Louise Durham Mead Professor
608-263-2848
tolaniyan@wisc.edu
PhD, Cornell University, 1991
MA, Cornell University, 1989
M. A., University of Ife, Nigeria, 1985
BA, University of Ife, Nigeria, 1982
African, African American and Caribbean literatures and culture studies; world literature in English; history, theory, and sociology of drama; popular culture studies; Derek Walcott's drama; popular music and politics; political cartooning.
African Literature: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory (co-edited with Ato Quayson; Blackwell 2007), Arrest the Music!: Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics, Indiana UP (2004); Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance: The Invention of Cultural Identities in African, African American and Caribbean Drama, Oxford UP (1995); Co-Editor, African Drama and Performance, Indiana UP (2004); Editor, On 'Post-Colonial Discourse': A Special Issue Callaloo 16.4 (Fall 1993); several book chapters and articles in journals such as Cultural Critique, Transition, Research in African Literatures, Theatre Journal, African American Review, Social Dynamics, Callaloo, etc..
My deep interest is transdisciplinary teaching and research; my goal is the cultivation of critical self-reflexivity about the many contexts of our expressions.