Fulbright Scholar in UI- Matthew H. Brown

Matthew H. Brown is a PhD candidate in the Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in theU.S.A. He earned his Master’s Degree in the same department, focusing primarily on postcolonial literary studies, though also studying linguistics and the Yoruba language. The title of his Master’s thesisis: Peripheral Destinations: The Chronotope of the Road as Postcolonial Space-Time in Soyinka and Serote. In 2009, Matthew won a Fulbright-Hays fellowship, as well as the Ebrahim Hussein fellowship,to study the Nigerian popular film industry. He will spend 10 months in Nigeria, 1 month in South Africa, and 1 month in London collecting information about the Nigerian film industry and its international distribution and consumption. Here at the University of Ibadan, Matthew is working with Dr. Duro Adeleke in the Department of Linguistics and African Languages and Dr. Hyginus Ekwuazi in theDepartment of Theater Arts. He and his wife, Sarah, will be at UI until mid December, 2010. Matthew enjoys practicing Yoruba, as well as eating iyan with egusi. Sarah’s favorite Nigerian food is moin-moin.

Fulbright Scholars on Campus

There are two Fulbright scholars on Campus . They are Regan BuckBardeen and Matthew H. Brown. Regan BuckBardeen is a doctoral Candidate from the Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles her research focus in UI is on Archival Materials.

Matthew Brown is a Doctoral Candidate from the University of Wisconsin- Madison, working on his PhD. Thesis on Nigerian Video films. He arrived in UI on 7 February, 2010. He will be in UI for a year.