Ifeoluwa Aboluwade is a literary scholar with a background in imperial and literary history, early modern English theatre, critical digital humanities, (trans)cultural translation and adaptation, black diaspora studies, postcolonial literary criticism, and gender and intersectionality. She works at the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence and is a lecturer at the University of Bayreuth. Ifeoluwa has received many international awards and fellowships, such as Fulbright and DAAD scholarships, most recently receiving the Shakespeare Association of America-Folger Shakespeare Library Short Term Fellowship (2022/2023).

At gd:c, Ifeoluwa is investigating the histories, patterns and genealogies (dis)connecting Shakespearean drama and early modern West Africa through the topoi of the trickster and warrior. Drawing on diverse texts, the project shows that comparing tricksters and warriors across both literary cultures engenders a deeper understanding of their historical and ongoing entanglements, recasting the significations and transcultural spectres that haunt Shakespeare. It will also illuminate the tension between absence and presence of early modern English performances, especially in terms of race, gender, and class.