CV - Omotayo Jemiluyi

Education

University of Missouri, Columbia
Master of Arts, French and Francophone Studies
Graduation: May 2025 | GPA: 3.97/4.00

University of Ibadan
Bachelor of Arts, French Studies
Graduation: February 2020 | GPA: 6.1/7.0 | First Class Honours

Academic Positions

Graduate Fellow
Interdisciplinary Migration Studies Institute (IMSI), University of Missouri
2024–Present

Graduate Instructor
School of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures (SLLC), University of Missouri
2023–2025

French Language Instructor
Dutse Model International School
2021–2022

Co-Initiator and Language Instructor
Speak a Foreign Language Initiative, University of Ibadan
2017–2020

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Ikú l’Obìnrin — ‘Women Are Death!’ An African Radical Feminist Subversion of Masculinity and Power in Nigerian Cinema.” Journal of African Cinemas. Accepted and forthcoming.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Performing Gendered Resistance: African Women Artistes and Gender Subversion in Afrobeats.” Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 1–37. https://doi.org/10.54103/gjcpi.2026.28848.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Queering Afrobeats: Gender, Sexuality, and Resistance in African Popular Music.” Journal of Gender Studies, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2026.2633722.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Conceptualizing the ‘Gossip Genre’ in Nollywood: Digital Aestheticization of Celebrity Scandal and the Performance of Gossip in Truth or Dare.” Celebrity Studies, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2026.2642656.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Theorizing ‘Odogwu Masculinities’: Nigerian Popular Culture and the Construction of the Empowered ‘Odogwu’ Ideal Male.” The Journal of Men’s Studies, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/10608265261433374.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Postcolonial Passages: Tiken Jah Fakoly and the Musical Intervention of African Mobility.” Nordic Journal of Migration Research 16 (2): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.1065.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2026. “Of Barren Lands and Broken Promises: Writing Social Change in Kourouma’s Suns of Independence and Allah Is Not Obliged.” Journal of Postcolonial Writing 62 (3): 409–423. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2025.2593631.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo, and Temitope Falokun. 2026. “Performing the Trenches and (Re)Branding Poverty: Subaltern Visuality, Performativity, and Postcolonial Politics in Nigerian Popular Media.” Journal of Multicultural Discourses 21 (1): 44–64. https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2025.2611118.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “‘Cultures Are Not Anyone’s Property’: An African Critique of Mnouchkine’s Universality Claim on Authenticity and Cultural Appropriation.” Junctions 9 (1): 26–42. https://doi.org/10.33391/jgjh.237.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Performing Power: Hypermasculinity and Human Fragility in Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé.” Journal of War & Culture Studies, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/17526272.2025.2584755.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “‘Tell Your Papa’: Aesthetics of Confrontation and Visual Witnessing in Nigerian Protest Music.” Dialogue 12 (2): 28–48. https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dialogue/vol12/iss2/3.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo, and Abubakar Tajudeen. 2025. “Singing Hunger in Protest Music: Nasboi’s ‘Hunger Games’ and Post-Election Realities in Nigeria’s ‘Emilokan’ Era.” Midwest Social Sciences Journal 28 (1): 149–162. https://doi.org/10.22543/2766-0796.1201.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Warriors and Colonizers: Colonial Allegories and Resistance in Nollywood’s Jagun Jagun.” Nordic Journal of African Studies 34 (3): 209–226. https://doi.org/10.53228/d8ngnt69.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Nigerian Diasporic Masculinities: Definitions, Perceptions, and Evolutions.” Journal of International Migration and Integration 27: 193–211. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-025-01289-3.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “From Naija to the States: Stereotypes and Resistance of the Nigerian Man in America.” Howard Journal of Communications, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2025.2525258.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Performing Toxic Womanhood: Patriarchy, Infidelity, and the ‘Good Woman’ Trope in Yoruba Nollywood.” Women’s Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2025.2520324.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Being African, Staying African: Constructing and Preserving African Masculinities among Nigerian Men in the United States.” National Identities 28 (2): 265–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2025.2514044.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2025. “Àjẹ́kùnrin: Witchcraft, Gender Politics, and Gender Nonconformity in Yoruba Spirituality.” Journal for Cultural Research 29 (3): 254–269. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2025.2471789.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2024. “Resisting Neocolonial Chains: African Emancipation in Brymo’s ‘Illusions.’” Muziki: Journal of Music Research in Africa 21 (2): 70–86. https://doi.org/10.1080/18125980.2025.2488850.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2024. “‘Original Sufferhead’: The Boy-Child and Masculine Sufferings in Ahmadou Kourouma’s Allah n’est pas obligé and Les Soleils des Indépendances.” French Cultural Studies 36 (1): 61–78. https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558241262682.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. 2024. “The Influence of Tiken Jah Fakoly’s Reggae Music in Post-Independence Côte d’Ivoire.” African Studies Quarterly 22 (3): 26–39. https://doi.org/10.32473/asq.22.3.137479.

