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Dean, CAMASSProf. Gbemisola Adeoti
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Gbemisola Adeoti is a Visiting Professor in the Department of English, Chrisland University, Abeokuta. He was the Director of General Studies, and currently the Dean, College of Arts, Management and Social Sciences (CAMASS).

Adeoti is a Professor of Literary Studies from the English Department, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. He holds a PhD in English from the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. He was once a Reporter/Researcher with The News Magazine, Lagos, before joining the English Department of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife as a Graduate Assistant where he rose to become a Professor in 2010. His areas of teaching and research include: Dramatic Literature, Poetic Traditions, Popular Culture and Literary Theory/History. He has published widely in these areas in reputable scholarly outlets within and outside  Africa. 

 Adeoti was the Director, Institute of Cultural Studies, OAU, Ife,  from 2011 to 2015 and Dean, Faculty of Arts from 2015 to 2019. Some of his publications include Naked Soles, Stoning the Wind (poems), Voices Offstage: Nigerian Dramatists on Drama and Politics, Aesthetics of Adaptation in Contemporary Nigerian Drama, Nigerian Video Film in Yoruba and Politics and the Urban Experience in Postcolonial West African Literature. His Inaugural Lecture entitled: Literature and the Art of Shaving A Man’s Head in His Absence was delivered on the 26th of May, 2015.

Adeoti was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the Workshop Theatre, School of English, University of Leeds, United Kingdom in 2008 and a Postdoctoral Fellow of the African Humanities Program in 2009. In 2012, he was awarded the Presidential Fellowship of the African Studies Association (ASA), Philadelphia, in USA.

He is a member of Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA); Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), and Fellow, Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists (SONTA). He is the General Editor of Ife Studies in African Literature and the Arts (ISALA), apart from serving as a Reviewer and member of Editorial Advisory Boards of several local and foreign Journals.