1. FULL NAME : ODEBODE, Idowu Olusola (Ph.D)

CURRICULUM VITAE

2. POST AND DEPARTMENT: Associate Professor/ English (Language)

3. DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH: October 1,1968 / Ibadan

4. Age: 48 Years

5. Sex: Male

6. LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA: Ibadan South East

7. STATE OF ORIGIN: Oyo

8. NATIONALITY: Nigerian

9. ADDRESS: Block 3 Flat 2 of Raised Building, Redeemer's

University Quarters, Ede, Osun State,

Nigeria

10. CURRENT POSTAL ADDRESS: Dept of English, College of Humanities, Redeemer’s University, P.M.B. 230, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria 11. CELL PHONE NO: 08034494832, 08150431156 12. E-mail: [email protected], 13a. MARITAL STATUS: Married

13b. NAME AND ADDRESS OF SPOUSE: Mrs Abiola. J. Odebode, Nursing Services

Department, Federal Medical Centre, Owo

14. NUMBER OF CHILDREN WITH AGES: Two: First-11 years, Second- 9 years

15. INSTITUTIONS ATTENDED WITH DATES: a. University of Ibadan, Ibadan 2003-2010 b. University of Ibadan, Ibadan Nigeria 1999-2001 c. Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos, Nigeria 1995-1996 d. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria 1989-1993 e. Ibadan Municipal Govt. Gram. Sch. Aperin, Ibadan, 1980-1985 16. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS OBTAINED WITH DATES: a. Ph.D in English (Language) 2010 b. Master of Arts in English (Language) 2001 c. Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism 1996 d. Bachelor of Arts Education (English) 1993 e. School Certificate/GCE O’Level 1985 f. GCE O’Level Nov/Dec 1987

3. OTHER DISTINCTION AND AWARDS (i) First Recipient of The American Name Society’s Emerging Scholar Award-2008 (ii) Commonwealth Professional Fellowship (January-March 2015) (iii) Award of Recognition of Meritorious Service-Redeemer’s University- 2016

C. EMPLOYMENT RECORD 1. PREVIOUS WORKING EXPERIENCE OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

Sub Editor: Nigerian Tribune (1998-1999) Job Description  News writing, News editing  Proof reading , Page planning 2. PREVIOUS WORKING EXPERIENCE IN OTHER UNIVERSITY Tutorial Assistant: General Studies Programme, University of Ibadan, Ibadan (2003-2006) Job Description Teaching and Examining:  Use of English 3. WORKING EXPERIENCE AT THE REDEEMER’S UNIVERSITY a. Assistant Lecturer: Dept of English, Redeemer’s University, Nigeria (2006-2008) b. Lecturer II:Department of English, Redeemer’s University, Nigeria (2008-2011) c. Lecturer I:Department of English, Redeemer’s University, Nigeria (2011-date) d. Senior Lecturer: Dept of English, Redeemer’s University, Nigeria (2013-2016) d. Associate Professor: Dept of English, Redeemer’s University, Nigeria (2016-date)

Courses Taught:  Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis  Techniques of Writing, Introduction to Language Study,  Stylistics, Eng. in Book Publishing and Bibliographic Studies,  Speech Writing, Use of English, Varieties of English etc. D. DEPARTMENT/COLLEGE: English/Humanities E. DATE OF FIRST APPOINTMENT AT THE REDEEMER’S UNIVERSITY: 1st August, 2006

F. DATE OF CONFIRMATION OF APPOINTMENT AT REDEEMER’S UNIVERSITY: 1st August, 2009

G. CURRENT SALARY AND GRADE LEVEL: RUASS 6 STEP 1

H. CURRENT POSITION AND DATE OF LAST PROMOTION/APPOINTMENT: Associate Professor/1st October, 2013

I. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES: 1. American Name Society – Member\ 2. Canadian Society for the Study of Names - Member 3. Linguistic Society of America – Member 4. Society for the Study of Names in Nigeria- President 5. English Studies Association of Nigeria - Member 6. European Centre for Research Training and Development, UK- Member J. IMPORTANT ADMINISTRATIVE POSITION HELD AT RUN: • Ag Head - Department of English (April 2015-Date) • Ag Head- Department of Foreign Languages (2013-Date) • Postgraduate Coordinator - Department of English (2013- March 2015) • Course/Level Adviser- Department of English (2012- March 2015) K. OTHER POSITIONS WITHIN THE REDEEMER’S UNIVERSITY- a. Member- Senate, Redeemer's University b. Member- Senate Representation on Development Committee c. Member- Students' Disciplinary Committee d. Member- University Convocation Committee e. Member- Board of Postgraduate Studies f. Diploma Departmental Coordinator for RUNCONSULT on English g. College Business Committee- Member h. University Housing Committee- Member i. University Institutional Research Ethics Committee- Member j. Member- University Shop Allocation Committee k. Member- Accreditation Committee l. Member- Different Investigative Panels m. Member- Committee on White Board Maintenance

L. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES: Research Completed in the year An Ethnographic Analysis of Round Characters’ Onomastics in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King Horseman. On-going Research (a) Toponymy: A Sociolinguistic Study of Selected Place-Names in Nigeria (b) A Semio-pragmatic Study of Protests' Inscriptions Against Boko Haram's Abduction of Chibok Girls (c) Soyinka as a Clairvoyant: A Pragmatic Study of Onomastics in The Road and Nigeria’s Socio-political Situation between 1991 and 2001. M. POSTGRADUATE SUPERVISION: currently supervising one PhD candidate N. HONOURS/DISTINCTION/AWARDS: a. First Recipient of American Name Society Emerging Scholar Award (ANSESA)– 2008 b. Fourth Position at the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) Toponymic Contest on Africa, New York -2011. c. Commonwealth Professional Fellowship Award, University of Glasgow: January- March 2015 P. IMPORTANT LEARNED CONFERENCES/ WORKSHOP/COURSES ATTENDED WITH DETAILS ON PAPER PRESENTATION: (i) American Name Society/ Linguistic Society of America’s Annual Conference held at Hilton Chicago, USA, between 6-9, January, 2008. Paper Presented: A Lexico-semantic Interpretation of Soyinka’s King Baabu (ii) Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife: English Language, Literature and Communication Conference, August 20-23, 2012. Paper Presented: A morpho-pragmatic Study of Selected Anglicized Abiku Names on Facebook (iii) American Name Society/ Linguistic Society of America’s Annual Conference held at Marriot Copley Place, Boston MA, USA, 3-6 January, 2013. Paper Presented: A Socio-semantic Study of Twins’ Names among the Yoruba Nigerians. (iv) Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland 24th Spring Conference held at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom, March 27-29, 2015. Paper Presented: A Sociolinguistic Study of Selected Place-Names in Nigeria (v) Workshop on Proposal Writing for Winning International Grants and Awards, December, 2013, Redeemer's University (vi) Workshop on French Education/ Language Programmes held in Lagos (Eko Hotel), March, 2014 (vii) Technical Aid Corps Workshop, Akure, February, 2014 (viii) Linguistic Workshop, University of Glasgow, Scotland - February, 2015 (ix) Onomastic Workshop, University of Glasgow, Scotland, March 2015. Paper Presented: Animal (Re)Naming in Polygamous African Homes (x) Universita di Napoli, “L’Orientale” International Conference on (Re) naming Places, (Re) shaping Identities, 28-29 October, 2015 at Sala Conferenze, Palazzo Du Mesnil, Via Partenope 10/A. By Department of English, University of Naples, Italy. Paper Presented: Place (Re)Naming through Catchphrases in Nigeria: A Sociolinguistic Study. (xi) Conference of the English Studies Association of Nigeria (ESAN) held at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, 5-8 September, 2016. Paper Presented: Writer as Clairvoyant: A Linguistic-onomastic Study of Wole Soyinka’s The Road and Political Situation in Ibadan between 1999 and 2007. (xi) National Conference on General Studies. Theme: Current Trends in General Studies programme; held at Redeemer’s University, Ede, Nigeria , 30th-31st May, 2017. Paper presented: Proverbs as Names in Selected Drama Texts of Wole Soyinka-A Sociolinguistic Study. (xii) 7th TOFAC International Conference (July 3-5, 2017) held at Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, Nigeria. Paper Presented: African Onomastics: A Deconstructive Study of Selected Characters' Names in Femi Osofisan's Plays.

