Speaker Bio: Olakunle George is Professor of English and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University. George studied at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria, and Cornell University, Ithaca NY. His primary academic interests are in African literary and cultural criticism, Black Internationalism during the mid-20^th Century decolonization era, and Anglophone postcolonial studies. He is author of African Literature and Social Change: Tribe, Nation, Race, and Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters, winner of a “CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title” award. He also co-edited (with Susan Hegeman, Efraín Kristal, and Peter M. Logan), The Encyclopedia of the Novel (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011), and edited A Companion to African Literatures (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021).

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