Intern
Englische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft

Aboluwade

Dr. Ifeoluwa ABOLUWADE

English Literature and Cultural Studies

Akademische Rätin

Room: Am Hubland, 5.E.17

Office Hours

During the semester: Mondays 1- 3 pm (13:00 - 15:00)

 

 Research Interests

  • Early Modern Drama and Shakespeare Studies
  • Global Shakespeare
  • Digital Humanities/Computational Literary Criticism
  • Contemporary and Postcolonial Anglophone Literature
  • Cultural Memory
  • Gender Studies

 

Current research projects

Seit 04.2025 Akademische Rätin am Lehrstuhl Englisch Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Seit 2023 Mitglied, Teaching Committee, Renaissance Society of America

Seit 2021 Research Associate, The Tsikinya-Chaka Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

10.2019 – 03.2025 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, (DFG funded research project „Travelling Knowledge and Trans*textuality. African Re*Sources in Shakespearean Drama), Universität Bayreuth

09.2023 – 02.2024 Fellow, Käte Hamburger Kolleg, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

2022/2023 Fellow, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, USA

04.2021 – 03.2024 Co-PI with Prof. Chris Thurman, Prof. Peter Marx, Dr Serena Talento, Alexander von Humboldt Research Group Linkage Programme (Institutspatnerschaft zwischen Universität Bayreuth, University of the Witwatersrand und Universität Köln)

 07.2018 – 04.2019 Wissenschaftliche Hilfkraft, English Literature and Anglophone Cultures, Universität Bayreuth

10.2014 – 02-2019 Doctoral Candidate, English Literature and Anglophone Cultures, Universität Bayreuth

08.2008 – 07. 2009 Fulbright Teaching Assistant, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, USA

 

Membership in Academic Organizations

Renaissance Society of America (RSA)

German Shakespeare Society (Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft)

GAPS (Gesellschaft für Anglophone Postkoloniale Studien)

Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)

Summer Semester 2025

  • The Digital Turn in Literary Studies (seminar, level 1)
  • Maternity in Shakespeare (seminar, level 2)
  • Postcolonial Writing: Memory and Narrative (seminar, level 3, MA)

 

 

 

 

Publications

Monographs and Edited Collections

Aboluwade Ifeoluwa, Talento Serena et al. (eds.) African Shakespeare: Subversions,

Appropriations, Negotiations. Routledge, 2025 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003390763/african-shakespeareifeoluwa-aboluwade-serena-talento-oliver-nyambi-pepetual-mforbe-chiangong

 

Aboluwade, Ifeoluwa. “Subversive Transformations: Translation, Orature and Multimodality

in Selected Plays by Femi Osofisan”, Münster: Edition Assemblage, 2020.

 

Articles and Chapters

Aboluwade, Ifeoluwa. "Reincarnating Barbary: Translating Intersections of Race and Gender

in Desdemona and Wesoo Hamlet!." In: Shakespeare in the "Post"Colonies: Legacies,

Cultures and Social Justice, eds. Amrita Dhar and Amrita Sen, London: Arden Shakespeare

(Bloomsbury Publishing). https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/shakespeare-in-the-postcolonies-9781350344150/ (In Press)

 

Aboluwade, Ifeoluwa. "Playing With the Un/Dead: Translation, Memory and the Politics of

Gendered Identity in Femi Osofisan’s Wesoo, Hamlet!." In: African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations, eds. Aboluwade Ifeoluwa, Talento Serena et al. Routledge. 2025 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003390763-6/playing-un-dead-ifeoluwa-aboluwade?context=ubx&refId=7db18d70-be0c-4717-a0bb-47fc1d5b9056

 

Aboluwade Ifeoluwa & Talento Serena. “Introduction”. In: African Shakespeare:

Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations, eds. Aboluwade Ifeoluwa, Talento Serena et al.

Routledge. 2025 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003390763-1/introduction-ifeoluwa-aboluwade-serena-talento?context=ubx&refId=ab3a0491-3270-4a5c-9fae-c2a9c9ed28c8

 

Aboluwade, Ifeoluwa. "Beyond Interlingual Translation: Transforming History, Corporeality

and Spatiality in Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu". Adaptation, 28 Feb. 2019, https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apz004 Oxford University Press.

 

Aboluwade, Ifeoluwa. "Zum Stellenwert der Skopostheorie bei der englischen Übersetzung

von Hans Paasches Die Reise des Afrikaners Lukanga Mukara ins Innerste Deutschland." In:

Übersetzungsgermanistik aus einer afrikanischen Perspektive, ed. Shaban Mayanja,

Göttingen: Cuvillier Verlag, 2011, pp. 29-33.

 

In Preparation

Aboluwade, Ifeoluwa. “Transcultural Shakespeare: Visualizing Dis:connections

through the Protean Resignifications of the Weird Sisters in Macbeth“. Special Issue

Journal of Transcultural Studies

 

Aboluwade, Ifeoluwa. “Birthing Misogyny: Maternal Absence and Monstrous

Transgressions in Othello and Otaelo“. In: Shakespeare and Misogyny. eds. Brian

Chalk, Shannon Kelley et al., London: Arden Shakespeare (Bloomsbury Publishing)

 

Terpstra, Nicholas, Nahoe, Francisco, Aboluwade, Ifeoluwa. “Teaching the Global

Renaissance Across Borders”. Routledge