Dr. BioDun J. Ogundayo

Degrees and Credentials

Ph.D. French and Francophone Literature and Cultures, State University of New York at Buffalo
M.A. French, Queen's University in Canada
M.A. French, University of Lagos, Nigeria
B.A. French, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Short Bio

Dr. Ogundayo is a Fulbright US Scholar. He is the director of the Africana Studies and Foreign Languages programs. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Caribbean Studies and Francophone literature at the University of The West Indies in Barbados. He has also taught at SUNY Buffalo; the University of Alberta, Canada; Queen’s University, Canada; Ogun State University (now Olabisi Onabanjo University), Nigeria; and at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. He has been teaching at Pitt-Bradford since January 2001.

Academic Focus

Africana Studies, African & Comparative Literature, Comparative Linguistics, Translation, African Spirituality

Dr. Ogundayo is fluent in Yoruba (his native tongue), French, English and Hausa, and holds reading fluency knowledge of Spanish, Italian, and some Ghanaian languages. He can also read and understand Russian. He also earned a certificate in elementary Chinese language and culture while on sabbatical in Barbados.