I am a Nigerian literary scholar, curator, writer, and digital humanities practitioner whose work sits at the intersection of contemporary African literature, museum studies, feminist and futurist thought, and collaborative digital storytelling. I work in the fields of African and African American studies, global Black Anglophone literatures, gender and sexuality studies as well as cultural studies, digital media studies, and museum studies. I also have extensive professional experience curating performances of scholarship and art, supported by a certificate in Museum Studies.
I have successfully defended her dissertation, Naija-Lit-to-the-World: 21st Century Subcultures and the Reconfiguration of Nigerian Literary History, at the University of Alabama. This project examines twenty-first-century Nigerian literary and digital subcultures as globally mobile, theoretically generative sites of cultural production.
A committed, student-centered teacher, I teach courses in English Composition, American Literature, African American Literature, and others, in ways that integrate literary studies, visual culture, and media analysis, fostering critical thinking and cultural literacy. I am also an active independent curator of arts.

My research, teaching, curating, and writing are all connected and channeled toward translating humanities-centered knowledge, especially as it concerns Black lives and my interests, into public spaces by way of creative endeavors.
I am looking to finish writing a collaborative interactive novel I have been working on for a while titled, “Oriseje”. This is my dream creative project. But, for now, what I have out in the world are a self-published novel titled “Half Lives” and a short story titled “Moo: Second Cantos”. The only recognition to my name is a Pushcart Prize nomination for the short story, “Moo”. I have also written a chapbook of hybrid works titled “Fire Rat” and a collection of non-fiction essays titled, “Enikure” that I hope to publish very soon.


Latest endeavor
Still Life: I’m Still Life (title inspired by RM’s song Still Life) is an ode to transitions, limbos, aging, stagnation, and becoming–embracing the motions and stillness that come with loving, honing, evolving within, and ultimately transitioning from a craft/profession. The event will also feature readings from international students, including myself. The exhibit ran from April 1 to 13, 2026 at Maxwell Hall, the University of Alabama. It also included a closing ceremony that happened on the 13th and was attended by interntional students and faculty.
The project is inspired by my mother, THE Mojisola Akinwande, who has been a photographer for over 30 years. I have watched her career move through many phases: analogue to digital photography, from owning a studio to stepping away while raising children and now returning to it as an empty nester. These shifts have led her to practice photography from a quieter place—a still life that is nonetheless life.



Explore VIDEOS RELATED TO MY CREATIVE ENDEAVORS
This video project poses as a curated digital repository of #ENDSARS2020 related experiences. But even more, like the slogan Sorosoke, this project is the outcome of offering a few Nigerians a platform to emotively voice out lingering concerns, unsaid stories, pent-up agitations and bitter-sweet memories. For the project, the personalised narratives of ten Nigerian creatives were collated, compiled, and curatively edited into a singular, cohesive, coherent video of shared experiences that were showcased during a forum held on June 27, 2020, titled “Digital Storytelling and Artivism in Nigeria: The Case of the ENDSARS Movement.”
The project focuses on de-sanitizing the creative process in academia by placing an emphasis on the origins and cultivation of a creative work rather than focusing solely on the final product. We have asked some artists/scholars in the humanities to document their creative processes as they work towards a final product, eschewing the commodified productivity culture that is valued and demanded by academia. By emphasizing process as equally important to the final outcome, this project will focus on how the narrative of our own creative endeavors sustains us.