Tolulope Adelabu joins the Department of African Cultural Studies at UW-Madison in 2024 as a PhD student with multidisciplinary professional experience and academic background in English Education, B.A., English Literature, M.Ed. (both from the University of Lagos, Nigeria) and Library and Information Studies, MA (UW-Madison).
She is interested in the informatization and technologization of African cultures, specifically in literature for children and young adults from their production, preservation, dissemination,and migration to their translation, readership, and accessibility.
She works with the African Studies Program as the special assistant for web, collections, and outreach. Among other exciting things, she is leading the creation of the Children’s Afro Lit Lab to reorganize the center’s diverse children’s resources into a widely accessible information platform that preserves and connects African stories with children and their caregivers, researchers, and other enthusiasts.
She was a junior Fulbright scholar in 2021 teaching Yoruba, one of the widely spoken indigenous African languages, to students at UW-Madison. She continues to support the sharing of African languages and cultures as a volunteer in her free time.