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Kolawole Olaiya is an Associate Professor of English, Anderson University, South Carolina. He has taught Film and Television Scriptwriting, World Literature, and Postcolonial Literature in Nigeria and the United States. He was a 2023-2024 US Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria. He is currently working on a book on Nigerian Films. He has special interest in the Representation of Disability studies in Films – especially Nigerian Films. He has a blog, Nollywood in Review: http://kolaolaiya.com & https://www.youtube.com/@nollyinreview.
B.A in Dramatic Arts (Hons), Obafemi Awolowo University (Nigeria)
Advanced Educational Television Production, Television Training Centre. (Berlin).
M.A in English, University of Maiduguri (Nigeria)
Doctor of Philosophy in Drama, University of Toronto (Canada).
My classes are interactive and discussion based. It is a friendly space where students work together and exchange ideas on a variety of topics.
Anderson University provided me the opportunity to teach, work closely with, and mentor students.
That English goes beyond learning to write good papers. Good communication is the heart and soul of all disciplines.
United States Fulbright Scholar, 2023-2024.
Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Award (CADFP), 2021.
Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Award (CADFP), 2018
There is no greater joy than helping students grow to achieve their academic and life goals. The small class size at Anderson University creates an enabling environment for teachers to help students achieve their goals.
Africa and African Diaspora Literatures and Cultural Studies; Dramatic Theory and
Criticism; Postcolonial Studies; Film Criticism and Theory; Representations of Disability
in Literature and Films; Tragic Theory; Writing for Film and Television and Popular Culture.
Olaiya. Kolawole. 2024. Nigerian Films and Arts blog, Nollywood in Review: http://kolaolaiya.com & https://www.youtube.com/@nollyinreview.
Olaiya, Kolawole. 2022. “Debunking or Reinforcing Stereotypes?: The Representation of Albinism in Three Nigerian Films” in Cultural Representations of Albinism in Africa: Narratives of Change. Ed. Charlotte Baker and Elvis Imafidon. Peter Lang.
Olaiya, Kolawole. 2021. “Demonizing Madness: Madness as Deus Ex Machina in Nollywood Movies” inDisability in Africa: Inclusion, Care, and the Ethics of Humanity. Ed. Toyin Falola and Nic Hamel. Rochester: Rochester University Press, June 2021.
Olaiya, Kolawole. 2014. “… in the Name of the Son: the Son as Scapegoat in African Literature.” In Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies in West and Central Africa: Beyond Right and Wrong, edited by Akanmu Adebayo, Brandon Lundy, Jesse Benjamin, and Joseph Kingsley Adjei. Lanhan: Lexington Books.
Olaiya, Kolawole. 2014. “Commodifying the ‘Sacred,’ Beatifying the ‘Abnormal’: Nollywood and the Representations of Disability.” The Global South (Spring) 7:1 137-156.
Olaiya, Kolawole. 2014. “Drama as Wayfarer: Performing Africa in Canada.” At the Crossroads: Readings of the Postcolonial and Transnational in African Literature & Visual Art, edited by Ghirmai Negash, Andrea Frohne, and Samuel Zadi. 257-272. Trenton: African World Press.
Olaiya, Kolawole. 2008. “Deconstructing Apartheid’s Global Gaze: Death and Resistance in Fugard et al.’s Sizwe Bansi is Dead.” The Global South (Fall) 2:2 75-91.
Olaiya, Kolawole. 2002. “The Shifting Structures of Power in The Beatification of Area Boy.” Modern Drama (Fall) 45:3 395-408.
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