Aboluwade
Dr. Ifeoluwa ABOLUWADE
English Literature and Cultural Studies
Akademische Rätin
Room: Am Hubland, 5.E.17
Phone: (+49) 931 31-89868
E-Mail: ifeoluwa.aboluwade@uni-wuerzburg.de
Office Hours (Winter Semester)
During the semester: Mondays 12 - 2 pm (12:00 - 14:00)
During the lecture-free period: on the following days from 11 am - 1 pm (11:00 - 13:00)
21.07.
28.07.
25.08.
15.09.
Please send an email to register for a time slot at least 24 hours in advance
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
- (Cultural) Translation and Adaptation
Current research projects
- Black Spectres: Figurations of the Trickster and the Warrior in Shakespearean Drama (Habilitation Project)
- Shakespeare and Misogyny
- Teaching the Global Renaissance Across Borders (with Nicholas Terpstra https://www.trinity.utoronto.ca/discover/about/who-we-are/provost/ and Francisco Nahoe https://zaytuna.edu/faculty-details/FR-Francisco-Nahoe
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)
Theses Supervision
If you wish to write your Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis under my supervision, you must have attended at least one of my seminars and completed it with a graded term paper.
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)
Winter Semester 2024/2025
- Talking Back: Contemporary Women Writers and Shakespeare (seminar, level 2)
- The Great Unread: Literature and Culture in the Digital Age (seminar, level 3)
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). 2025
https://www.bloomsbury.com/in/shakespeare-in-the-postcolonies-9781350344150/
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.
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“.
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
