Professor, Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Florida-Gainesville
Areas of Interest: Yoruba language, African literature (pre-modern, modern, and postmodern), cultural studies (Africa and African Diaspora), film and media studies (Nigeria Nollywood).
Fẹ̀hìntọ́lá Mosádomi
University of Texas-Austin (Retired)
Areas of Interest: Interdisciplinary Linguistics, Francophone Studies. She is a poet who has authored several articles in books and journals on Creole Studies, Language and Gender, African Linguistics, and Pedagogy.
Akinloyẹ̀ Òjó
Associate Professor, Department Of Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies
Areas of Interest: His research interests include Yoruba language and linguistics, applied linguistics and language teaching, and language, culture and society.
Moses Mábayọ̀jẹ́
New York University, New York City
Areas of Interest: Yoruba language and poetry; African Literature and Folklore.
A poet and co-author of Yoruba textbook and an author of research articles on Yoruba language and development.
Olúwafúnkẹ́ Ògúnyá-Ọláòṣebìkan
Doctoral Candidate, the English department, Florida State University
Areas of Interest: Oluwafunke's research interest focuses on African/Africana folklore, Motherhood, and African/Africana women’s fiction.
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.
Akínṣọlá Ògúndèjì
Lead coordinator, Yoruba Heritage Language Program; Consultant, Yoruba for Professional Purpose, Madison WI.
Areas of Interest: Yoruba language pedagogy; material development and training; Yoruba translation and interpretation, Yoruba for professional purposes.
Gabriel Ayọ̀ọlá
Department of AfroAmerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Areas of Interest:Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies. His research intersects African Literature, Translations and Yoruba Language and Culture with interest in Onomastics.
Èyítáyọ̀ Akọ́mọláfẹ́
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Areas of Interest: Sociolinguistic
Abimbola Adelakun
Assistant Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas- Austin.
Areas of Interest: Africana, Pentecostalism, Religion and Performance, Religious Creativity.
Ás̩ìmíyù Adékúnlé
Department of Arts & Social Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Lagos.
Areas of Interest: Yorùbá pedagogy, applied Linguistics, language policy, translation, creation of instructional video animation, and administration of test items for examination purposes.
Matthew Ajíbádé
Graduate Student, Linguistics, Indiana University
Areas of Interest:
Adébímpé Adégbìtẹ́
Graduate Student, Linguistic Anthropology, Tulane University.
Areas of Interest: Yoruba proverbs, specifically the composition and meaning of the proverbs and how they are efficient tools in teaching children Yoruba language and culture.
Táíwò Ehineni
African Language Program Preceptor, Harvard University
Areas of Interest:
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.
Báyọ̀ Ọmọlọlá
College of Arts & Sciences, Howard University.
Areas of Interest: Yoruba studies, African literature (oral and written), African culture, African journalism, African movies, African gender issues, human rights, African political rhetoric, and African diasporas.
Harrison Adéníyì
Professor, Lagos State University Ojo, Campus
Areas of Interest:
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.
Adéyínká Fáshokun
Division of Literature, Language and Culture, Stanford University
Areas of Interest: Pedagogy of Yoruba Language. Interested in the History, Music and the Visual Arts of the Yoruba people. He studies Yoruba religions. Does Interpretation and Translation of the language.
Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́
Humanities Distinguished Professor, Dept of English, Ohio State University.
Areas of Interest: Yorùbá Literature, literary theory, African American Literature, and Anglophone literatures of Africa, South Asia, and the Caribbean.
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.
Victor Àlàbí
Graduate Student, Linguistics, Indiana University
Areas of Interest: Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics and Semiotics.
Clement Odòjé
Department of Linguistics and African Languages, University of Ibadan, Nigeria.
Areas of Interest: Computational Linguistics, and Syntax. His current project is on 'Machine Translation'
Kazeem Kẹ́hìndé Sanuth
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington.
Areas of Interest: SLA, Critical Applied linguistics, Yoruba language pedagogy, Language Study Abroad.
Dámilọ́lá Adébọ́nọ̀jọ
Graduate Student, Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, University of Georgia.
Areas of Interest: Translation Studies, African/Yoruba Literature, Yoruba Language in Technology, Yoruba language pedagogy.