Titilola Aiyegbusi

PhD Candidate

Campus

Areas of Interest

  • Black Canadian literature
  • Life writing
  • Digital humanities

Biography

My research examines the portrayal of racial identities in Black Canadian life writing. By comparing socio-psychological theories on Black identity formation with “reality” as portrayed in nonfictional works of Black Canadian authors, I explore extents to which these narratives corroborate or conflict with existing identity theories and models. A second stream of research I also engage with is digital humanities (DH). I am interested in understanding the relationship between the spread of DH and the economic state of devfeloping countries, particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa. Currently, I am investigating the digital culture of developing communities with the goal of teasing out explanations for the divide between digital literacy and digital humanities activities in these spaces.

List of Publications

Aiyegbusi, Babalola Titilola. “Decolonizing Digital Humanities.” Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities, edited by Elizabeth Losh and Jacqueline Wernimont. University of Minnesota Press, 2018, pp. 436-446.

Babalola, Titilola. "The Digital Humanities and Digital Literacy: Understanding the Digital Culture in Nigeria." Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 5.1, 2014.