Abimbola Adelakun

Biography

Abimbola A. Adelakun is an Associate Professor in the Department of African/African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She researches religion/spirituality and performance in Africa. She obtained a PhD from the department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin, along with a doctoral portfolio and Master’s degree from African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Her academic articles are currently being published with The Drama Review and Journal of World Christianity. Abimbola is the author of the forthcoming book Powerful Devices: The Politics and Praxis of Spiritual Warfare (Rutgers 2022). She writes a weekly column for PUNCH Newspapers, Nigeria’s most widely-read newspaper and is a co-editor with Bloomsbury Academic series, Black Literary and Cultural Expressions. Her research has been supported by the John Templeton Religion Trust, the AAUW, The American Academy of Religion, The Henry Luce Foundation, Frances and Sanger Mossiker Research in the Humanities, and the John Warfield Center.