Dr. Femi Eromosele

Universitair docent
Literatuurwetenschap
Literatuurwetenschap
e.f.eromosele@uu.nl

Femi Eromosele is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University. He holds a BA in English and Literature from the University of Benin and an MA in English from the  University of Ibadan. He obtained his PhD in African Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand. His dissertation examined the representation of madness in African literature from the perspective of disability studies and the emergent mad studies. He has held visiting fellowships at the Free University of Berlin, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS).  Since 2020, he has been a part of the research project “Entanglement, Mobility and Improvisation: Culture and Arts in Contemporary African Urbanism and Its Hinterlands” at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, where he held a postdoctoral position till 2021. He was awarded the African Humanities Fellowship in 2020 to research music videos in Nigeria. Before joining Utrecht University, he worked as Lecturer of English and Critical Thinking in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand.