Prof. Wumi Raji (Guest Professor)
Four years after his last visit at TUD, Professor Wumi Raji returns as guest professor to our chair. His stay is funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation. He is researching topics regarding masculinities in recent african fiction.
Professor Wumi Raji studied English at the Universities of Ilorin and Ibadan, Nigeria specialising in Postcolonial Drama, Theatre and Literature. He first won the Alexander von Humboldt Research fellowship in 1999, utilising it at the University of Bayreuth in 2000/2001. He has since benefitted from a number of the Alumni programmes of the Foundation, including renewed research stays, book publishing subsidy, research equipment grant, and Humboldt Kolleg grant. Professor Raji was also a recipient of the Volkswagen Foundation Research fellowship, the Nordic Africa Institute African Guest Researcher’s fellowship, Vaxjo University’s Guest Researcher’s scholarship, Linnaeus University’s Visiting Researcher’s fellowship, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University’s Guest professorship and the African Studies Visiting fellowship of the University of Cambridge, UK, among others. Wumi Raji has authored, edited or co-edited many scholarly books, and published several journal articles and book chapters. He has taught at the Universities of Ilorin, Benin, The Gambia, Bayreuth, Frankfurt and TU Dresden, and is the current Head of Department of Dramatic Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Nigeria. His main interests as a researcher include Postcolonial Literature and Culture, Theatre Studies, Gender and Sexualities with particular interest in Masculinities as well as Transnationalism and Transculturalism in African Literature.
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