Oluwole Coker

Dr. Coker is an Associate Professor in the Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, and currently a Georg Forster Experienced Reseacher Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik ,Universität Potsdam, Germany. He was, between 2019 -2020, a  Carnegie Future Africa Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English, University of Pretoria, South Africa. His interests lie in postcolonial African fiction, orature and interdisciplinary studies. He is co-editor of Existentialism, Literature and the Humanities in Africa: Essays in Honour of Professor Benedict Mobayode Ibitokun (Cuvillier Verlag, 2013) and Emerging Perspectives on the Twenty-first Century Nigerian Novel. ( Venda Verlag, 2017). Dr. Coker is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies/African Humanities Program (ACLS/AHP:2014); Laureate of Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Child and Youth Institute, (2015) ; Fellow of the Summer Program in Social Sciences, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. (2015-2017) and Fellow of the Brown International Advanced Research Institute, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA. (BIARI, 2017).