Fẹ̀hìntọ́lá Mosádomi
Areas of Interest: Yoruba language, African literature (pre-modern, modern, and postmodern), cultural studies (Africa and African Diaspora), film and media studies (Nigeria Nollywood).
Olúṣẹ́gun Ṣóẹ̀tán
Teaching Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University, PA
Areas of Interest: Olusegun Soetan is a film critic and cultural studies scholar. His scholarship focuses on African cinema, especially Nollywood, and it intersects gender, diaspora studies, African language, and identity politics.
Professor, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies (HLS)
Areas of Interest: Antonia Folarin Schleicher is a Professor of Linguistics at the Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. She is also the director of the United States National African Language Resource Center (NALRC), Bloomington, Indiana.
Adéọlá Agòkè
Associate Director of Language Program, Department of African Cultural Studies, the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Areas of Interest: Adeola’s research interest is in critical discourse studies, sociocultural linguistics, second language acquisition, and pedagogy of African languages. As one whose passion is to bring research to program design and instruction, she brings dynamic approaches to African Language pedagogy.
Esther Fátúyì
Distinguished Pedagogist, Librarian, author, culture enthusiast, and Yoruba language advocate, USA, Nigeria and South Africa.
Areas of Interest: Dr. Esther Akomolafe Fatuyi taught Yoruba language and culture from beginning to advanced levels at the University. She was a project coordinator for African languages where she coordinated research projects on African languages and culture and the training of language teachers for professional development.
Olúṣẹ̀yẹ́ Adéṣọlá
Senior Lecturer, Program in African Languages, Yale University.
Areas of Interest: Comparative Syntax, African Linguistics, Stylistics, African History, Yoruba Culture and Literature, Second Language Acquisition, Africa and its Diaspora, Syntactic Theory, Anaphora, Wh-movement and Focus Constructions.
Japhet Àjàní
PhD Candidate, Linguistics Program, Tulane University, New Orleans.
Areas of Interest: His research interests lie in Phonetics, Phonology, Sociophonetics especially in African Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. Those research interests also interfaces with cultures of Africa, as well as identifying linguistic nuances that may be present in those cultures.