first) appointment: Ogundele, Wole 1i h July, 1951: Kwara State Nigerian Married 3:24:22: 21 Mojisola S. Ogundele RECTAS, O.A.U,!le-Ife Same as 6 above 29 th November, Status on first appointment: 10. Last position held: Assistant Lecturer Professor 11. Date of last position (Appointment): 1st October, Date of confirmation of previous Appointment: 13 th December, : Date of Retirement: 14. Date of present (Contract) Appointment: 15. Present salary: scale & step: 16. Faculty: 17. Department': December 1993 February 2001 UASS 6 consolidated Arts English B. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND 1. Higher Educational Institutions attended with dates University ofibadan, Nigeria: University of Ibadan, Academic & Professional Qualifications RA. English; University ofibadan, 1974 Ph.D. English; University of Ibadan, Other Distinctions & Awards, with Dates (a) ScholarslliR~ University of Ibadan Scholarship for the Ph.D.,

2 (b) Fellowships African Studies Fellowship, Northwestern University, 1996 Copeland Fellowship, Amherst College, USA, 1998 University of Bayreuth (Germany) SFB Fellowship, 2000 (c) Grants DAAD Study Grant, Germany, 1995 DAAD Study Grant, Germany, 1999 (d) National Awards Nil (e) International Awards Nil 4. Other Distinctions 1993: Exchange Professor, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA 1994: Professor, Montclair State College, NJ, USA C. WORK EXPERIENCE 1. Work Experience outside the university system (a) NYSC: Principal & Teacher, Bane High School, Bane, Rivers State, (b) Assistant Secretary, Federal Public Service Commission, Lagos; August] 975-January Work Experience in other universities (a) Teaching Assistant, University of Ibadan, ] (b) Visiting Senior Lecturer, Ogun State University, ] (c) Associate Lecturer, University ofibadan, ]989-90, (d) Exchange Professor, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, USA, ]993 (e) Professor, Montclair State College, ]994 (f) Guest Professor, University of Bayreuth, Germany, May-Dec., 1996 (g) Visiting Professor; Amherst College, USA, Jan-June, ]998 (h) Guest Professor, University Of Bayreuth, Germany, May-Dec Work Experience at Obafemi Awolowo University Lecturer II, Lecturer I, Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer (Contract) Reader (Contract) 2003 till date 4. Courses being taught in current session Undergraduate Courses 2

3 Lit.20 1: English Literature from the Beginning to the Renaissance Lit. 202: English Literature: the Neo-Classical Period Lit. 305: Modem African Poetry Lit. 402: Studies in Poetry Lit 405: Introduction to Modern Literarv Theories Lit.410: Literature and Society Postgraduate Courses (M.A.) Lit. 610: Literature and the Mass Media Lit. 613: Modem Literary Theories 5. Graduate Supervision in the current session Abamba, Prince: Existentialism in African Literature, Ph.D. Owoeye, Durojaye: Magical Realism in Postcolonial Literature. Ph.D. Ojo, Olorunleke: Contemporary African Poetry and Cultural Materialism. Ph.D. Fasooto, Akin: The Poetics of Political Discourse in Contemporary Yoruba Video-Film. M.A. Odetola, Tola (Miss): An Exploration of Chimamanda Adichie's Narrative Rhetoric in Purple Hibiscus. M.A. Ogundipe, S.T.: Comparative Orality in Two Nigerian Poets. M.A. Sangolana, Olufemi: The Ritual Aesthetic in Seleceted Plays of Wo le Soyinka. M.A. Akinbola, Ismaila Bolade: Audience Response to Contemporary Nigerian Literature in English. M.A. 6. Previous Postgraduate supervision at OAU 1 M. Phil and 8 M.A. theses D. MEMBERSHIP Ol<~ PRo-FESSIONAL BODIES Member, African Literature Association Member, American Studies Association of Nigeria E. PUBLICATIONS Ph.D. Thesis i) Wole Ogundele 1980: The P/'ophetic, Public and Personal Voice in Modern West and South A/hcan Poetry in English Books and Monographs ii) Wole Ogundele 1985: "Love, Life and Politics in Achebe's A Man ofthe People," ffe Monographs on Literature and Criticism: Wole Ogundele contra G. G. Darah iii) Wole Ogundele 1996: Playing at Modernity: Or the Language Game in Postcolonial A/hca. Iwalewa-Haus (University of Bayreuth) Monograph Publications.J iv) Wole Ogundele (Ed.) 2001: The Monkey Is Wise. A Selection of.,.j

