Sola Adeyemi is Associate Professor of Drama, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is a Poet, Dramatist and Critic. His research centres on world theatres and performance studies; African Literary Studies; intercultural performance culture; postcolonial literature and theatre (and the themes of decolonial and Global South studies); and diasporic African theatre in its exploration of the politics of identity. Methodologically rooted in dramatic criticism and the practice of theatre from the European and African classics, he approaches such work from a sociocultural, political and postmodernist standpoint. He is also interested in questions of collectivity within theatre, the intersections of performance and culture, and experiments in the performer-spectator-spect-actor relationship.

His teaching and supervision are in Literature, Gender Studies, World Theatre/s, African Theatre and Performance (with special focus on West Africa and South Africa), Postcolonial Literature (and Global South Studies, and Theatre History/History of the Theatre.