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Olakunle George

Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies

Office: 70 Brown St., Rm. 222
Phone: (401) 863-2879

Courses '09-'10
  Sem I:
  •   ENGL 0610E - S01: Postcolonial Literature -- CRN 14935
  •   ENGL 1710J - S01: Modern African Literature -- CRN 14945
  Sem II:
  •   ENGL 1760T - S01: Literary Africa -- CRN 24975
  •   ENGL 2760M - S01: Postcoloniality in Theory and Literature -- CRN 24984

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Degrees
Ph.D. Cornell University, 1992
B.A. University of Ibadan, Nigeria, 1984

Research Interests
African literature, postcolonial studies, literary and cultural theory

Professional Accomplishments
George has taught classes on African literary and cultural studies, black-Atlantic discourses, and Anglo-American literary and cultural theory. He has held a research fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and authored a book titled Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters (State University of New York Press, 2003). His articles have appeared in Comparative Literature; Diacritics; Novel: A Forum on Fiction; Research in African Literatures; and Representations. His current book project is entitled Pagans and Patriots: Conversion and the Text of Africa.