Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka (University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas)

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Dr. Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka
Women's Studies Program and Theatre/Film Department
University of Kansas
1445 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, Kansas  66045  USA 

phone:	785-864-2312 / 2691
fax:	785-864-5742
e-mail: omofola@ukans.edu



Research Interests:  Women and war; Gender, Literature and nationalism
Theatre and Liberation Movements

Courses Taught:  Women in African Literature; Race, Gender and
Post-colonial Studies; Race and the American Theatre;  Postmodern Theory
and Criticism; Graduate Seminar in African Theatre; Introduction to
African Dance Theatre.


Recent Publications:  

"Who Can Silence Her Drums? A Critical Analysis of Tess Onwueme's
Plays" in Drama Review, Spring. 2002. 

"Theatre and Drama: A Historical Analysis" in M. Sadiku & N. Lawal
(eds.) Yoruba Life and Culture. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press.
Forthcoming

Yoruba Dance: The Semiotics of Movement and Body Attitude in a
Nigerian Culture. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 1998. 

"Negritude, Feminism and the Quest for Identity: Re-Reading Mariama
Bâ's So Long A Letter." Women's Studies Quarterly, 25, 3/4 Winter,
1997, 35-52.