Gbemisola Adeoti
Gbemisola Adeoti is a Nigerian academic and poet. He is a professor of Literature in the English Department at Obafemi Awolowo University. He is the author of Naked Soles which was at a time recommended by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board. Between 2011 and 2015, he served as the Director of the Institute of Cultural Studies, and he was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 2015 to 2019 at OAU.
Background
Gbemisola Adeoti hails from Iseyin in Oke Ogun area of Oyo state. He had his primary and secondary education at St Mary's Catholic Primary School and Koso Community Grammar School both in Iseyin, from 1973 to 1983 where he graduated as the best student. He obtained his B. A. Dramatic Arts and M. A. Literature in English degrees from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. He later bagged a PhD in English in 2003 with focus on Dramatic Literature from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria.Gbemisola Adeoti was once a Reporter/Researcher with, Lagos, before joining the English Department of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife as a Graduate Assistant where he rose to become a professor in 2010. His areas of teaching and research include: Dramatic Literature, African literature, Shakespeare Studies, Literary History/Theory and Popular Culture.
Academic Writings and Life
Adeoti has published widely in reputable local and international outlets. His works include , , and . His Inaugural lecture, presented in 2015 is entitled: .Adeoti co-edited and ; the proceeding of the First Playwrights Conference in Nigeria in 2013. He is also the editor of and . He has also worked on two volumes of critical essays on Ahmed Yerima dramatic oeuvre - and .
Adeoti was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Workshop Theatre, School of English, University of Leeds, United Kingdom in 2008 and a Postdoctoral Fellow of the African Humanities Program in residence at the International Institute for Advanced Studies of Culture, Institutions and Economic Enterprises, Accra, Ghana from 2009 to 2010. In 2012, he was awarded the Presidential Fellowship of the African Studies Association, Philadelphia, in USA. He is currently an Advisor/Mentor for the African Humanities Program.
Adeoti is a member of professional associations such as the Association of Nigerian Authors, National Association of Nigerian Theatre Arts Practitioners, Society of Nigerian Theatre Artistes, English Scholars Association of Nigeria and Nigerian Academy of Letters. He was the Director, Institute of Cultural Studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, from 2011 to 2015 and Dean, Faculty of Arts from 2015 to 2019. He served as the Editor of Ife Studies in African Literature and the Arts and IFE: Journal of the Institute of Cultural Studies. He is a Reviewer and member of Editorial Advisory Boards of several local and foreign Journals. He has also attended academic conferences in many countries of Africa, Europe and America.