Books and Monographs

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. Fela Kuti’s Musical Praxis as Decolonial Epistemology: Afrosonic Decoloniality and the Re-centering of African Indigenization. Manuscript under review in Journalism & Communication Monographs.

Book Chapters

Jemiluyi, Omotayo. “How to Tell a Grass-to-Grace Story: Spatial Otherness, Afrobeats Stardom, and Urban Postcoloniality in HBO’s Documentary Wizkid: Long Live Lagos.” In Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Poverty, edited by Rajendra Baikady. Accepted and in press, estimated 2026.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. “The Beast and the Nation: Animist Asexuality, Reproductive Nationalism, and Decolonial Asexualization in Nigerian Cinema.” In Routledge International Handbook of Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms, edited by Yo-Ling Chen and Ela Przybyło. Accepted and in press, estimated 2027.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. “‘We Will Never Forget’: Nigerian Popular Media and the Activistic Memorialization of the EndSARS Protest.” In Handbook on Digital Activism, edited by Paromita Pain. Under review.
Jemiluyi, Omotayo. “Caricaturing Feminism: The ‘Bad Feminist’ and Occultized, Anti-Feminist Imaginaries in African Screen Publics.” In Intimacies in Flux: Exploring History, Law, and African Sexualities, edited by Zanele Nyoni-Wood and Bright Alozie. In progress.

Book Reviews

Review of Genders, Sexualities, and Complexities in Africa, edited by Gabi Mkhize, Stanley Osezua Ehiane, and Lupenga Mphande. Forthcoming in The Black Scholar, 2026.
Review of The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities, edited by Ezra Chitando, Obert Bernard Mlambo, Sakhumzi Mfecane, and Kopano Ratele. NORMA (2026): 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/18902138.2026.2651429.
Review of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti: Afrobeat, Rebellion, and Philosophy, by Adeshina Afolayan and Toyin Falola. Popular Music 44 (3): 296–298. https://doi.org/10.1017/S026114302510127X.
Review of Beyond Death and Jail: Anti-Blackness, Black Masculinity, and the Demonic Imagination, by Ronald B. Neal. African and Black Diaspora (2025): 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2025.2526287.
Review of The State, Ethnicity, and Gender in Africa: Intellectual Legacies of Crawford Young, edited by Scott Straus and Aili Mari Tripp. African Studies Quarterly 23 (2): 106–107. https://journals.flvc.org/ASQ/article/view/139242.

Anthology and Self-Help Books

Fretty Trails & Tangling Emotions: An Anthology. Amazon KDP, 2022.
Resilience: The Act of Mastering Calmness in the Storm and the Key to Improving Your Mental and Emotional Strength to Conquer Adversities. Amazon KDP, 2022.
Resilience 2.0: From Becoming Stronger to Becoming Better: A Holistic Guide to a Better Self. Amazon KDP, 2022.