Q. PUBLICATIONS Chapters in Books (i) Odebode, I. (2005). A Pragmasociolinguistic Study of Names and Nicknames in Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman. In Olateju, M. and Oyeleye, L. (eds) (2005) Perspectives on Language and Literature. Ile-Ife: Obafemi Awolowo University Press Limited, Pp 199- 214. (ii) Odebode, I. (2009). Tense and Aspect in English. In Ibitoye, C and Adebileje, A. eds.(2009) Use of English and Communication Skills for Tertiary Institutions. General Studies Unit: Redeemer’s University, Pp. 41-53. (iii) Odebode, I. (2011). A Lexico-semantic Study of Names of characters in Wole Soyinka’s King Baabu . In Ayo Ogunsiji, Ayo Kehinde & Akin Odebunmi (eds) (2011). Language, Literature and Discourse Muenchen Germany:Lincom Europa Academic Publications. pp.79-99 (iv) Odebode, I. (2013). A Morpho-pragmatic Study of Selected Anglicized Abiku Names on Facebook. In Existentialism, Literature and the Humanities in Africa: Essays in Honour of Professor Benedict Mobayode Ibitokun. Chijioke Uwasomba, Adebayo Mosobalaje & Oluwole Coker (Eds) (2013). Gottingen: Germany: CUVILLIER VERLAG. Pp. 338-350. (v) Odebode, I. & Ajilore. O. (2014). "Academic and Business Writing" in Use of English I&II. Ede: Directorate of General Studies Programme, Redeemer's University. Pp. 149- 174 (vi) Odebode, I. (2014). "Comprehension and Summary" in Use of English I&II. Ede: Directorate of General Studies Programme, Redeemer's University. Pp. 121-128. Articles Published in Learned Journals (vii) Odebode, I. (2010). Demystifying the English Verb as an ESL Bugbear. Oye-Journal of Humanities, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State- Vol.XVI, June, 2010, 149-165. (viii) Odebode, I. (2010). Twins’ Naming among the Yoruba Nigerians: A Sociolinguistic Study. Onomastica Canadiana (Canadian Journal of Onomastic Studies) Vol. 92, No. 1 June, 2010, 39-52. (ix) Odebode, I. (2010). Naming Systems during Yoruba Wars: A Sociolinguistic Study. Names, the American Name Society’s Journal, Vol. 58 No. 4, Dec. 2010, 210-219 (x) Odebode, I. & Onadipe, A. (2011). Politeness Phenomenon in 'Abiku' Names among the Yoruba Nigerians: A Pragmatic Study. (with Onadipe A.) Journal of Cross Cultural Communication, Canada Vol 7, Number 4, Dec. 2011 (xi) Odebode, I. (2012). Pet naming as Protest’s Discourse in Polygamous Yoruba Homes: A Socio- pragmatic Study. Studies in Literature and Language. 4(1), 107- 113. April, 2012 (xii) Odebode, I. (2012). “Sociolinguistic Strategies in Marketing Discourse in Ibadan, Nigeria” Language in India Vol.12:2 February, 2012, ISSN 1930-2940, Pp. 565-577. (xiii) Odebode, I. & Onadipe, A. (2012). A Speech Act Analysis of Abiku Names among the Yoruba Nigerians. Language in India Vol.12:5 May, 2012, ISSN 1930-2940. Pp. 129-142 (xiv) Odebode, I. (2012). An Ethnographic Analysis of Names of Round Characters in Wole Soyinka’s The Strong Breed. Theory and Practice in Language Studies Issue 8 (2012), Vol. 2, No 9 Finland. (xv) Odebode, I. (2012). A Socio-pragmatic Study of Characters’ Names in Wole Soyinka’s The Strong Breed. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature (1)2 ,(2012) Pp. 127-137 ISSN 2200-3592 (Print), ISSN 2200-3452 (Online) Australia (xvi) Odebode, I. (2012). A Sociolinguistic Study of Fagunwa/Soyinka’s The Forest of a Thousand Daemons. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature (1) 3, September, 2012. (xvii) Odebode, I. (2015). A pragmatic analysis of Characters' Names in Ola Rotimi's The gods are not to blame. International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies http://ijhcschiefeditor.wix.com/ijhcs#!volume-2-issue-1/c1ko3 (xviii) Odebode, I. & Odesanya, A. (2015a). A Socio-pragmatic Analysis of Ahmed Yerima's Ade Ire. USA: Intrenational Journal of Language and Linguistics. Vol 2, No 1, www.ijllnet.com/journals/Vol_2_No_1_March_2015/11.pdf (xix) Odebode, I. & Eke-Opara, C. (March 2015). Ethnography of Communication in Ola Rotimi's the Gods Are Not To Blame: A Pragmatic Study. .British Journal of English Linguistics. Vol. 3, No 1, Pp 13-23 (xx) Odebode, I. & Dabi, O. (2015). Speech Acts in Billboard Messages of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Redemption Camp, Nigeria: A Pragmatic Study. English Linguistics Research. Vol 4, No 2. http://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/elr/article/view/6954. (xxi) Odebode, I. (2016). Ethnographic Analysis of Round Characters’ Onomastics in Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman. Marang Journal of Language and Literature, Vol. 27, No 16 University of Botswana. Pp. 49-62

R. REFEREES: Prof. Ademola Dasylva, Professor Ayo Ogunsiji Professor Adebola Adebileje Department of English, Department of English Department of English, University of Ibadan, , University of Ibadan Redeemer’s University, Ibadan, Oyo State. Ibadan, Oyo State Ede, Osun State.

12th June, 2017 ------Signature Date