Folorunso Olasimbo Odidiomo, Max Kade Fellow
PhD Student
Germanic Studies
Pronouns: he/him/his
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About
Folorunso Odidiomo is a PhD student and TA in the Department of Germanic Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago. He holds a BA in German from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and a MA in Didactic German as a Foreign Language from the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany. His (under-)graduate and professional training as a German teacher were significantly shaped by several Goethe-Institut and German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarships and awards for professional development and a DAADscholarship to study at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena. Before his arrival at UIC, Folorunso has taught courses in German language, literature, and culture on and off in the Department of Foreign Languages at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and worked as a Research Assistant at the Humanities Collaborative Research Centre (SFB/FK 560), Institute of African Studies/Linguistics of the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Folorunso’s research interests are in literary studies, critical theory, gender studies, postcolonial and postmigrant studies, African German diaspora studies, modernism, modernity, German film and culture. He is currently working on “Generation, Race, and Colonialism: Heinrich von Kleist in the Context of the Long Nineteenth-Century Literature”. He was a Max Kade fellow (2023-2024); a recipient of the Max Kade Travel Grant (2024/2025) and the Astrida Orle Bridges Scholarship Fund (2024/2025). He is an alumnus of the DAAD.