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Olanike Lawore is an Instructor in the Department of English at Louisiana State University (LSU), within the College of Humanities & Social Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. from LSU and was a Fulbright Scholar at Tulane University, where she taught linguistics and led translation projects. Her research focuses on identity construction in African and Black Diasporic literatures, postcolonial theory, and world literature. Lawore’s pedagogy integrates poetry to exemplify meaning-making in writing classes.
Her scholarship explores themes such as Nigerian identity, transnationalism, and cultural hybridity, as seen in her publications on Nigeriopolitanism and Yorùbá marriage rites. She has contributed to journals like Research in African Literatures and Yoruba Studies Review.
Lawore has been recognized as a Fulbright Scholar, reflecting her academic and pedagogical excellence. She currently teaches at LSU, continuing her work at the intersection of literature, identity, and cultural studies.
