Areas of interest
Joel's current research focuses on the depiction of historical forgetting in postcolonial African and Caribbean novels. His latest article appeared in Les presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Montr茅al. He is the winner of the 2021 Fran莽ois-Par茅 Award for the best paper presented by an emerging scholar at the international conference organized by APLAQA (Association des Professeur.e.s des litt茅ratures acadienne et qu茅b茅coise de l鈥橝tlantique).
Biography
Joel Akinwumi teaches African World Literatures in the Department of World Languages and Literatures and the Department of French. He received his Ph.D. from UBC, where he worked as a research assistant on various projects and taught courses ranging from elementary to advanced levels of French.
Education
- Ph.D (French Studies), University of British Columbia
- M.A. (French Studies), University of Ibadan
- B.A. (French & Education), Obafemi Awolowo University
Courses
Fall 2026
Spring 2027
Future courses may be subject to change.