麻豆国产

Dr. Omotoyosi E. Odukomaiya specializes in Black science fiction and women鈥檚 literature. At 麻豆国产, she teaches courses in American ethnic literature, Black speculative fiction, the Harlem Renaissance and women鈥檚 literature. Her research explores how Black science fiction authors address historical trauma, envision future possibilities and depict the experiences of Black people across global diasporas.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Black science fiction
• Women鈥檚 literature

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., English literature, Southern Illinois University, 2023
• MBA, Webster University, 2016
• M.Sc., Marketing communication, University of Birmingham (UK), 2010
• B.A., English language and literature, Redeemer鈥檚 University, Nigeria, 2005

Selected PubIications

• 鈥淟agos Reimagined: Alien Engagements and Dystopian Realities in Tade Thompson鈥檚 Rosewater and Wole Talabi鈥檚 鈥楾he Last Lagosian,鈥�" African Literature Today 43: Afrifuturism, edited by Ernest Cole, Boydell and Brewer, 2025
• 鈥淧an-Africanfuturism: A Reconciliation of Black/African Pasts, Presents, and Futures,鈥� Siyabonana: Journal of Africana Studies, 2024
• 鈥淔igurations of Futurism in African Science Fiction: Negotiating a Decolonial Future for the Global African Diaspora,鈥� presentation at Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts annual conference, 2022
• "Fictionalized Accounts of African Migrant Mothers in And Breathe Normally and Anchor Baby," Cankaya University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021
• 鈥淓xamining the Role of History in Black Panther and Octavia Butler鈥檚 Kindred,鈥� International Journal of Art Humanities and Social Sciences Studies, 2020
• 鈥淟iminal Spaces, Disoriented Identities: An Immigrant鈥檚 Quest to Define Self in Teju Cole鈥檚 Open City,鈥� invited lecture at the University of Northern Alabama English Department Regional Graduate Conference, 2020

Outside the College

Outside of work, Omotoyosi loves cooking, listening to worship music and spending time outdoors playing with her three children.