Bimbola Idowu-Faith

Bimbola Idowu-Faith teaches at the English Programme, Bowen University, Iwo, Nigeria. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the African Humanities Project (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), New York, USA. She conducts her research in stylistics with core interests in digital/literary/multimodal/film texts, humour, (im)politeness, and gender/women. She has published articles and book chapters in both national and international platforms. She is a member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA, UK) and currently serves as the Ambassador of the Association in Nigeria. Email: faith.idowu@bowen.edu.ng

Publications

Transformation of Higher Education Through Institutional Online Spaces
Transformation of Higher Education Through Institutional Online Spaces
Rotimi Taiwo, Bimbola Idowu-Faith, Simeon Ajiboye. © 2023. 332 pages.
The surge in the demand for higher education is closely connected with the liberalization and globalization of education. Websites and social media have been chosen for...
Style and Distinctive Uses of Language in Nigeria's First-Generation Private Universities' Vision and Mission Statements
Style and Distinctive Uses of Language in Nigeria's First-Generation Private Universities' Vision and Mission Statements
Bimbola Idowu-Faith. © 2023. 27 pages.
This chapter employs Systemic Functional Linguistics to account for style and distinctive language usage in the vision and mission statements of Nigeria's first-generation...
Speaking in the Free Marketplace of Ideas: The Stylistics of Humour in “Blogversations”
Speaking in the Free Marketplace of Ideas: The Stylistics of Humour in “Blogversations”
Bimbola Idowu-Faith. © 2016. 20 pages.
This chapter applies the mechanisms of conversational humour to interactional processes in blogs. With blogs giving room for uninhibited personal and interactional publishing...