BERNARD Olúwábùnmi Tọ́pẹ́

Lecturer I

Email address(es): bunmibernard@oauife.edu.ng

Office Address: Humanities Block III Room 407c

ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0537-6416

Academic Qualifications: B.A. Yorùbá (2008); M.A. Yorùbá Language and Literature (2012); Ph.D. Yorùbá Language and Literature (2017), Ife.

Areas of Specialization: Yorùbá Language, Yorùbá Oral and Written Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Identity Politics, and Environmental Studies.

Title of M.A. Thesis: Akindipe, Olúwábùnmi Tọ́pẹ́ (2012). “Àgbéyè̩wò Às̩àyàn Lítírés̩ò̩ Alohùn Ní Ilè̩-Olúji” (An Examination of the Thematic and Stylistic Features of Selected Oral Literature in Ilè̩-Olúji)

Title of Ph.D. Thesis:

Akindipe, Olúwábùnmi Tọ́pẹ́ (2017). “Ìtúpalẹ̀ Àkòónú àti Ìṣọwọ́lò Ìpohùn Ọdún Ògún Obìnrin ní Àkúrẹ́” (An Appraisal of the Content and Style in the Orature of Ògún Obìnrin Festival in Àkúrẹ́)

Fellowships:

Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) Fellowship 2023/24 AHP/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship 2021/22 University of Cambridge Visiting Research Fellowship 2022/23

Sustainable Futures in Writing Workshops (Virtual Fellowship) University of Glasgow 2021 A.G. Leventis Fellowship at SOAS, University of London (deferred to 2022 due to covid-19)

2020 University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) (deferred to 2021 due to covid-19) 2020

Research Grants:

Conference attendance grant to attend the Religion and Natural Environment International Conference. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel. January 9-11, 2023.

Conference attendance grant to attend the Lagos Studies Association Annual Meeting, June 21 – 25, 2022, by IFRA-Nigeria.

Travel grant to attend 2nd International, Interdisciplinary Conference. Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA. March 15-18, 2019.

Ongoing Current Research:

The gods are wise: Environmental sustainability in Yorùbá sacred orature.

Publications:

Bernard, O.T. (2021) “Constructing Environmental Degradation and (In)Fertility Yorùbá Orature” Religion Compass. (2021) e12418. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12418.

Bernard, O.T. (2020). “A Literary Appreciation of Blood Symbolism in Ifá Divination Poetry among the Yorùbá.” Yoruba Studies Review. 5(1.2): 21-38.

Bernard, O.T. and Araroba, T.O. (2019). “Yorùbá Proverbs and Judicial System: An Evaluative Deduction.” Akungba Journal of Linguistics and Literature. 10: 10-21.

Bernard, O.T. (2018c). “Ipa Ìfààbọ̀-rọ́pò-odidi, Ìfohunpèèyàn àti Ìpàrokò nínú Ewì-Àwíṣẹ.” Ife Journal of Languages and Literatures. 4(1): 114-127.

Bernard, O.T. (2018b). “The Use of Incantations and Medicine in the Works of D. O. Fagunwa” IHAFA: A Journal of African Studies. 9(1): 251-263.

Bernard, O.T. (2018a). “The Construction of Poverty in Selected Yoruba Written Poetry” Poverty and the Humanities. Faculty of Arts, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Nigeria. Pp 189-204.

Akindipe, O.T. (2016b). “Spirit Possession”, in: Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Yoruba, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. Pp 308-309.

Akindipe, O.T. (2016a). “Libation”, in: Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (eds.) Encyclopedia of the Yoruba, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. Pp 197-198.

Bernard, O.T. (2015). “Beyond Spoken Words: The Yoruba Indigenous Communication Practices” Ife: Journal of the Institute of Cultural Studies. 11: 39-53.