Faculty Profile

Adetayo Alabi
Associate Professor of English
Phone Number: (662)915-6948
Email: aalabi@olemiss.edu

Key Words: Postcolonial Studies, African-American Literature, Caribbean Literature

Research Description: Teaching and research interests are Postcolonial studies with an emphasis on African, African-American and Caribbean literature and culture, Literary theory, and Autobiographical genre in Comparative Black Studies.

Honors Theses:

Rackley, Lauren Elizabeth (2015) Gender Performance, Trauma, and Orality in Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun and Purple Hibiscus. (full text)

Odom, Douglas Archer (2013) "A Comparative Analysis of the Trickster Figure in Africa, the Caribbean, and North America" (full text)