Kunle OKESIPE

COLLEGE: Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan College of Arts and Social Sciences

DEPARTMENT: English and Literary Studies

INSTITUTIONAL EMAIL: [email protected]

RESEARCH INTEREST:  Literary Theory, Postcolonial Literature, Ecocriticism, Creative Writing

Awards and Honours:
• Winner, Playwriting Contest, Association of Nigerian Authors/Wole Soyinka’s 20th Nobel Prize Anniversary, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 2006.
• Second Prize Winner, Association of Nigerian Authors/50th Things Fall Apart Anniversary Playwriting Contest, 2008.
• State Youth Merit Award in the Literary Arts, Oyo State Agency for Youth, 2008.

Courses Lectured:
• Communication in English Unit, Division of General Studies (Unit coordinator).
• Literary Theory and Criticism
• Workshop in Creative Writing
• African Written Poetry
• African-American and Caribbean Literature

Recommendation Links:
• Personal website: https://kunleokesipe.com
Selected Web Mentions
• “The Allegory of Self and Other in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel and Kunle Okesipe’s Professor’s Last Death” by Akin Oriola in Walter P. Collins III (ed) Emerging African Voices. New York: Cambria Press, 2010. <https://catalog.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/6061041>
• As a participating playwright in New Writing from Nigeria, Royal Court Theatre <https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/new-writing-from-nigeria/>
• In Thrive Hour Community Corner https://www.thetigermothreview.com/tmr-x-thrive-hour
• As winner of ANA literary prize <https://allafrica.com/stories/200609050182.html>

Google Scholar:  https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=pAqybQQAAAAJ

Kunle Okesipe currently teaches creative writing and postcolonial literature in the Department of English, Igbinedion University, Okada. A creative writer as well, Okesipe has won awards for his plays.