Tolulope Adelabu
Position title: Special Projects PA
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Email: adelabu@wisc.edu
Address:
Contact for media and web communications, outreach materials, publication archive, and object donation.
Tolulope O. Adelabu is a PhD student at the Department of African Cultural Studies interested in the intersection of African childhood narratives with play-pleasure, trauma, and futuristic reparations. She has an extensive multidisciplinary professional and academic background in information, literary, language, and education studies. She earned a Master of Library and Information Studies at UW-Madison and a joint honors master’s degree in English Literature and Education at the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
Before joining the graduate program, Tolulope was the 2021/2022 Fulbright Foreign Language (Yoruba) Teaching Assistant at the Department of African Cultural Studies (ACS) at UW-Madison. In addition to teaching a language class, she worked with the director of the African Languages Program to develop an interactive pedagogy dictionary model for African languages.
She currently works with is the African Studies Program (ASP) as a special assistant for web, communications, collections, and outreach management.