John Olorunshola Kehinde

John Olorunshola Kehinde is a Nigerian scholar and researcher who earned a PhD in Literature-in-English in 2023. His research interests include literature and the environment, African material culture, gender studies, and the intersection of politics and literature in contemporary Africa. His PhD research examines the intersection of human communities and nonhuman ecologies, and how literature illuminates major ecological challenges of the twenty-first century. His recent publications in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Postcolonial Studies, and Human Ecology Review critique human tendencies toward environmental abuse, species exclusion, and human exceptionalism.

Recent publications:

Kehinde, J. O., & Egya, S. E. (2024). “Rooted in Earth”: Nature, traditionalism, and modernity in Joe Ushie’s A Reign of Locusts. Human Ecology Review, 28(1), 55–69.

Kehinde, J. O., & Egya, S. E. (2023). African ecocriticism, interspecies relationship, and Kyuka Lilymjok’s Twilight for a Vulture. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 31(3), 483–499.

Kehinde, J. O. (2022). Nature, environment, and activism in Nigerian literature: by Sule E. Egya, London and New York, Routledge, 2020. Postcolonial Studies, 26(3), 482–484.

Yahaya, N., Bello, A., & Kehinde, J. O. (2021). Fiction begets facts: An exploration of trauma of Biafran war in Chukwuemeka Ike's Sunset at Dawn. Voices: A Journal of English Studies, 21, 1–15.

Kehinde, J. O., & Egya, S. E. (2022). The political undertones of E. E. Sule’s What The Sea Told Me. ResearchGate.