Rotimi TaiwoRotimi Taiwo is a Professor of English and New Media Studies in the Department of English Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He holds Ph.D. from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (2003). He joined the University in January, 1997 as an Assistant Lcturer and rose through the ranks to become a professor in October, 2011. Between June 2008 and August 2009, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Post-doctoral Fellow at the Department of English, University of Freiburg, Germany. He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Munster, Germany (2014); Covenant University (2017-2018) and Olabisi Onabanjo University (2022-2023). In Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, he has served as the Coordinator, Use of English (2006-2008), Head of the Department English, (2018 - 2020), Editor-in-Chief, Ife Studies in English and Linguistics (2018-2020) He also served as the Editor of the Journal of English Scholars’ Association of Nigeria (2018-2020). He is currently member of editorial boards of Linguistik Online (Berne, Germany), International Journal of Language, Society and Culture (Tasmania, Australia), Covenant Journal of Language Studies (Ota, Nigeria) and CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics, among others. He has equally served as member of the Board of Regents (Council), Landmark University, Omu Aran (2019-2022). Over 100 of his papers, which are mainly in the areas of lexical studies, media, political, and religious discourse analysis, as well as pragmatics of online discourse, have appeared in reputable and high impact journals in his discipline. For almost two decades, Professor Taiwo has been working on computer-mediated discourse analysis and he has published extensively on this area of research. Some of his most outstanding works in this area of research are: Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction Volumes I & II (IGI Global, New York, 2010); Computer Mediated Discourse in Africa (Nova, New York, 2012), Language and Mobile Telecommunication in Nigeria: SMS as a Digital Age Lingual-cultural Expression (OAU Press, 2012); The Discourse of Digital Civic Engagement: Perspectives from the Developing World (New York: Nova Science, 2016) His current research is discursive marketisation in higher institutions’ online spaces in which he is editing a book titled: Transformation of Higher Education Through Institutional Online Spaces slated to be released by IGI Global, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA in the last quarter of 2023. Prof Taiwo has successfully supervised 30 M.A, 5 MPhil 8 PhD candidates. Outside the university setting, Professor Taiwo is currently the President Gideons International, Central West State Association, and Coordinator, Pastoral Support Group, All Souls’ Chapel (Interdenominational), OAU, Ile-Ife. Read More Read Less