Olakunle George
Olakunle George has research interests in African literature, Black Atlantic cultural criticism, postcolonial studies, and literary and cultural theory.
Biography
George has taught classes on African literary and cultural criticism, 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; Comparative Literature Studies; 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.
