Prof. Wumi Raji (Guest Professor)
Four years after his last visit at TUD, Professor Wumi Raji returns as guest professor to the Chair of English Literature. His stay is funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation in order to work on the concept of masculinity 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 in order to do research at the University of Bayreuth in 2000/2001. He has since benefitted from a number of different Alumni programmes of the Humboldt Foundation, including renewed research stays, book publishing subsidies and other grants. Professor Raji was also a recipient of the Volkswagen Foundation Research fellowship and the Nordic Africa Institute's African Guest Researcher’s fellowship. Moreover he was guest professor at Vaxjo University, Linnaeus University, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, and the University of Cambridge, UK. Prof. Raji 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 at 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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Chair of English Literary Studies
Chair of English Literary Studies
Visiting address:
Wiener Straße 48, Floor 3, Room 3.13
01219 Dresden
Office hours:
Consultation hours take place on Thursdays from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. after prior registration by e-mail (stefan.horlacher@tu-dresden.de). Individual consultations can also be arranged.