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Dr. Victoria Oluwamayowa Gbadegesin

Reader / Associate Professor | Deputy Director, IPTS

Faculty of Arts · Department of English and Literary Studies

Specialization Gender, Media and Cultural Discourse

Office: Department of English and Literary Studies

Phone: 08035742209

Email: victoria.ogunkunle@fuoye.edu.ng

Biography

Dr Victoria Oluwamayowa Gbadegesin holds a PhD in English Language from the University of Ibadan. She is a Reader in the Department of English and Literary Studies at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria, and the current Deputy Director of the Institute of Part-Time Studies, FUOYE. Her research interests include multimodal media discourse, gender studies, environmental discourse, and cultural linguistics. She is a fellow of the African Humanities Program of the American Council of Learned Societies and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge. She is well published.

Research Interests

Multimodal media discourse, Gender studies, Environmental discourse/Ecocinema, and Cultural linguistics

Qualifications

Selected Publications

  1. Social media dating shows and match-making routines: between humour and hate speech
    Authors: Famoroti Odunayo and Victoria Gbadegesin
    Journal of Gender Studies (2026)
  2. Negotiating boundaries through reality shows: a multimodal study of Big Brother Naija
    Authors: Gbadegesin V.O and E. I. Adeniyi
    Critical African Studies (2025)
  3. A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Crime in Selected Naira Marley’S Songs
    Authors: Ayokunle Tomilola and V. O. Gbadegesin
    Journal of English and Communication in Africa (2025)
  4. The Many Troubles of the Flaccid Penis: A Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis of Male Infertility in Ayobami Adebayo’s Stay with Me
    Authors: Gbadegesin V.O
    The Journal of Men’s Studies (2024)
  5. Language, Visuality and Representation of Nigeria-China Relations in Nigerian Digital Space.
    Authors: Onanuga P. A. and V. O Gbadegesin
    AGIDIGBO: ABUAD Journal of the Humanities (2024)
  6. Negotiating Sexual Boundaries through Reality Shows: A Multimodal Study of Paraphilic Behaviours in Big Brother Naija
    Authors: Gbadegesin V.O and Olufunwa H
    AGIDIGBO: ABUAD Journal of the Humanities (2024)
  7. dentity and Silence: Rethinking the Environmental and Political Space in Okey Ndibe’s “Arrows of Rain”
    Authors: Ngwaba I., V. O. Gbadegesin and C. I. Ibeku (2024
    AHYU: A Journal of Language and Literature (2024)
  8. Multimodal Interaction and Audience Engagement in MTN Project Fame West Africa
    Authors: Gbadegesin V.O
    Journal of English Scholars Association of Nigeria. (2023)
  9. The Politics of Digital Image Manipulation (Memes) in the New Media.
    Authors: Gbadegesin V.O
    African Humanity: Creativity, Identity and Personhood. Abimbola Asojo and Toyin Falola (eds)Durham: Carolina Academic Press (2021)
  10. A Conversation Analysis of MTN Project Fame West Africa Music Reality Show
    Authors: Gbadegesin V.O
    TOJA: The Oye Journal of Arts (2021)
  11. Gender Ideology and Identity in Humorous Social Media Memes
    Authors: Gbadegesin V.O
    Digital Scholarship in Humanities (2020)
  12. Multimodal Construction of Stardom in Music Reality Shows: MTN Project Fame West Africa in Perspective,
    Authors: Oyeleye A. L. and Gbadegesin V.O
    Contemporary Music Review (2020)
  13. Bargaining Tactics or Deliberate Rebellion? Multimodal Challenge to Hegemonic Masculinity in Reality Shows.
    Authors: Gbadegesin V.O
    ender & Behaviour, (2020)
  14. A Functional Theory of Campaign Discourse Analysis of Some Nigerian 2015 Presidential Election Campaign Video Advertisements
    Authors: Onanuga P. A. and V. O Gbadegesin
    Papers in English and Liguistics (2019)
  15. A Multimodal Interaction Analysis of Selected 2015 Nigerian Election Campaign Adverts
    Authors: Gbadegesin V. O. and Onanuga P.A
    Communicatio (2018)
  16. The Enactment of Ideology and Self-Presentation in Political Campaign Videos of the 2015 General Election in Nigeria
    Authors: Gbadegesin V. O. and Onanuga P.A
    Discourse, Context and Media (2018)
  17. Interaction in the Musical Space: A Study of MTN Project Fame West Africa
    Authors: Gbadegesin V. O
    Oye: Journal of Language, Literature and Popular Culture (2017)
  18. Hegemony and Conflict in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
    Authors: Ogunkunle V.O
    Recent Developments in African Linguistics and Literature: A Florilegium for Francina Moloi (2014)
  19. Power, Responsibility and Language: Soyinka’s A Play of Giants and the Conative Function of Language
    Authors: Ogunkunle V.O
    OSAS (2014)
  20. Ideological Import of Names in Lineage Panegyrics in Yoruba Films
    Authors: Ogunkunle V.O
    The Criterion Journal of English (2013)
  21. A Semiotic Reading of the Symbols of Yoruba Traditional Marriage
    Authors: Ogunkunle V.O
    Theory and Practice in Language Studies (2013)

Awards

Membership of Professional Bodies

Paper Presentation - Local

Paper Presentation - International

Postgraduate Ph.D Supervision

Postgraduate M.Sc Supervision

Course Teaching