4 Essays by Ulli Beier. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies Series. v) Wole Ogundele 2003: Omoluabi: Ulli Beier, Yoruba Society and Culture. Bayreuth African Studies Series vi) Wole Ogundele and G.R. Adeoti (Eds.) 2003: Iba. Essays on A/i'ican Literature in Honour ojoyin Ogunba. Ile-lfe: Obafemi Awolowo University Press Ltd. Contributions to Books vii) Wole Ogundele 1993: "Nigerian Literature in the Last Two Decades," Encyclopedia ofworld Literature in the Twentieth Centwy. Ed.: Steven Serafin. NY.: Hunter College Press, 1993; pp viii) Wole Ogundele 1995: "Natio, Nation and Postcolonial Discourse: The Example of Ngugi wa Thiong'p," Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Texts and Contexts. Ed.: Charles Cantalupo. Trenton, NJ: Africa-World Press, 1995; pp ix) Wole Ogundele 2000: "Ftom Folk Opera to Soap Opera: Improvisations and Transformations in Yoruba popular Theatre," Nigerian Video Films. Ed.: Jonathan Haynes. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Centre for International Studies, pp x) Wole Ogundele 2001: "Language, Theory and Modern African Literature: Some more Questions," Meditations on Ajhcan Literature. Ed.: Dubem Okafor. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press; pp xi) Wole Ogundele 2003: "Early Yoruba Cultural Nationalism contra Nigerian Nationalist Historiography," Iba: Essays on A/hcan Literature in Honour oloyin Ogunba. Eds.: Wole Ogundele and G.R. Adeoti. ne-lie: Obafemi Awolowo University Press, pp xii) Wole Ogundele (forthcoming, 2006): "An Appraisal of the Critical Legacies of the 1980s Revolution in Nigerian Poetry in English," Essays in Honour of D.S. Izevbaye. Ed. Remi Raji. Ibadan: Ibadan University Press* xiii) "Mother's milk versus Feeding-bottle milk: Versions and Visions of the Future of the Humanities in Africa," Rethinking the Humanities in AFica. Eds.: Sola Akinrinade et al. ne-ife: Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, 2007; pp Published Essays xiv) xv) xvi) xvii) xviii) Wole Ogundele 1982: "Irony and the Grotesque in Soyinka's Madmen and Specialists," World Literature Written in English (WLWE) 1; Wole Ogundele 1983: "From the Labyrinth to the Temple: The Religious Structure of Okigbo's Poetic Experience," Okike 24; Wole Ogundele 1987: "Orpheus in the City: A Study of Black South African Poetry ofthe Seventies," Commonwealth X, 1; Wole Ogundele 1988: "The Lyric Voice ofkwesi Brew," ALl' 16; Wole Ogundele 1988: "Chance and Deterministic Irony Elechi Amadi," WLWE 11,2; the Novels of 4

