Professor, Literature and Cultural Studies Louise Durham Mead Professor of English E-mail: tolaniyan@wisc.edu 608-262-8168 On the web: -English Department Bio -Co-Editor, West Africa Review -Chair, African Diaspora Research Circle -Political cartoonists in Africa -Cartooning in Nigeria -UW Visual Culture -Wisconsin Week article about political cartoon research

Degrees and Institutions:

Ph.D., Cornell University, 1991
M.A., Cornell University, 1989
M. A., University of Ife, Nigeria, 1985
B.A. (First Class Honours), University of Ife, Nigeria, 1982

Research Interests:

African, African American and Caribbean literatures and culture studies; world literature in English; history, theory, and sociology of drama; popular culture studies especially of popular music and political cartooning, questions of interdisciplinarity, philosophy and sociology of modernity

Some Current Projects:

--Political Cartooning in Africa
--Performing Postcoloniality: Derek Walcott and the Caribbean Archipelago
--The Audience: A History of African American Literature
--A Cultural Biography of the Postcolonial African State

Courses Taught:

AF 402: Theory of African Literature
AF 413: Contemporary African and Caribbean Drama
AF 983: African Diaspora – Theory and Practice
EN 516: African Literature
EN 516: Postcolonial Literature
EN 591: African and African Diaspora Literature
EN 591: Black Women Dramatists
EN 591: African Diaspora Cultural Studies
EN 823: Postcolonial Cultural Studies

Selected Publications:

--Co-Ed., African Literature: An Anthology of Theory and Criticism
(Blackwell, 2007)

“From Black Aesthetics to Afrocentrism (Or, A Small History of an African and
African American Discursive Practice),” West Africa Review 9 (2006)

Arrest the Music!: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics, Indiana UP (2004)

--Co-Ed., African Drama and Performance, Indiana UP (2004)

Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African American and Caribbean Drama, Oxford UP (1995)