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Areas of interest
African World Literatures
Education
- Ph.D (French Studies), University of British Columbia
- M.A. (French Studies), University of Ibadan
- B.A. (French & Education), Obafemi Awolowo University
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.
Expertise
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’Université de Montréal. He is the winner of the 2021 François-Paré Award for the best paper presented by an emerging scholar at the international conference organized by APLAQA (Association des Professeur.e.s des littératures acadienne et québécoise de l’Atlantique).
Courses
Fall 2026
Spring 2027
Future courses may be subject to change.