Conferences, Symposia, and Invited Talks

Co-chairing the panel “Reimagining Identities: Migration, Colonialism, and the Politics of Belonging” and presenting a paper on “Between Naija and America: A Qualitative Study of Nigerian Men and the Negotiation of Masculine Identities in the United States” at the African Studies Association Conference. 2026.
Presenting accepted paper on “The Trenches” at the African Studies Review Keyword Panel at the African Studies Association Conference. 2026.
Presenting accepted paper on “Against ‘Èmi l’ókàn’ (It’s My Turn) Rule: Protest Music in Nigeria under the Tinubu Administration” at the Northeast Popular Culture Association. 2026.
Presented a paper on “Afrosonic Decoloniality: Fela Kuti’s Wàhálà Afrobeat and the Recentering of African Epistemologies through Sound” at the University of Missouri’s Afro-Romance Institute Conference. 2026.
Presented a paper on “African Literature and the Quest for Social Change: Rereading Kourouma’s Suns of Independence and Allah Is Not Obliged” at the 79th Kentucky Foreign Language Conference. 2026.
Presented a paper on “Reggae Music Against Ecological Ruin: Tiken Jah Fakoly and Ecomusicological Activism in Postcolonial Africa” at CUNY’s Center for Black Literature 18th National Black Writers Conference. 2026.
Presented a paper on “Polyvalent Confinement: Prison as a Space of Postcolonial Negotiation in Francophone Cinema” at the 57th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. 2026.
Presented an invited talk on “From Fela Kuti’s Why Black Man Suffer to Burna Boy’s Monster You Made: African Music in the Age of Decolonization” at the Black Studies Department of the University of Missouri–Columbia for the Black History Month Series. 2026.
Attended the 16th Annual African, African American, and Diaspora Studies Interdisciplinary Conference organized by James Madison University. 2026.
Presented an invited talk on “Racialized Masculinities and Migrant Strategies Among Nigerian Men in the U.S.” at the Focus on Africa series at the University of Missouri’s African Interdisciplinary Studies Hub. 2025.
Co-chaired and co-organized the Interdisciplinary Migration Studies Institute student conference on “Borders, Mobility, and Migration in the 21st Century.” 2025.
Presented an invited talk on “Post-Independence Côte d’Ivoire and Dissident Tunes” at a Francophone course session at Stony Brook University. 2025.
Attended the Central States Language Teaching Conference in Kansas City, Missouri. 2025.
Presented an invited talk on “Holding on to ‘the African Man’: Negotiation and Preservation of African Masculinities Abroad” at the Interdisciplinary Migration Studies Institute fellows meeting. 2025.
Presented a paper on “The Influence of Tiken Jah Fakoly’s Reggae Music in Post-Independence Côte d’Ivoire” at the University of Alabama Languages Conference. 2025.

Scholarships and Awards

CAITY Travel Grant
2026

SLLC Best Graduate Paper in French and Francophone Studies
2025

University of Missouri Graduate School Professional Presentation Travel Scholarship
2025

University of Missouri Graduate Professional Council Conference Presentation Travel Awards
2025

Honorable Mention, SLLC Best Graduate Paper in French and Francophone Studies
2024

Carrie Wilkins Graduate Summer Fellowship
2023

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, School of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures, University of Missouri
2023–2025

Best Male Graduating Student, French Unit
2020

Second Runner-Up, French Annual Essay Competition, Alliance Française, Ibadan
2017

Second Runner-Up, French Annual Essay Competition, Alliance Française, Ibadan
2016

Peer Review Service for Academic Journals

Ad Hoc Peer Reviewer

South African Journal of African Languages
Taylor & Francis | 2026

Discover Global Society
Springer Nature | 2026

Nouvelles Études Francophones
University of Nebraska Press | 2026

Women’s Studies in Communication
Taylor & Francis | 2026

Society
Springer Nature | 2026

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Taylor & Francis | 2026

Critical Studies in Media Communication
Taylor & Francis | 2026

DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies
Ghent University, Belgium | 2026

Journal of Gender Studies
Taylor & Francis | 2026

Journal of African Cinemas
Intellect | 2026

SN Social Sciences
Springer Nature | 2025–2026

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Springer Nature | 2025–2026

Journal of International Migration and Integration
Springer Nature | 2025

Journal of Multicultural Discourses
Taylor & Francis | 2025

French Cultural Studies
SAGE | 2025

Membership and Leadership

Member, University of Missouri–Columbia Student Organization Allocation Committee
2024–2025

Member, Society for Collegiate Leadership & Achievement
2023–2025

Scholar, Deaton Scholars Program
2024

Public Relations Officer, Jigawa State Community Development Service
2021

Corps Member, NYSC Mass Literacy, Community Development Service
2021

Head of Department, News Department, Jigawa State NYSC OBS
2021

Volunteer French Teacher, Jesus Cadet, Redeem Christian Church
2020

President, Cercle Français, University of Ibadan
2019

Vice President, Association of Students of European Studies, University of Ibadan
2017

Assistant General Secretary, Cercle Français, University of Ibadan
2016

Public Relations Officer, Association of Students of European Studies, University of Ibadan
2016

Courses Taught

University of Missouri–Columbia

French Language

FREN 1100 – Elementary French I
Spring 2023

FREN 1200 – Elementary French II
Fall 2023–Spring 2024

FREN 2100 – Elementary French III
Fall 2024–Spring 2025

University of Ibadan

French Language

Basic French
Introductory French Language Course | 2017–2020

Administrative and Writing Experience

Office Support Assistant IV and Building Coordinator
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri
2025–Present

Freelance Writer
Odyssey Writers
2020–2022

Blog Post Writer
Luyis Updates, Luyis Media TV
2017–2020

Languages

English
Native; primary language of scholarship and instruction

Yorùbá
Native; fluent in spoken and written forms

French
Advanced; professional and academic working proficiency

German
Introductory level; basic expressions

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