Dr. Joel Akinwumi
Biography
Joel Akinwumi teaches African World Literatures in the Department of World Languages and Literatures and the Department of French. His current research focuses on the depiction of historical forgetting in six postcolonial African and Caribbean novels. His latest articles appeared in Nouvelles Etudes Francophones and Alternative francophone. He received his Ph.D. from UBC, where he has worked as a research assistant on various projects and taught courses ranging from elementary to advanced levels of French. He has also taught at Corpus Christi College (Vancouver). He is the winner of the 2021 Fran莽ois-Par茅 Award for the best paper presented by an emerging scholar at the international conference organized by APLAQA (Association des Professeur.e.s des litt茅ratures acadienne et qu茅b茅coise de l鈥橝tlantique).
EDUCATION
- Ph.D (French Studies), University of British Columbia
- M.A. (French Studies), University of Ibadan
- B.A. (French & Education), Obafemi Awolowo University (ACE)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- African and Caribbean Literatures
- Postcolonial Discourse
- Memory Studies
- Migration Studies
- Women Studies and African Feminism
- Translation and Interpretation
Selected Publications
- 鈥淟a postcolonie, la r茅sistance et la subjectivit茅 dans Mort d鈥橭luw茅mi d鈥橝jumako et Dieu nous l鈥檃 donn茅 de Maryse Cond茅.鈥� Alternative Francophone 2. 10 (2022) : 79-88.
- "La m茅moire et la revendication f茅ministe : La saison de l'ombre de L茅onora Miano." Nouvelles 脡tudes Francophones 35.1 (2020) : 188-201.
- With Ramonu Sanusi. 鈥�Une saison au Congo ou la trag茅die des nations africaines.鈥� Ife Journal of Foreign Languages 9 (2016) : 22-30.
- With Pooja Booluck-Miller. 鈥淟e trauma d鈥檃utrui et sa narration : Les voyages de Merry Sisal de Gis猫le Pineau鈥�. Voix et Images, Francophonies d鈥橝m茅rique (forthcoming)
Courses
Fall 2024
Spring 2025
Future courses may be subject to change.