5 xix) Wole Ogundele 1988: "The Exile's Progress: Dennis Brutus's Poetry in the First Phase of his Exile," Commonwealth X,l (Spring); xx) Wole Ogundele 1992: "Politics and the Pastoral Ideal in the Poetry of Dennis Brutus," Commonwealth 14,2; xxi) Wole Ogundele 1992: "Old Wines and New Bottles: Literacy and the Situation of Contemporary Yoruba Poetry," Journal of Nigerian Languages and Literatures 1; 8-22 xxii) Wole Ogundele 1992: "Criticism and the Trandition of Political Poetry in Africa: The Example of Wole Soyinka's Ogun Abibiman and lvlandela's Earth," Ufahamu XIX, 1; xxiii) Wole Ogundele 1992: "Orality versus Literacy in Mazisi Kunene's Emperor Shaka the Great," Afi'ican Literature Today (ALT) 18: 9-23 xxiv) Wole Ogundele 1994: "Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman: A Poet's Quarrel with his Culture," Research in Afi'ican Literatures (RAL) 25,1; xxv) Wole Ogundele 1999: "Western Education and Alienation in Ahica's Cultural Affairs," Ife: Journal ofthe Institute olcultural Studies 7: xxvi) Wole Ogundele 2000: "Masks of Anarchy: Ambiguity and Ambivalence in the Early Comedies of Wole Soyinka," Odu 40; 1-22 xxvii) Wole Ogundele 2001: "Before the Beginning: A Review-Essay on Niyi Osundare's The World Is an Egg: Poems," Commonwealth. Essays and Studies XXIII, 2; xxviii) Wole Ogundele 2001: "Introduction," The Monkey Is Wise... A Selection olessays by Ulli Beier. Bayreuth: Bayreuth African Studies Series: 9-15 xxix) Wole Ogundele 2002: "Devices ofinvasion: The Mythic vs. the Historical Imagination in the Postcolonial African Novel," RAL 333: xxx) Wole Ogundele 2004: "Abubakar Gimba, Footprints; Kris Obodumu, Die a Little," ALT24; Selected Published Reviews xxxi) Wole Ogundele 1999: "Wanted: Organic African Intellectuals: A Review Essay on Paul Zeleza's Manufacturing A/ham Studies and Crisis," Glendora. A journal ofafi'ica Arts and Culture 40; 49 xxxii) Wole Ogundele 1990: "Witness and Testimony: Soyinka's Mandela's Earth and Other Poems," West A/i'icLl 19 Selected Conference/Seminar Papers Wole Ogundele 1992: "Nationalism, Democracy and Literature: tr~e Vernacular Imagination in Mark Twain and Chinua Achebe," American Studies Association ofnigeria ASAN Conference, Port-Harcourt Wole Ogundele1993: Writers in search of a Nation: Nigerian Literature since the Civil War ( )," English Department, University of Wisconsin Parkside, USA Wole Ogundele 1993: "Sex and the American dream in LeRoi Jon,t!s' s Dutchnwn and Armah's Why Are We So Blest'?" ASAN Conference".:{lNN Wole Ogundele 1998: "Ambiguous Adventures: Postcolonial African Literature 5

6 and Western Education," African Studies Council of the Five Colleges, Amherst, USA Wole Ogundele 1998: "Ulli Beier among the Africanists," Copeland Fellows Seminar, Amherst College, USA Wole Ogundele 1998: "Multiculturalism, Modernity and Yoruba Popular Culture," African Literature Association (ALA) Conference, Austin, Texas. USA Wole Ogundele 2000: 'The Poor, Neglected Cousin: Nation-statism and African Language Literatures," ASNELlGASNEL Conference. Aachen/Liege Article(s) Submitted for Publication Wole Ogundele: "Wipe Your Feet On It. Yes It's kente": Armah's Anatomy Of Colonial Education In Africa." Submitted to Papers In English and Linguistics. English Department, O.A.U., Ile-Ife. Public Lecture Wole Ogundele: "Lakaaye: An Orisa for all Seasons." Public Lecture delivered at the Beginning of Ogun Festival, Ile-Oluji, July 28, 2008 Current Research ActivitiesIWork in Progress A book-length study of recent Nigerian Poetry in English Previous Service at OAU, lie-he Coordinator. Postgraduate Programme in Literature, English Department, Coordinator, Staff and Postgraduate Seminar. Literature in English Department, Member, Faculty of Arts Postgraduate and Research Committee, Current Service at OAU, lie-he Member, Faculty ofarts Seminar Committee Convener, Department ofenglish Literature Syllabus Review Committee Faculty Representative. Institute of Cultural Studies Organized, in conjunction with Institute of Cultural Studies. the visit of li11i Beier (a former Director of the Institute of African Studies), plus the exhibition of photographs at OAU and at Ul. Member LOC, Masks, Masquerades and Marionettes: Annual O.A.U Festival of Arts, May, Service outside OAU, lie-he Ph.D. External Examiner, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 1989 Ph.D. External Examiner, University of Ibadan, 1992 External Examiner, Olabisi Onabanjo University Ago-Iwoye, 2004 till date Any Other Information: None 6